activitylog

My year 2023

What seemed important to me in 2023?

A new award and a new publication!

Today I got two pleasant communications:

Digital Science Recommendations for Food and Agriculture

The Horizon2020 AGINRAplus project published a Discussion Paper on Digital Science for Food and Agriculture

https://www.plus.aginfra.eu/content/digital-science-recommendations-food-agriculture

Fairs, Wine Tasting and Food Wine Pairing

I spent this year from mid September to mid December in China. Beside my October stage with CAAS I travelled for Wine Fairs and Wine Presentations to promote the wine fro my partner wineries, which are already 5: "Salviano" from the Lago di Corbara "Scacciadiavoli" from Montefalco, "Tili' from Assisi, "Duca della Corgna" from Lago di Trasimeno and "Cantine Terribile"from Puglia.

Stage at CAAS in Beijing

For 2019/2020 I agreed with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science (CAAS) on a collaboratio of 40 days as a visiting Scientists. CAAS wants me to help them with publications, project proposals and particularly with pushing forward the ATS (Agricultural Technology Sharing) project.I had m y first assignment in October this year. I was happy to work again with my friend Prof Zhang Xuefu and his team.

GACS Paper in "Nature - Science of Food" published

An article on the Global Agricultural Concept Space has been published in the Nature Journal "Science of Food".

64 and 8

I wrote about my plans at the beginning of this year. One of this plans was to have a big summer party at the Buon Respiro. And this did happen! Many family and friends came on June 22. Next year it should be still bigger. Reserve the last Saturday in June to come to Umbria.

WineSong Company launched in China and Italy

Together with my Partner Wang Chun I started some time ago Winesong. Wang Chun (Nixey), is a Chinese Wine Journalist and Professional. Some time ago she decided not to write only about Wine, but to bring better wines to Chinese people.

...when I am 64

eROSA presentation at NFDI4L

Germany is working to create its Research data Infrastructure. Monies will be available at the end of the year and consortia can present their projects.

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At the beginning of october I participated at the Big Data Conference, organized by "bigstep" in London - in the context of the world wide Bg Data Week. I was there to learn if AI could be useful in the context of the goals of Sci4D (https://www.sci4d.org).

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Delegation of Chinese Academy of Science visits Orvieto

On September 13th I arranged the visit of a delegation from the Chinese Academy of Science (Institutes in Lhasa and Chengdu) to Orvieto. The delegation was welcomed in the city hall by mayor Germani and Councelor Cannistrà. Both sides emphasized the necessity of strengthening cultural, scientific and economic relations.

eRosa project successfully completed

jk Chnia The eROSA project (e-Infrastructure Roadmap for open science in agriculture and food - https://erosa.aginfra.eu/front) has been successfully completed. The Roadmap forsight paper has been submitted to the EU and has been published at https://zenodo.org/record/1314186#.W6J4begzYwG.The final evaluation meeting was hold on September 13.

eROSA presentation at CAAS, September 2018

On my recent trip to China I had the chance to present the outcomes of the eROSA project to my friends of the Agricultural Information Institute at CAAS. The CAAS people are very much interested in the follow up and want to be an active partner of the agINFRA community.

Delegation of GKAH in Germany and the Netherlands

Last week I accompanied a delegation from Guangdong Animal Husbandry group in a Study tour to Germany and Wageningen. China is the biggest producer of pigs. China becomes also always more the greatest market for pigs. China is now part of 6 among the 10 biggest trade streams. GK group is a big state farm and its Animal Husbandry Section is one of the big pig producers.

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