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INIA National Institute for Agriculture and Food Research and Technology. INIA.
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INIANational Institute for Agriculture and Food Research and Technology
INIA INIA is an autonomous Public Research Organisation and programme owner, belonging to the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. Its objectives are the programming, the coordination and the assignment of resources to scientific and technological activities, their monitoring and evaluation and the undertaking of research and technological development functions, including the technological transfer in Agriculture and Food sectors. The INIA distributes its activity between three major areas: - As a public research organization. - As the sectoral coordinator of food and agricultural research with the autonomous regions. - As a manager body for international cooperation in matters of agricultural science and technology
INIA AS OWNER OF NATIONAL RESEARCH PROGRAMMES COOPERATIVE SYSTEM INIA-AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITIES 17 General Directorates for Agricultural Research from the Autonomous Communities INIA COOPERATIVE SYSTEM INIA- AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITIES
Plant Protection Animal Breeding Animal Reproduction Food Technology Environmental Research Biotechnology CENTRES INIA AS A R&D ORGANIZATION CISA Animal Health Research Centre (Madrid) CIFOR Forestry Research Centre (Madrid) CRF Plant Genetic Resources Centre (Madrid) DEPARTMENTS Organic Farming R+D Centre (Cáceres) Iberian Pig R+D Centre (Badajoz) Food Quality Research Centre (Soria) Biotechnology and Genomics Plant Research (Madrid) Centre Agroenergetic Crops (Teruel)
INIA AS A R&D ORGANIZATION Research personnel (2007) Researchers 277 TOTAL Research Personnel 905 Funding (2007): 20.32% 45.5% 18.13% 16.06%
INIA competences in international relations • To represent the Ministry of Science and Technology in the international scientific and technological organizations. • To promote international cooperation. • To establish agreements with public and private international organizations. • To coordinate and cooperate with European research programmes and with other international research programmes.