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FIGARO project timeline (2012–2016)

This timeline is our reconstruction, built from the project's dated announcements.

  1. October 2012 Project start (FP7, grant agreement 311903, 48 months).
  2. February 2013 EU grant of about €6 million announced; consortium led by Netafim.
  3. June 2013 Partners meeting in Kavala, Greece; prototype field tests under way in nine countries.
  4. January 2014 Valencia meeting: first full season of field results; cotton case study.
  5. June 2014 Presentations at the World Processing Tomato Congress and the CommNet round table.
  6. November 2014 EIP Water Conference, Barcelona.
  7. January 2015 Platform version 1 presented at FAO, Rome.
  8. March 2015 Field data retrieval web service and WiseUp tool.
  9. July 2015 Results presented at ECPA 2015, Tel Aviv.
  10. January 2016 Annual meeting in Bologna to prepare the demonstrations.
  11. March–July 2016 Workshops and open field days in Greece, Denmark, Spain, Italy and Portugal.
  12. June 2016 Final platform presented in Kavala.
  13. September 2016 Haifa conference and Zar'it field day (7–8 Sep), Komotini field day (14 Sep), closing conference in Brussels (19 Sep).
  14. 30 September 2016 End of the project.