Internacional Projects

Currently active projects where Integrated Members of GreenUPorto participate or coordinate.

2023 – 2029

WINTOUR - International Master on Wine Tourism Transitions and Innovations

Financed by

Erasmus+, UE

Role of GreenUPorto members

Jorge Queiroz

Keywords

wine, training, formação, enotourism, Master course

http://www.wintour-master.eu/en/

2024 – 2028

LivingSoiLL - Healthy Soil to Permanent Crops Living Labs

Financed by

Horizon Europe

Role of GreenUPorto members

Ruth Pereira, João Pacheco, Anabela Cachada, Tatiana Andreani

Keywords

sustainable agriculture, grapevine, vineyards, soil quality, soil quality indicators

2023 – 2027

AGRIFOOD4FUTURE: Centers of Vocational Excellence in Smart Farming and Sustainable Food Systems

Financed by

Erasmus+, UE

Role of GreenUPorto members

Ruth Pereira

Keywords

sustainable agriculture, smart agriculture, Agricultura sustentável, Sustainable agriculture, good agricultural practices, training, formação

https://agrifood4future.com

2023 – 2027

PHENET-EU - Tools and methods for extended plant PHENotyping and Enviro Typing services of European Research Infrastructures

Financed by

Horizon Europe

Role of GreenUPorto members

Ruth Pereira

Keywords

agricultural soils, smart agriculture, Agricultura sustentável, Sustainable agriculture, risk assessment, plant health, environmental safety

https://www.phenet.eu/en

2023 – 2026

BlueWWater - Control, tratamiento y reducción de microplásticos y contaminantes emergentes en aguas residuales urbanas y en el medio costero transfronterizo

Financed by

INTERREG VI (POCTEP) 2021-2027, UE

Role of GreenUPorto members

Keywords

risk assessment, environmental safety, water

https://bluewwater.eu/

2023 – 2026

CRISPit - BRIDGING FUNDAMENTAL KNOWLEDGE & NOVEL TECHNOLOGY TO INCREASE RICE HEAT TOLERANCE

Financed by

Horizon Europe

Role of GreenUPorto members

Luís Gustavo Pereira

Keywords

Agricultura sustentável, Sustainable agriculture, stress tolerance, rice, arroz

https://www.fc.up.pt/crispit/

2023 – 2026

ENOTOUR - Creating a Multifunctional training platform to transform the business model of regional enotourism industries

Financed by

Erasmus+, UE

Role of GreenUPorto members

Jorge Queiroz

Keywords

training, formação, vineyards, industry, enotourism

2023 – 2026

MEDDIETMENUS4CAMPUS - PROMOTING STAKEHOLDER ADHERENCE TO MEDITERRANEAN DIET IN CAMPUS THROUGH SOCIAL MARKETING STRATEGIES

Financed by

PRIMA - Partnersip for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area

Role of GreenUPorto members

Ada Rocha

Keywords

nutritional quality, Mediterranean, Food, Alimentação, Health

2023 – 2026

Wheatbiome: Unravelling the potential of the wheat microbiome for the development of healthier, more sustainable and resilient wheat-derived food & feed products

Financed by

Horizon Europe

Role of GreenUPorto members

Ruth Pereira, Susana MP Carvalho

Keywords

sustainable agriculture, nutritional quality, good agricultural practices, stress tolerance, Food, Alimentação, Health, Wheat, Trigo

https://www.wheatbiome-project.eu

2022 – 2025

Biology of xylem-sap feeding insect vectors and potential vectors of Xylella fastidiosa in Portugal

Financed by

EFSA – European Food Safety Authorithy

Role of GreenUPorto members

Ana Aguiar

Keywords

insetos vetores, risk assessment, plant health

2020 – 2025

RADONORM - Managing Risk from Radon and NORMs

Financed by

EU Framework Program for Research and Innovation H2020. Programme: NFRP-2019-2020 (Ref. 90009)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Ruth Pereira (Researcher; responsible at FCUP)

Keywords

risk assessment, naturally occurring radionuclides, radon

https://www.radonorm.eu/

2022 – 2024

2Improve: Boost the potential of resistant indigenous plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria to improve crop productivity and soil quality in Estarreja and Baixo Vouga Lagunar affected agroecosystems

Financed by

Labex DRIIHM & Réseau des Observatoire Hommes-Milieux – Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (ROHM-CNRS). (OHM-E/2022/Proj. 1)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Sirine Bouguerra (Coordinator or PI), João Oliveira-Pacheco (Researcher), Ruth Pereira (Researcher).

