Annual Investment Plan for the Institutional Technical Reserve - Embrapa Instrumentação

• Grant number: 24/16788-0
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Technical Reserve for Institutional Research Infrastructure
• Start date: December 01, 2024
• End date: November 30, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Interdisciplinary Subjects
• Principal Investigator: Daniel Souza Corrêa
• Grantee: Daniel Souza Corrêa
• Host Institution: Embrapa Instrumentação Agropecuária. Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA). Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento (Brasil). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This plan aims to meet the demands for adapting the facilities and equipment needed to improve Embrapa Instrumentação's research infrastructure. Embrapa Instrumentação is a research center located in São Carlos/SP that operates nationwide. This center conducts research, development, and innovation in thematic areas that foster disruptive innovation, based on basic science and technological trends for sustainable agribusiness. Its team is comprised of 30 PhD researchers with multidisciplinary training, 29 analysts, 19 technicians, and 3 assistants. Its 81 employees, working in the areas of research and support, administration, and technology transfer, assist in the annual training of approximately 180 interns and fellows for postdoctoral, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate programs. The center has already achieved leadership in two national research networks, one in nanotechnology applied to agriculture, which brings together approximately 180 researchers, and another in precision agriculture, with 214 researchers. In addition to these two broad lines of research, Embrapa Instrumentação works in soil and water management and conservation, post-harvest, bioprocesses and bioproducts, and the environment. The infrastructure consists of two buildings located in the city center that house the National Laboratory of Nanotechnology for Agribusiness (LNNA) and the National Laboratory of Agrophotonics (LANAF) and an experimental field, located in a space provided by Embrapa Pecuária Sudeste, which houses the National Reference Laboratory for Precision Agriculture (LANAPRE). These laboratories are part of Embrapa's network of 08 Multiuser Laboratories that have particularities in their management, allowing shared use with other research centers and universities, increasing technological capillarity and the potential for scientific development. The Multi-User Laboratories of Embrapa Instrumentation are organized into 35 laboratories that develop several projects funded by Embrapa and other funding agencies, and that involve knowledge of Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, Biology, Agricultural Sciences and Engineering to develop methodologies, equipment, processes and products aimed at agribusiness with sustainability for the benefit of Brazilian society. To improve research performance and greater reliability of the results obtained, adjustments and maintenance are corrected and necessary. Table 1 details the need to perform some services as well as the acquisition of materials to improve and continue research in the unit's laboratories. (AU)