(ANSA) - TRIESTE, 10 APR - With the conference ''Fisheries and agriculture: the participatory approach to cross-border innovation'', the ''Fish-Agro Tech CBC Project'' Fisheries-Agriculture: cross-border participation and innovation'' began at the VG Chamber of Commerce, as part of the Interreg Italy-Slovenia Programme and co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund, and in which Aries - Cciaa Venezia Giulia is the lead partner. Innovation opportunities were presented, with the participation of open innovation and local communities, describing best practices in the fisheries-aquaculture and agriculture sectors.

The aim is to focus on needs and possibilities for innovation, create a synergy with the bearers of innovation, in order to develop activities to support companies in the implementation of pilot activities and shared innovation projects. The Fish-Agro Tech CBC project, whose implementation will continue until December 31, 2019 - and which is based on an investment of 1.016 million euros with the contribution of the European Regional Development Fund - Interreg Italy-Slovenia Programme - will be developed by Aries, lead partner, with the Italian partners Area Science Park and GAL Carso-LAS Kras and the Slovenian partners Technological Park of Ljubljana, Primorska Chamber of Economy (Capodistria/Koper), National Institute of Biology. As an associated partner, the Local Action Group LAS Istre will collaborate. ''With this meeting - said Patrizia Andolfatto, director of Aries - we have implemented the first objective of the project which is to involve companies, associations, scientific and research institutions and local communities in the fisheries-aquaculture and agriculture sectors''. Robert Rakar, Director of the Primorska Chamber of Economy, underlined that ''it is crucial to have an enlarged'' region ''like the one that includes our territories, to work together to improve agricultural and fish production in the food sector, which will be more and more strategic''. The project will lay the foundations for a concrete sharing of innovation proposals and solutions to be transferred to companies in the fisheries-aquaculture and agriculture sectors, encouraging the creation of cross-border networks and aggregations between the companies and stakeholders committed to research and innovation.

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