Mission
The “GREEN-IT Bioresources for Sustainability” Unit addresses the challenge of ensuring food security and adequate resources for a growing human population, by deciphering the basic mechanisms of plant-environment interactions and translating knowledge into innovation for plant breeding, while guaranteeing environmental sustainability.
ORIGINS & DEVELOPMENT
At its foundation GREEN-IT was raised to address the key societal challenge of Sustainable Development and Biological Resources, integrating labs from ITQB NOVA, iBET and IGC, and focusing on two thematic lines, one dealing with plant sciences and the other with green chemistry and microbiology for sustainability and circular economy.
Since 2020, the GREEN-IT Research Unit is fully focused on plant sciences, in a farm-to-lab-to-farm approach, investing in 3 pillars: research, education and tech transfer. GREEN-IT is now firmly grounded on the Oeiras AGRO-TECH Campus (including ITQB NOVA, iBET and INIAV researchers) and additionally gathers members from IGC (also in Oeiras Campus) and INSA (in Lisbon).
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AGRO-TECH ((jointly created by the Ministries of Agriculture, and Science & Technology) is the biggest consortium in the country and the first research and innovation Campus devoted to agro-food, veterinary and forestry (from the bench to the field). |
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Presently GREEN-IT brings together plant research teams to contribute to achieve the 2nd, 15th, 13th, 12th, 4th and 17th UN Sustainable Development goal and the 2nd European Societal Challenge. A cross-talk was set among agronomists, biologists, biochemists and chemical engineers, in a field-to-bench-to-field approach, to uncover basic mechanisms in plant-environment interactions, translating knowledge into agricultural applications while protecting the environment.
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ORGANIGRAM
The R&D Unit GREEN-IT - Bioresources for Sustainability is funded by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
