Centro Internazionale di Ricerca PER la Montagna
CirMont - International Research Center for Mountain
EIM
Ente Italiano della Montagna
Piazza Caprettari 70
00186 Roma
www.inrm.it
AGEMONT
Via J. Linussio 1
33020 Amaro (UD) Italy
www.agemont.it
“The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of
their dreams”
Eleanor Roosevelt
UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI
DI UDINE
Via Palladio 8
33100 Udine Italy
www.uniud.it
CirMont
Centro Internazionale di Ricerca PER la Montagna
CirMont was born to...
“…define innovative models of development in
mountain areas, from the economic-social and
enviromental point of view, focused in particular on
new technologies, new products, avantgarde
productive pathways and utilities”
(The Statute)
CirMont
Centro Internazionale di Ricerca PER la Montagna
WHAT WE DO:
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Searching of new
possible ways to
enhance the
development of
mountain areas.
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Creating new
opportunities, by the
activities of the
applied research
and technologies.
CirMont
To research
Local Area
CirMont
Centro Internazionale di Ricerca PER la Montagna
Missions
To study
Knowledge transfer
CirMont
Centro Internazionale di Ricerca PER la Montagna
our way of working..
Knowledge
transfer
Meetings with the stakeholders;
 Pannel tests;
 Technical Assistance;
 Workshops
Vademecum
 Web sites
 Scientific papers
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Research
and experimentation
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Projection
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Ideas
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Dialogue with local area
students on stage
Internazional experiences
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Analisys
In field Activities
Experimentation
Conferences.
Preliminar evaluations
Definition of pathways
Analisys of the reality
Evaluation of financial opportunities
Exstimation of positive effects
research of the partnership
Project cycle managment
CirMont
Centro Internazionale di Ricerca PER la Montagna
CirMont is …
Management
Passion
Research
Innovation
Love
for
landescape
Training
Idea
Intellectual
curiosity
CirMont
Centro Internazionale di Ricerca PER la Montagna
CirMont is for young people…
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an opportunity to learn a trade;
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a chance to realize their professional aspirations
in mountain areas;
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a challenge to become entrepreneur of one’s shelf.
CirMont
Centro Internazionale di Ricerca PER la Montagna
CirMont is for Mountain areas….
the innovative “engine” for the development throughout
nnthe research;
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the “hatchery” of ideas, experiences and scientific and
management competences;
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a “joint” between traditions and Innovation.
CirMont
Centro Internazionale di Ricerca PER la Montagna
CirMont is, then…
... a dinamic and self-sufficient reality,
thanks to the high quality and the usefullness of
its research activities.
CirMont
Centro Internazionale di Ricerca PER la Montagna
Partners
Centro Internazionale di Ricerca per la Montagna
Agenzia Regionale per lo Sviluppo Rurale
Università di Udine – Dipartimento di Scienze degli Alimenti
Ispettorato Ripartimentale delle Foreste di Udine – Vivaio
Forestale di Pradandons
CirMont
Centro Internazionale di Ricerca PER la Montagna
The Laboratories
CirMont
Centro Internazionale di Ricerca PER la Montagna
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Laboratories for the valorisation of typical and
local agro-food products.
CirMont
Centro Internazionale di Ricerca PER la Montagna
Innovation
Flexibility
Complementariety
Laboratories
-To study the typical agro-food products;
Utilities
- collaboration;
- technical assistance;
- flexibility.
CirMont
Centro Internazionale di Ricerca PER la Montagna
The agro-food laboratory
 300.000 euro of scientific tools;
 3 researchers emplyed with research grants
and furthermore is…
CirMont
Centro Internazionale di Ricerca PER la Montagna
The agro-food laboratory
Control on the
production
quality control;
 genuineness guarantees;
 traceability;
 evaluations of the
quality/price rate;
 strategies for the marketing
valorisation of the products
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Commission
tasters;
 operative guidelines:
 Product (homogeneity)
 Sample (presentation, n°,anonymity)
 “Schedula” (quantitative and qualitative
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Sensorial evaluation
attributes)
Times
 behaving of the tasters
assaggiatori;
 adequate site;
 statistic analysis
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CirMont
Centro Internazionale di Ricerca PER la Montagna
Activities
Experimentation on
plants important from
the ecological point
of view
Monitoring the diffusion of some
spontaneous plants
(Gentiana,Cicerbita Alpina)
Experimentation on
spontaneous plants
Tests of cultivation on
spontaneous plants and
amelioration of the productive
techniques
Technical assistance
to farmers
Project managment
Analisys of the fitopatologic problems
pH-metria
CirMont
Centro Internazionale di Ricerca PER la Montagna
Research projects and
experimentations
CirMont
Centro Internazionale di Ricerca PER la Montagna
Project activities (2004/2011)
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BioEnergy;
Ecogas;
BioInnovErbe;
Micosafe;
Resia’s garlic;
Crop of Gentiana Lutea;
Savôrs/Dišave: to cultivate the diversity, the education to the taste in
Carnia and in Istria;
Investigation on the linguistic needs of the germanofic comunities of Sauris
and Timau;
Project “Carne della Montagna Friulana-Carne di Qualità;
Project “PeperoncinoCarnia”;
FutureBioInnovErbe.
Almost 1 milione of euro in 3y on agro-food area.
CirMont
Centro Internazionale di Ricerca PER la Montagna
For example: experimental fields (BioInnovErbe)
CirMont
Centro Internazionale di Ricerca PER la Montagna
Not only laboratories…
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Centro Internazionale di Ricerca PER la Montagna
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Undergraduate students and interns;
Groups of study;
Think tank;
Promotion of Slow Food activities;
Work safety in agricullture;
Meetings, conferences, technical workshops;
Statistics studies
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CirMont
Centro Internazionale di Ricerca PER la Montagna
The think tank
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is very usefull to due with complex issues;
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is effective to involve competences, sensibilities and
different interests (sometimes in contrast) in a “not
formal” framework;
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allows the mediation.
CirMont
Centro Internazionale di Ricerca PER la Montagna
There is no a unique Formula
but…
“The future belongs to those who
believe in the beauty of their dreams”
Eleanor Roosevelt
Our dream is to think that the Research could be the engine to
promote the development of Mountain areas.
www.cirmont.it
[email protected]
Tel. + 39 0433 467124
CirMont