AGRIFOOD RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

CTAEX tackles various scientific areas of the agri-food value chain, covering sustainable agronomy and food production, biotechnology, and by-products valorisation. 
The Centre brings together, in the same location, experimental farms, food pilot plants, kitchen and tasting rooms, facilities to produce food, food technology and food quality control, tasting rooms, physical chemical and microbiological laboratories, and equipment and process control facilities, so that it is possible to follow the complete agri-food process, “From Farm to Fork” ", carrying out both agricultural and food research.

Its business-nature ensures the Multi-Actor Approach (MAA) and that newly developed technical solutions meet real life needs.

CTAEX is certified as Knowledge Transfer Office (KTO) with number 60 (Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities).

The Centre has acquired vast expertise in the development of R&D Projects at regional, national, and international level, aiming at improving the competitiveness of the European agri-food sector from a market-oriented approach. 
CTAEX is made up of 70 partners or associates, belonging to the most representative agri-food sectors, assuring the co-creation and sharing of knowledge among them (MAA), and supporting the Quadruple Helix Model of innovation system (Science, policy, industry, and society).
Agroindustry sector embodied in CTAEX includes industrial tomato primary and secondary processing, tobacco production; winery; rice; olive grove, table olives and olive oil; ecological agriculture; livestock and agri-food residues management.