Keywords

agricultural soils, metal(loids), salinization, maize, bioinoculants, productivity

2020 – 2023

COPPEREPLACE – Development and implementation of new technologies, products and strategies to reduce copper applications in vineyards and to remediate contaminated soils in the SUDOE region

Financed by

European Commission: Interreg SUDOE (Ref. SOE4/P1/E10000)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Ruth Pereira (responsible at GreenUPorto/FCUP)

Keywords

copper contamination, copper substitutes, soil vulnerability

http://coppereplace.com/pt/projeto-coppereplace/

2020 – 2023

TERRATECH – masTERs course on smArt Agriculture TECHnologies

Financed by

European Commission – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency. Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliances (Ref. 621568-EPP-1-2020-1-PT-EPPKA2-KA)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Ruth Pereira (Coordinator or PI); Susana Carvalho (Vice-coordinator); Anabela Cachada, Sofia Oliveira, Verónica Nogueira, Tânia Fernandes (Team Members)

Keywords

IoT, Master course, sensoring, smart agriculture

https://www.terratechmsc.eu/

2019 – 2023

PRE-HLB – Preventing HLB epidemics for ensuring citrus survival in Europe

Financed by

H2020 EU 3.2.1.1.

Role of GreenUPorto members

A. Aguiar, J. Neto (Team members; WP3 and WP6)

Keywords

Aurantoideae, biotechnology, citrus, epidemiology, genomics, Huanglongbing disease, insect vector, psyllid

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/223208/factsheet/en

2019 – 2023

SUSINCHAIN - SUStainable INsect CHAIN

Financed by

Horizon Europe

Role of GreenUPorto members

Luís M. Cunha

Keywords

, industry, Food, Alimentação, Insects

https://susinchain.eu/

2020 – 2021

@10 years - Ten years of OHM: data compilation for a holistic environmental and human health risk assessment

Financed by

Labex DRIIHM & Réseau des Observatoire Hommes-Millieux – Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (ROHM-CNRS) (Ref: OHM-Estarreja/2019/Proj.1)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Ruth Pereira (Researcher)

Keywords

risk assessment, chemical complex, groundwater contamination

2020 – 2021

Is4RISK – derivation of soil reference values for potentially toxic elements (As, Pb and Cu) by using a regosol representive of Estarreja soils

Financed by

Labex DRIIHM & Réseau des Observatoire Hommes-Millieux – Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (ROHM-CNRS). (OHM-E/2020/Proj. 7)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Ruth Pereira (Coordinator or PI)

Keywords

metals, risk assessment, soil quality guidelines

2020 – 2021

SSTemWater: Sources and Short-term TEMporal evolution of GroundWATER contamination in Estarreja region

Financed by

Labex DRIIHM & Réseau des Observatoire Hommes-Millieux – Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (ROHM-CNRS) (Ref: OHM-E/2020/Proj.2)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Ruth Pereira (Researcher)

Keywords

risk assessment, groundwater contamination, chemical complex

2017 – 2020

AgriNuPes - Integrated monitoring and control of water, nutrients and plant protection products towards a sustainable agricultural sector

Financed by

ERA-NET WaterWorks2015 (Ref. WaterJPI/002/2015)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Susana Carvalho (Work Package Coordinator – WP5); A Aguiar, M Santos, R Pereira (Team Members)

Keywords

fertigation, greenhouse horticulture, sensors, soilless cultivation, sustainable agriculture

http://www.agrinupes.eu

2017 – 2020

Expressão da ciência nas políticas públicas relativas a obesidade: um estudo cross cultural

Financed by

Internacional // MCTI, CNPQ Brasil (Protocolo do SIGProj: 282053.1429.46159.07092017)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Ana Pinto de Moura (PT Team leader); LM Cunha (Team member)

Keywords

obesogenic environment, public policies, text mining

http://sigproj1.mec.gov.br/apoiados.php?projeto_id=282053

2017 – 2020

VISCA – Vineyards Integrated Smart Climate Application

Financed by

H2020-EU-Innovation action (Grant agreement No. 730253)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Jorge Queiroz (FCUP coordinator); A Aguiar, A Carneiro, I Cabral, SMP Carvalho

