Explore the words cloud of the MIRA project. It provides you a very rough idea of what is the project "MIRA" about.
The following table provides information about the project.
Coordinator |
KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET
Organization address contact info |
Coordinator Country | Denmark [DK] |
Total cost | 3˙936˙528 € |
EC max contribution | 3˙936˙528 € (100%) |
Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.3.1. (Fostering new skills by means of excellent initial training of researchers) |
Code Call | H2020-MSCA-ITN-2017 |
Funding Scheme | MSCA-ITN-ETN |
Starting year | 2017 |
Duration (year-month-day) | from 2017-12-01 to 2021-11-30 |
Take a look of project's partnership.
# | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET | DK (KOBENHAVN) | coordinator | 870˙245.00 |
2 | KONINKLIJKE NEDERLANDSE AKADEMIE VAN WETENSCHAPPEN - KNAW | NL (AMSTERDAM) | participant | 510˙748.00 |
3 | AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DEINVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS | ES (MADRID) | participant | 495˙745.00 |
4 | THE JAMES HUTTON INSTITUTE | UK (DUNDEE) | participant | 273˙287.00 |
5 | UNIVERSITE DE NEUCHATEL | CH (NEUCHATEL) | participant | 265˙226.00 |
6 | CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS | FR (PARIS) | participant | 262˙875.00 |
7 | KOPPERT BV | NL (BERKEL EN RODENRIJS) | participant | 255˙374.00 |
8 | UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT | NL (UTRECHT) | participant | 255˙374.00 |
9 | FRIEDRICH-SCHILLER-UNIVERSITAT JENA | DE (JENA) | participant | 249˙216.00 |
10 | INOQ GMBH | DE (SCHNEGA) | participant | 249˙216.00 |
11 | RHEINISCHE FRIEDRICH-WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAT BONN | DE (BONN) | participant | 249˙216.00 |
Plants are intimately associated with a diversity of beneficial microorganisms in their root zone, some of which can enhance the plant’s resistance to insect pests. Thus, the use of Microbe-induced Resistance (MiR) to reduce pest losses in agriculture has emerged as a highly promising possibility to improve crop resilience and reduce use of harmful pesticides. European companies have therefore started to develop and market beneficial microbes. However, MiR appears to be strongly context-dependent, with reduced benefits under certain biotic and abiotic conditions and in some crop varieties. Further, it is a challenge to deliver and ensure stable associations of beneficial microbes and plants, and avoid undesired effects on beneficial insects. Thus we absolutely must improve our understanding of MiR mechanisms and context-dependency, in order to improve context stability of MiR and promote the use of MiR for crop protection. Our MiRA project will train 15 ESRs in basic and applied research on context-dependency of MiR, mechanisms, and impacts on plant performance and other biocontrol organisms. We will use this understanding to improve our ability to predict the effectiveness of MiR under different conditions, to select plant and microbial strains with improved context-stability, and to develop better methods for the formulation of microbial inoculants and their application in agriculture. Finally, we will analyse economic prospects and constraints for MiR development and use. To achieve these goals, we have assembled a consortium of 11 academic institutions and 6 companies, including microbial inoculant producers and agricultural advisors, with complementary skills in basic and applied research and innovation. Our ESRs will be trained within this multi-sectoral interdisciplinary network for a future career in research, product and service development in European horticulture and agriculture, pushing boundaries in European research and innovation.
Project website available | Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. | 2020-01-30 10:25:21 |
Take a look to the deliverables list in detail: detailed list of MIRA deliverables.
Are you the coordinator (or a participant) of this project? Plaese send me more information about the "MIRA" project.
For instance: the website url (it has not provided by EU-opendata yet), the logo, a more detailed description of the project (in plain text as a rtf file or a word file), some pictures (as picture files, not embedded into any word file), twitter account, linkedin page, etc.
Send me an email (fabio@fabiodisconzi.com) and I put them in your project's page as son as possible.
Thanks. And then put a link of this page into your project's website.
The information about "MIRA" are provided by the European Opendata Portal: CORDIS opendata.