This section includes the relationships and partnerships that the PhD Program maintains with other institutions, whether national or international, public or private.
Scientific and technological research in specialized centers
The University of Almería develops diverse research lines and technologies with various research centers specialized in intensive agriculture; these are described in the document that can be accessed via the following link.
Researchers from these centers participate in the protected agriculture PhD Program.
UAL - ANECOOP Foundation´s Center for Innovation and Technology
The UAL-ANECOOP Foundation’s Center for Innovation and Technology was created in 2004 to coordinate research and experimentation between ANECOOP and the University of Almería.
The aim of the Foundation is to contribute to the modernization and improved competitiveness of the agricultural sector through research, innovation, and technology transfer to agricultural producers. In this sense, the UAL-ANECOOP Foundation presents an ideal structure for a public and a private entity to work together in search of a common objective.
The research center has been collaborating with companies in the sector for more than thirteen years, proposing and executing projects that include new products and processes of agricultural interest in the commercial or pre-commercial phase.
The main research lines are:
- Greenhouse Climate Control: innovation in natural ventilation as a way to make the greenhouse agri-system sustainable and profitable.
- Hormonal bioactivators study.
- Gathering field data and analysis for decision-making regarding the consumption of desalinated and well water.
- Soil fumigation and disinfection: technological alternatives based on biosolarization.
- Sustainable management of nitrogen fertilizer in greenhouse horticultural crops and use of optical sensors and models to optimize nitrogen management.
- Study and evaluation of environmental parameters that affect workers in raspa and amagado greenhouses.
- Functional genomics in zucchini.
- Analysis, selection and agronomic characterization of the flowering process in altered tomato mutants.
- Water and soil fertility in organic crops.
- Development and validation of pesticide analysis methods and coordination of the application of those methods.
- Study and evaluation of the application techniques for phytosanitary products in greenhouse peppers.
- Influence of premature sexing of papaya on fruit production and quality.
IFAPA (Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training Institute)
La Mojonera Center, Almería
The Andalusian Government Center, attached to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development, whose main mission is to contribute to the modernization of the agricultural, fishing and food sectors through research, development, technology transfer and training, to ensure the sustainability of these production sectors.
At its La Mojonera Center, IFAPA develops research lines within its thematic areas: Agri-food Engineering and Technology, Genomics and Biotechnology, Agriculture and the Environment, and Sustainable Plant Protection. The main work lines are:
- The improvement of greenhouse production through the efficient use of natural and technological resources. The application of renewable energy in greenhouse climate control.
- New genomic resources for the development of horticultural genetic improvement.
- Irrigation and fertilization optimization. Fertigation and the management of non-conventional water resources (regenerated and desalinated). Irrigation management in organic farming.
- Etiology and diagnosis, epidemiology and the control of diseases caused by fungi and viruses in protected horticultural crops. Diseases in crops without soil. Biological and integrated control of mycosis in horticultural crops.
- Integrated pest and disease management in agri-ecosystems; Conservation biological control; Conservation and implementation of ecological infrastructures that enhance the establishment of beneficial species in crops.