Project Portugal 2020

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Summary

The 2020 European Strategy and the 2010 proposal of the European Commission for unifying innovation were contextualized for the Azores by the RIS3 strategy. Considering the three priority areas defined for the Azores: i) Agriculture, Livestock and Agroindustry; ii) Fisheries and Sea and iii) Tourism, the eAZFlora project is in line with the European guidelines for innovation and falls unquestionably in the Tourism regional priority area. The project?s main objectives are: 1) Develop a scientific Flora of the Azores with reviewed and updated taxonomic data; 2) Revise doubtful taxa through morphological and molecular analysis; 3) Develop an electronic database to store the flora contents available through an online interface ? eAZFlora website; 4) Develop a program for smartphones and tablets (app) to interact with the Flora database ? eAZFlora app. At the end of the project we expect to have produced scientific content that will feed a customized eAZFlora website and a specifically developed mobile app that