BovINEBeef Innovation Network Europe
BovINESGGW is the oldest life sciences university in Poland. For four years, the University has ranked highly in the Polish university league tables. In 2015, the University was recognized as one of the top 100 universities in the world for agriculture and forestry (QS World University Rankings – Top Universities, 2015). SGGW won first place in the competition of the Academic Centre of Information (ACI) for “The most innovative and creative university in Poland” (2010, 2011) and “The most innovative and creative university in Poland in creating career prospects” (ACI competitions in 2012-2014). For years, the University has taken first place in the assessment of students (“University Friendly for Students”). Since, 2012, SGGW have carried out 140 research projects across diverse topics financed by the National Science Centre and the Ministry of Agriculture and Higher Education. Some of the projects contained included international cooperation.
WULF-SGGW has experience in commercialising research results. In order to strengthen the institutional support for integrating scientific research into business, the University created the Centre for Innovation and Technology Transfer. In addition, issues of economic cooperation are dealt with by the Rector’s Plenipotentiary for Economic Co-operation together with faculty representatives. SGGW has two research laboratories accredited by the Polish Centre for Accreditation (i.e. the Laboratory of Food Evaluation and Health Diagnosis and the WULS Analytical Centre) where commercial services are also offered to consumer organizations, public prosecutors, customs office, etc. 3 The University has a strong commercial focus and developed capability in building relations between science and business. From January 2013 through May 2017, it has signed over 300 cooperation agreements with business support organizations. Among the entities cooperating with WULS are both large companies (domestic and international corporations) and micro-enterprises. Moreover, the University is a member of nine clusters and networking agreements. One of the latter is conducted by the Faculty of Economic Sciences, the cluster leader (Cluster of Innovation in Agribusiness). In 2009-2017, 108 inventions and utility models were patented. The patented solutions concerned e.g. improvement of the efficiency of cultivation of plants and animal husbandry, food technology and human nutrition, functional additives to animal feed, renewable energy development, construction and environmental engineering, materials science and solid wood and materials.
WULF-SGGW will be represented in this project primarily by the Faculty of Animal Sciences (FAS), especially the Department of Animal Breeding (DAB), however, expertise and knowledge from researchers from across the university will be leveraged to deliver the project aims. Since 2015 the Faculty of Animal Sciences was composed of four departments and 2 independent laboratories: DAB, Department of Genetics and Animal Breeding, Department of Animal Nutrition and Biotechnology, and Department Biology of the Animal Environment, Ichtiobiology and Fisheries Laboratory and Laboratory of Insects. Research staff: over 70. Student number: over 1,100 studying at 3 independent disciplines: Animal Production; Exotic, Game and Laboratory Animals Breeding and Animal Bioengineering.
The DAB focuses on researches and innovation in farm animal production, especially cattle breeding and husbandry. Staff in the department have extensive experience of working in interdisciplinary projects across diverse topics (e.g. bovine genomics, beef cattle nutrition, cattle health and welfare, etc.) as well as cooperation with other organisation involved in animal production in Poland, and can leverage such expertise for the benefit of this project. The department will be represented in this project by Prof Tomasz Przysucha and Dr hab. Marcin Gołębiewski.
SGGW will work with the Polish Beef Association to facilitate the establishment of a national beef network in Poland through its activities in WP3- 6 where it will help to identify Polish beef farmers’ priority needs, identify good practices in Poland, and facilitate knowledge exchange between farmers and academic experts in Poland and between Polish and other European farmers trans-nationally. It will also use its dissemination channels to ensure effective dissemination of research results to end-users and to communicate about the project at national and EU level to a range of stakeholders including farmers, industry and policymakers (WP7). It will be involved in WP2 (Network formation & Multi-Actor Approach) (providing insights as a university with a particular focus on Animal Sciences and also availing of training) to ensure an effective multi-actor approach within BovINE
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 rural
renaissance programme | Project No: 862590 under call H2020-RUR-2019-15