Keywords

climate change, decision support systems, grapevine, modelling, wine

http://www.visca.eu/

2018 – 2019

MATiSSe - Microplastics on AgriculTural SoilS: assessment of their impact on physical, chemical and biological soil properties

Financed by

Internacional // CNRS – OHM-Estarreja, Paris, France

Role of GreenUPorto members

Andrés Rodríguez Seijo (Project Coordinator); A Cachada, R Pereira (Team members)

Keywords

agricultural soils, contamination, soil, microplastic

http://ohm-estarreja.in2p3.fr/pt/projetos/details/3/1531

2017 – 2018

NAMELESs - Nanomaterials for the Remediation of agriculture Metal contaminated soils surrounding the Estarreja chemical complex

Financed by

Internacional // CNRS – OHM-Estarreja, Paris, France (Ref. OHM-E/2017/Proj.3)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Ruth Pereira (Project Coordinator); A Cachada, A Rodríguez Seijo (Team members)

Keywords

agricultural soils, contamination, soil, metals

http://www.driihm.fr/projets/details/80/995

National Projects

Currently active projects where Integrated Members of GreenUPorto participate or coordinate.

2023 – 2026

ProCardo - Characterization of Cardo aspartic proteinases in the promotion of Serra da Estrela cheese

Financed by

Promove BPI la Caixa

Role of GreenUPorto members

Cláudia Pereira

Keywords

industry, Food, Alimentação, cheese, Serra da Estrela, fisiologia

https://www.procardo.pt/

2023 – 2025

CC&NUTS - CHESTNUT VS CLIMATE CHANGE: the role of stress priming and mycorrhization

Financed by

Promove BPI la Caixa

Role of GreenUPorto members

Fernanda Fidalgo

Keywords

climate change, stress tolerance, castanheiro

2022 – 2025

BFree - Biocontrol of Fruits and Vegetables

Financed by

PRR Agendas Mobilizadoras

Role of GreenUPorto members

Susana MP Carvalho

Keywords

sustainable agriculture, horticulture, plant pathology, fungal plant pathogens, plant health, Food, Alimentação, fruit quality, fruit, vegetables

2022 – 2025

BioShoes4All – Innovation and empowerment of the footwear industry for a sustainable bioeconomy

Financed by

PRR Agendas Mobilizadoras

Role of GreenUPorto members

Ruth Pereira

Keywords

industry, biotecnologia

https://bioshoesforall.pt/

2022 – 2025

VIIAFOOD - Plataforma de Valorização, Industrialização e Inovação comercial para o AgroAlimentar

Financed by

PRR Agendas Mobilizadoras

Role of GreenUPorto members

Luís M. Cunha

Keywords

Agricultura sustentável, industry, Food, Alimentação

https://viiafood.pt/

2022 – 2024

Botrytis-XTalk: eXploring host-fungal crossTalk for early and sustainable control of grey mould

Financed by

FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology; Ref. PTDC/ASP-PLA/4478/2021)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Susana MP Carvalho (PI); Tânia R. Fernandes (Co-PI)

Keywords

sustainable agriculture, , plant pathology, fungal plant pathogens, strawberry

2021 – 2023

LeguCon - Consórcio para as Leguminosas - aumento da produção de leguminosas para um consumo mais sustentável

Financed by

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Programa Gulbenkian Desenvolvimento Sustentável (Grant no. 238442)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Susana Carvalho (Member of the Advisory Board)

Keywords

pulses, legumes, good agricultural practices, nutrient use efficiency, family agriculture

https://legucon.pt/

2021 – 2023

S4Hort_Soil&Food – Sustainable practices for Soil health & horticultural products quality improvement in the Entre Douro e Minho Region

Financed by

Norte2020 - Sistema de Apoio à Investigação Científica e Tecnológica – ‘Projetos Estruturados de I&D&I’ Horizonte Europa (NORTE-45-2020-75) (Ref. NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000074)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Ruth Pereira (Project Coordinator); Susana Carvalho, Luís Cunha, Fernanda Fidalgo, Sirine Bouguerra, Cristiano Soares, Joana Serrão (Team Members)

Keywords

horticultural growing media, horticulture, recycling

https://s4hort.pt/

2021 – 2023

SNAP - Sustainable Management and Control of Agro-Production Systems

Financed by

Norte2020 - Sistema de Apoio à Investigação Científica e Tecnológica – ‘Projetos Estruturados de I&D&I’ Horizonte Europa (NORTE-45-2020-75) (Ref. NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000085)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Susana Carvalho (Coordinator Research Line 1); Luís Cunha (Team Member)

