The FIGARO consortium: partners and their roles
FIGARO was led by industry. It was coordinated by Netafim and brought together specialised SMEs, universities and a research centre, a public body representing end users (the Regional Union of Municipalities of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace) and FAO. CER, an Italian irrigation consortium, served as water stakeholder and scientific reference for the Emilia-Romagna region.
The list below is compiled from the project's public pages. Roles are summarised in our own words. Some partners changed during the project (for example, field testing passed from Eden Irrigation to Orev).
| Organisation | Country | Role in FIGARO |
|---|---|---|
| Netafim Ltd | Israel | Coordinator. Drip and micro-irrigation company; led the analysis of what precision irrigation can achieve and the basic platform set-up (WP2), worked on the software and device interfaces and prepared commercial exploitation. |
| Agora P.S.V.D. (Agora Partners) | Israel | Project management (WP1): administrative, financial and legal coordination, plus part of the dissemination. |
| Aarhus University, Department of Agroecology | Denmark | Led decision support, simulation and optimisation (WP3); ran a two-year precision fertigation experiment on potatoes used for demonstrations. |
| HydroLogic Research BV | Netherlands | Weather data, forecasting and models for irrigation demand; system design and data integration with Hidromod. |
| Universitat Politècnica de València (IIAMA, CEVER) | Spain | Field tests on citrus and table grapes in the Valencia region, valve and pumping optimisation, satellite image assimilation; led the demonstration work package (WP9). |
| Eden Irrigation Consultancy Ltd | United Kingdom | On-farm testing of the platform (WP8 in the first period). |
| C-Tech Innovation Ltd | United Kingdom | Led irrigation monitoring and control technologies (WP4), including a water quality and fertiliser sensor. |
| AgroSens (Thomsen Anton Gaarde) | Denmark | Soil water (TDR) and canopy sensors, including the tractor-mounted tool used at the Danish site. |
| Hidromod Modelação em Engenharia Lda | Portugal | Led platform integration (WP6): data flows between interface, decision support and devices; validation of the whole system. |
| Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon (MARETEC) | Portugal | Model integration for irrigation and fertilisation; maize field tests and the Portuguese demonstration site. |
| University of Bologna (DEIAGRA) | Italy | Performance indicators, economic assessment of on-farm results, participatory methods during demonstrations. |
| Consorzio di bonifica per il Canale Emiliano Romagnolo (CER) | Italy | Led irrigation strategies (WP5); scientific management; processing vegetables and maize trials; WiseUp tool. |
| Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | Israel | Decision-support architecture, modelling workflows and the optimisation programme. |
| Democritus University of Thrace | Greece | Cotton field experiments and Greek demonstrations (Xanthi). |
| Regional Union of Municipalities of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace | Greece | Public end user: policy recommendations and dissemination in the region (22 municipalities, about 600,000 inhabitants). |
| University of Twente, Water Engineering and Management | Netherlands | Assessment methods and water footprint analysis (WP7). |
| Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) | International (Rome) | Training, dissemination and exploitation (WP10); built and hosted the original project website. |
| Orev | Denmark | Agronomic consultancy; led on-farm testing (WP8) and supervised the field and demonstration sites. |
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