Agricultural University of Athens - AUA (Greece)

URL: http://www.aua.gr/

The Agricultural University of Athens (AUA) is the third oldest University in Greece. For over eighty years, it has been serving agricultural sciences producing high quality graduates, as well as scientific knowledge through basic and applied research. The University consists of seven faculties: Crop Science, Animal Science, Agricultural Biotechnology, Rural Economics & Development, Food Science & Technology, Natural Resources Management & Agricultural Engineering, and General Science.

Two particular laboratories will participate in the Organic.Edunet project.

• The Informatics Laboratory of AUA (AUA Infolab) was established in 1989, as part of the Division of Informatics, Mathematics & Statistics which belongs to the Faculty of General Science. It has as its mission to support the research and educational needs of all faculties of the university. Its main activity is the education of students on topics of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), so that the graduates of AUA can effectively use ICT in their everyday jobs. Moreover, its activities include research in topics of Agricultural Informatics and the application of ICT in Agriculture and Rural Development.

  AUA Infolab will participate in identification of existing content requirements it will participate in the technical specification and system deployment, leading the semantic definition of the metadata schema of the project and will actively participate in the dissemination and exploitation tasks, especially focusing on the creation of liaisons with standardization bodies and groups.

• The Laboratory of Vegetable Production (AUA Vegelab) is one of ten Laboratories within the Department of Crop Science of the AUA. The research areas of the Laboratory include among others energy-saving techniques for greenhouse vegetables, sustainability and organic vegetable production.

  AUA Vegelab will also contribute in the identification of existing content requirements. Its main involvement will be during the content population activities (WP4 leader), where it will contribute to the creation, population and deployment of the BIOAGRO learning repository (aggregating AUA’s content from the BIOAGRO project), lead the population and deployment of the Organic.Edunet learning repository with publicly-available content resources, and participate in the dissemination and exploitation of the project results, especially in the communities of organic horticulture and vegetable production.

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