The mission of INCDSB is to achieve excellence in life sciences research through the interdisciplinary integration of research activities across four key directions that define the central axis of INCDSB's RDI activities: (1) agriculture, food, nutrition, and food safety, (2) environment and biodiversity, (3) biomedicine and health, (4) circular bioeconomy, leveraging the transdisciplinary potential of supporting fields such as bioanalysis, bioinformatics, applied biotechnologies, and research in extreme environments.The vision of INCDSB is to contribute, through cooperation with regional, national, and international partners, to understanding life processes and providing sustainable solutions to address challenges related to the environment, health, depletion of natural resources, food, and other critical issues.
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Areas of activity
Clean environment and zero pollution
3 Environmental biotechnology applications in service of remediation of polluted ecosystems4 Towards a comprehensive European strategy to assess and monitor aquatic litter including plastic and microplastic pollution5 Cumulative impacts of marine pollution on marine organisms and ecosystems8 Substances of concern and emerging pollutants from bio-based industries and products: mapping and replacement
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
4 Large-scale in situ biodiversity observations for better understanding of biodiversity state, drivers of its decline and impacts of policies5 Assessing and modelling ecosystems’ dynamic processes to guide restoration activities and to improve models used for climate11 Living labs and lighthouses co-creating innovative solutions for forests and freshwater ecosystems restoration
Fair, healthy and environment-friendly food systems from primary production to consumption
13 Raising citizen awareness on alternative proteins derived from biotechnology14 Nutrients produced by microbes utilising primarily CO2 from the air, with the support of biotechnology17 Nutrition in emergency situations - Ready to-use Supplementary Food (RUSF) and Ready-to-use Therapeutic Food21 Research and innovation for food waste prevention and reduction at household level through measurement, monitoring and new technologies