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The 2021-2030
Research Focus Program

Climate change, drought, diversification and digitalization are some of the challenges that South Tyrol’s agriculture and food processing companies will have to face in the coming years. For this reason, Laimburg Research Centre has drawn up a Focus...

Climate change, drought, diversification and digitalization are some of the challenges that South Tyrol’s agriculture and food processing companies will have to face in the coming years. For this reason, Laimburg Research Centre has drawn up a Focus Programme up to 2030, which groups its research activities into five major key topics.

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The creation process – a participatory approach Developing a ten-year program is no easy task. For this reason, Laimburg Research Centre undertook in a two-year-long process to include a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. The goal was...

The creation process – a participatory approach

Developing a ten-year program is no easy task. For this reason, Laimburg Research Centre undertook in a two-year-long process to include a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. The goal was to collect as much information as possible on the major challenges and topical issues facing South Tyrol’s agricultural and food sectors and then to determine which of those issues Laimburg Research Centre is capable of directly addressing.

In several workshops, the Centre’s coworkers identified the major challenges for the next ten years in their individual fields. Parallel to that, the Centre’s senior staff, representatives from the Provincial Department of Agriculture, and members of the Advisory Board and the Scientific Advisory Board zeroed in on possible topics with a view towards finding an overall strategic approach for the Centre and identifying major international trends.

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Five key topics 

ecological & economic