Aberystwyth University welcomes European experts on economic impact of agricultural science
A team of international scientists gathered at Aberystwyth University this week for a meeting on an EU-wide project, IMPRESA, hosted by the School of Management and Business. The €2.1m IMPRESA project is led by Professor Peter Midmore of the School of Management and Business at Aberystwyth University. The project is funded through the European Union’s Framework 7 programme over the period 2013 to 2016, and is studying the economic impact of scientific research on agriculture across Europe. The project team includes academics and scientists from Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland, as well as from Aberystwyth University. UK research, undertaken by academic researchers in the School of Management and Business at Aberystwyth University as part of the project, focuses on the impact of the creation of the Dairy Fertility Index over the last 15 years. Other projects are looking at products to combat varroa mites in bees, renewable energy for biogas, conversion to organi...