AGRI-net will foster collaborations between leading cross-disciplinary groups and encourage partnerships with “end-users”. This will provide opportunities to further develop high-impact multidisciplinary research targeted at one of the world’s grand challenges, Crop Sustainability, and will strengthen the development of next-generation solutions for the agri-sciences.
This type of cross fertilisation helps to provide a realistic and accurate problem-led pull for newer technologies and inserts an additional technical push into established technologies.
This will be achieved by:
- Providing a unique communication forum for academia, industry and government agencies
- Hosting showcase 'show & tell' events, scientific creativity for 'sandpit' events, industrial based conferences and seminars
- Providing access to a variety of web-based systems, including a state-of-the-art virtual networking environment, which can be used for meetings, discussions and collaboration between participants in real time without need for co-location
- Providing a platform to steer future research and policy directions
- Creating opportunities to develop high impact multidisciplinary research e.g. by funding feasibility studies based upon ideas and strategic themes arising from the network interactions.
- Encouraging external outreach to engage with the general public. This is essential given the societal impact of the global challenge that the network is addressing.
Contact
For website related questions please contact agri-net@imperial.ac.uk.
For any other enquiries please contact Dr. Laura Barter at l.barter@imperial.ac.uk.