Keywords

plant factories, vertical farms, LEDs, aromatic and medicinal plants, smart agriculture, process systems engineering

2020 – 2023

AGRIFOOD-XXI

Financed by

FEDER (ERDF)/Norte 2020 (Portugal 2020) (REF. NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000041)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Ruth Pereira, Susana Carvalho, Luís Cunha (Team Members)

Keywords

plant elicitors, soil quality, soil quality indicators, vineyards, nutrient use efficiency, kiwifruit, tomato

2020 – 2023

cLabel+ – Innovative, “clean label”, natural, nutritious and consumer-oriented Foods

Financed by

PRR Agendas Mobilizadoras

Role of GreenUPorto members

Luís M. Cunha

Keywords

nutritional quality, industry, Food, Alimentação, Health, Insects, consumer

https://cleanlabelplus.pt/

2020 – 2023

GreenShoes 4.0

Financed by

Agência Nacional de Inovação S.A. (ANI). Program: Portugal2020/COMPETE2020 (Ref: POCI-01-0247-FEDER-046082)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Fernanda Fidalgo, Cristiano Soares, Ruth Pereira (Team Members)

Keywords

2020 – 2023

PEST(bio)CIDE - Better management Practices of Eucalypts burnt Stands by promoTing the use of leaf bIomass as bioCIDE

Financed by

FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology; PCIF/GVB/0150/2018)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Fernanda Fidalgo (PI), Ruth Pereira (Co-PI); A. Cachada, T. Andreani, S. Bouguerra, I.V. Nogueira, C. Soares, B. Sousa, M.J. Martins (Team Members)

Keywords

Post-fire management, Sustainable agriculture, Invasive species, Assisted regeneration

2019 – 2022

SafeNPest - Synthesis and environmental safety of nanopesticides

Financed by

FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology; POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029343)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Ruth Pereira (Co-PI), Fernanda Fidalgo (Team member), Cristiano Soares (PhD student), Ana Gavina (PhD student)

Keywords

nanopesticides, environmental safety, cytotoxicity, ecotoxicity

2018 – 2022

StressNet - Membrane remodeling under stress: characterization of protein determinants and interaction networks

Financed by

FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology; PTDC/BIA-FBT/32013/2017)

Role of GreenUPorto members

José Pissarra (PI), Susana Pereira (Co-PI); Cláudia Pereira, Ana séneca, Miguel Sampaio (Team Members)

Keywords

stress tolerance, unconventional pathways, membrane remodeling, endocytic pathways

2018 – 2021

4Cs – Consumer Cross Cultural Context – Avaliação intercultural de vinhos e produtos tradicionais portugueses

Financed by

NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-033790

Role of GreenUPorto members

Luís Miguel Cunha (Investigador Responsável), Susana Fonseca (Investigadora)

Keywords

2018 – 2021

BerryPlastid - Biosynthesis of secondary compounds in the grape berry: unlocking the role of the plastid

Financed by

FEDER (ERDF)/COMPETE 2020 (Portugal 2020) and national funds via FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology; POCI-01-0145-FEDER-028165)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Fernanda Fidalgo (PI from FCUP); Jorge Teixeira (Team Member), Cristiano Soares (PhD student)

Keywords

spatio-temporal variability, oxydative stress, fertilizer, echinoculture

2018 – 2021

EOIS-CropProt- Essential oils, infusions, and silicon in crop protection. A study using tomato plants as a model to disclose the biopesticides induced defense mechanisms of plants, through an omics approach

Financed by

European Investment Funds and National Funds by FEDER/OE, Project IC&DT (ref. POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031131)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Manuel Fernandes-Ferreira (Coordinator); Rose Marie Sousa (Team member)

Keywords

biopesticides formulations, essential oils, infusions, silicon, micro-/nanotechnologies, transcriptomic, metabolomic

2018 – 2021

GreenRehab- Green rehabilitation system for burned soils based on the inoculation of native cyanobacteria and microalgae

Financed by

FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology; Ref. PCIF/RPG/0077/2017)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Paula Melo (Co-PI), Ruth Pereira, Anabela Cachada (Team members)

Keywords

burned soils, ecosystem rehabilitation, inoculation-based techniques, native cyanobacteria and microalgae

2018 – 2021

Val-WRACK - Wrack as high value resource in a global warming scenario. Is it worthy to invest on it?

