Projeto Portugal 2020

Northern region of Portugal has several opportunities and economic potential based in local-economy exploitation, particularly agro-food resources from animal production (meat and milk), vegetables, fruits, olives, nuts to wine and native flora & medicinal plants. The undergoing efforts of UTAD researchers, as well as other´s from public and private institutions of R&D, in the last decades have been fundamental to increment technological value of the region mainly through the development and dissemination of innovation and know-how. The competitiveness of the region has been also accomplished through new methods, technologies and more environmental friendly and efficiently processes. Nonetheless, this achievement implies continuous efforts in research and development; this is always a non-finished work. Therefore, within the INTERACT global proposal, the line 1 - Innovation for Sustainable Agro-food Chains (ISAC) is in articulation with two other lines (2 - BioEconomy and Sustainabili