Caja Rural and the Council promote USAL’s research in the primary sector

The two entities will provide 150.000 euro to finance projects that offer practical and innovative solutions to the agricultural sector.

The II Call for Research Projects aimed at offering solutions to the primary sector, is already underway. Caja Rural of Salamanca and the Council of Salamanca will collaborate with the University, with the aim of developing research projects that will favor the farming sector of our community. In this way, both entities will contribute with 150.000 euros which will allow to transfer practical, innovative and efficient solutions to the most important economic sector of our region. The development of our rural environment is essential and the University of Salamanca can play a very important role in the technological development of our fields, as we are demonstrating since two years. It is clear that the relationship of the University with the rest of institutions and companies from the province is extraordinary. This is the only way if we want to continue working together for the development of new lines of research that will boost other largely relevant projects with national and international financing.

At the presentation of this call I was accompanied by the president of Caja Rural in Salamanca, Ernesto Moronta and the president of the Council, Javier Iglesias.

More information: Comunicación Universidad de Salamanca

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Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca. He has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2013 to 2017 and Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He leads the renowned BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) Research Group, created in 2000. Director of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute, J. M. Corchado is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015, Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and Member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL). J. M. Corchado has been president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and academic coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology at the University of Salamanca, as well as researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He currently combines all his activity with the direction of Master programmes in Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z System, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management, and Smart Cities & Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca and his work as editor-in-chief of the journals ADCAIJ (Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal), OJCST (Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology) or Electronics MDPI (Computer Science & Engineering section). J. M. Corchado mainly works on projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Sentiment Analysis. He has recently been included in the board of trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation, along with other health professionals and researchers recognised for bringing scientific knowledge closer to society.

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