Financed by

FEDER (ERDF)/COMPETE 2020 (Portugal 2020) and national funds via FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology; POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029818)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Fernanda Fidalgo (PI from FCUP); Cristiano Soares (PhD student)

Keywords

secondary metabolism, plastid, grapevine, fruit quality

2018 – 2020

I9RURAL – Technical Assistance and Transfer of Innovation for Forestry and Agriculture

Financed by

PDR2020 – Programa de Desenvolvimento Rural (Projeto 2024-032881)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Susana Fonseca (Project Coordinator at FCUP/GreenUPorto); Ana Aguiar, Joana Neto, Susana Carvalho (Team Members)

Keywords

digital platform, collaborative network, knowledge transfer

2017 – 2020

Arroz BIG - Development of rice products with low glycemic index

Financed by

ANI – Agência Nacional de Inovação (Projetos de I&DT empresas em copromoção P2020; Projeto 17931)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Luís M Cunha (Team leader), SC Fonseca, D Cabral (Team member)

Keywords

consumer perception, food related emotions, new product development, sensory profiling

http://www.poci-compete2020.pt/noticias/detalhe/Proj17931_Arroz-BIG

2017 – 2020

MOBFood - Mobilizing scientific and technological knowledge in response to the challenges of the agri-food market

Financed by

Compete2020 – Projetos Mobilizadores (POCI-01-0247-FEDER-024524)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Luís M Cunha (Work Package Scientific Leader PPS8 – New Methodologies for the Evaluation of Consumer Perception), SC Fonseca, J Queiroz, SMP Carvalho (Team members)

Keywords

context, dynamic sensory profiling, mixed (virtual and augmented) reality systems, sensory panel performance, traditional products perception and profiling

2016 – 2020

Strawberry+: novel approaches for boosting strawberry quality from field to industry

Financed by

ANI – Agência Nacional de Inovação (Projetos de I&DT empresas em copromoção P2020; POCI-01-0247-FEDER-017821)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Susana Carvalho (Project Scientific Coordinator); S Fonseca, L M Cunha, A Aguiar, M Wang (Team members)

Keywords

biostimulants, nutritional quality, physicochemical quality, sensorial quality, yield

http://www.poci-compete2020.pt/noticias/detalhe/17821-Strawberry+

2016 – 2019

(Fe)rrying plants to prevent chlorosis

Financed by

FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology; PTDC/AGR-PRO/3515/2014)

Role of GreenUPorto members

SMP Carvalho (Team members)

Keywords

Fe-chelates, Iron deficiency chlorosis, Fe uptake mechanism, IDC gene markers

2016 – 2019

NUTRI4CAST - Nutritional forecasting: towards mitigating the impact of climate change on legume nutrition

Financed by

FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology; PTDC/AGR-PRO/3972/2014)

Role of GreenUPorto members

SMP Carvalho (Team member)

Keywords

CO2, Common bean, iron, soybean

2016 – 2019

PSAlert - Kiwifruit Bacterial Canker: Exploring Tolerance Mechanisms and Novel Control Techniques

Financed by

FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology; PTDC/AGR-PRO/6156/2014)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Susana Carvalho (Project co-coordinator); M Nunes da Silva (Team members)

Keywords

elicitors, G x E, kiwifruit, Pseudomonas syringae (PSA)

2016 – 2019

QuaLaty - Deciphering the grass pea (Lathyrus sativus) quality riddle. How can the omics technologies contribute to a demand-driven improvement in legume quality?

Financed by

FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology; PTDC/AGR-TEC/0992/2014)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Luís Cunha (Team member)

Keywords

children, consumer perception, fermented legumes, innovation

2016 – 2018

SMARTAgriFor Norte2020 – Promoting Agri-Food and Forestry Stakeholder Engagement for Knowledge transfer and SmartAgriFor partnerships

Financed by

FEDER/ Norte2020 - Sistema de Apoio às Ações Coletivas ‘Transferência de Conhecimento Cientifico e Tecnológico – Teaming’/ CCDR-N (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000023)

Role of GreenUPorto members

Susana Carvalho (UPorto co-coordinator); S Fonseca, L Cunha, J Queiroz (Team members)

Keywords

biostimulants, nutritional quality, physicochemical quality, sensorial quality, yield