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"EU Green Deal Policy"
08.2019 | present
Minister Counsellor, Head of Research & Innovation Section of the Delegation of the European Union to the State of Israel
02.2016 |.08.2019
Head of Unit " International Cooperation in R&I with European Neighbourhood, Africa and the Gulf"
Define and implement the international cooperation in R&I with Neighbourhood, Africa and Gulf.
Elaborate and coordinate the unit long term objectives: increase participation of Neighbourhood, African and countries in H2020; further enhance regional cooperation; promote science diplomacy initiatives; ensure, in collaboration with other services, that H2020 is designed to take into account the strategic cooperation with key EU international partners; foster synergies with other Commission's services such as EEAS, NEAR and DEVCO
7/2015 - 1/2016
Head of Unit "ITER Project and Boarder Approach, European Commission,
DG ENER - D4 - ITER
7/2012 - 6/2015
Head of Unit "ITER Project and Boarder Approach"
Ensure the political, budgetary and scientific oversight of the ITER Project and Broader Approach (BA), in collaboration with the European Joint Undertakings Fusion for Energy (F4E).
Ensure the Commission's representation and prepare its position in the governance instances such as the ITER Council, F4E Governing Board and its Advisory Committee (MAC, ExCo and AFC) and working groups. Regular interaction with F4E (450 staff), ITER Organisation (550 staff) management and staff
DG RTD - K5 - ITER
5/2011 - 6/2012
Deputy Head "ITER Project and Boarder Approach"
Support the Head of Unit in steering the implementation of the Commission policy towards the European Joint Undertaking F4E and the ITER Organization. Support the Head of Unit in defining the unit’s overall strategic and specific objectives.
DG RTD - K5 - ITER
9/2008 - 4/2011
Legal officer/Team leader "Administration and finance"
CAMAR Vice Chair, being the body verifying and approving the award of Commission external actions contracts in accordance with of DG Relex and EU Delegations procurement procedures and rules.
DG RELEX/FPI
10/2005 - 8/2008
Procurement officer/Head of sector "Contract and procurement Department"
Deal with the preparation of a series of Marie Curie standard contracts (11 different actions). In particular developing contractual provisions related to the temporary employment of the fellows, to the national social security schemes and other related matters.
1/2002 - 9/2005
Legal officer/Project officer "Marie Curie Fellowship "
Participate in setting up F4E's contract and procurement Department being actively involved in the selection of its staff and the developing its procedures.
DG RTD - Unit Marie Curie Fellowship
9/1998 - 12/2001
Lawyer- Solicitor
Deal with Court cases, legal opinion, reports, debriefing in the field of European law, International law, Competition law, Mergers & Acquisitions and Intellectual Property Rights other related matters.
Ashurst Morris Crisp Law-firm/Pavia and Ansaldo Law-firm

Introduction

Gianfranco Gabai is full professor of Veterinary physiology at the University of Padua, Italy. He is a member of the Editorial board for scientific journal "Research in Veterinary Science” since 2015, and was member of the Scientific Committeè of the Italian Society for Veterinary Sciences between 2015 and 2018. Since 2020, he has been appointed as President of the Italian Society of Veterinary Physiology. His research interests regard the mechanisms mediating the environment effects on animal adaptation. In particular, the focus is on the effects of stress and the Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal axis and oxidative stress on reproduction in ruminants. Recently, he acted as Management Committee member in the UE-COST action FA1308, named “DairyCare”, where he led Working Group 1 ”Biomarker-based welfare technologies”.

"Current cooperation between Italy and Israel in agriculture"

Responsible for the “Task Force International Cooperation” at MiPAAF.
The working group within the “DISR II – Rural Development” Unit of the MiPAAF is the national
delegated authority for the management and implementation of the Twinning projects in the field
of agriculture and, in general, for the organization, management and support to the execution of
activities related to the institutional cooperation at the national and international level

"Precision livestock farming. Overview of current situation"

Marcella Guarino received his doctorate in Animal husbandry at University of Milan (Italy) in 1996. Since 1992 she has been facing the problem concerning relation between livestock structures and the environment. Formerly she took charge of research projects focusing on the Climatization control in animal husbandry. She has been involved in many researches and on studying committees both at regional and national level.

In 2000 she got a grant from the National Council of Research (CNR) to develop a research in the Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering of University of Minnesota – USA, under the supervision of Prof. Larry D. Jacobson.
Joining the Department of Veterinary Science and Technology for Food Safety of the University of Milan in a permanent position (researcher (SSD AGR/10 - Rural buildings and landscape) she carried out her scientific activity at the Bioengineering and Environment Laboratory working on researches addressed to environmental problem, air indoor quality, and Precision livestock farming.
Member of the Board of the Animal science Ph.D. school, and of other committees of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Milan.
She coordinates a research staff of 5 people and the group research activities concern on the animal welfare in relation to air quality, she was in charge of a national project to monitor PM10, ammonia, methane and nitrose oxide from pig and poultry farms, to implement the national inventory of emissions and the study of environmental control techniques (to abate dusts gases and odors) are being studied for use on farms to increase production and improve the health and safety of the animals and workers.
She leads a project sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Environment (APAT), to fill the lack of data in the European country on PM10 emission from swine and poultry barns: the study allowed establishing the development of mathematical dynamic models for the emission factor assessment

To this purpose the research focused the cleaning level of various materials commonly used to build walls and floors by evaluating the colonization and persistence power of some typical bacteria after washing. The experimental activity focused also the relations between type of building (with particular attention to the slurry removal system) and the indoor air quality.

She is involved in studying the problems connected with innovation technology in livestock farming with reference both to the design aspects of the animal sheds and to their implications on the shed's indoor air quality. Afterwards she deepened the

aspects connected to environmental impact of livestock farming by studying both gas/dust emissions in atmosphere and the reduction of nitrogen content in farm sludge to be used for agronomic purpose. More recently she was focusing on PLF studying the application of possible innovative solutions for the automatic monitoring of the animal health and welfare conditions in livestock farming.

With reference to the studies carried out on the innovation technology in livestock farming, the main aspects investigated were the methods to avoid the penetration and development of pathologies, infections and various infestations in pig farming

She is the author of more than 150 papers both on National and International journals
She works with several international partners and she is part of an excellence research network within the themes of PLF

"PLF heat-stress case studies"

2001 to date Senior research scientist; A+ grade (2016) Inst.of Agricultural Engineering, A.R.O. Israel
2002 to date Invited lecturer, Adjunct Professor (2015), Computer Simulation, Dept. of industrial engineering and management, Faculty of Engineering Sciences. Ben-Gurion University.
1999–2001 Business development and acting Vice President of R&D, Afimilk, Israel
1999 Ph.D. Agricultural Engineering, Wageningen University, Netherlands.
1994 -1995 M.Sc. Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
1989 -1993 B.Sc. Agricultural Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Haifa, Israel
1965 - 1989 Farming experience at the family farm
Selected International EU research projects
2016-to date EAAP Study Commission on Precision Livestock Farming; President
2011- 2018 European Committee for Precision Livestock Farming (ECPLF); Member

"Improvement of livestock housing, assessment and control of thermal comfort in hot climates"

Pierpaolo Martini is agronomist engineer, graduated in 1983 at the University of Bologna. He is freelancer. From 1984 to 1993 he attended research on the environmental control and energy saving of livestock housing with University of Bologna.

From 1990 to 1993 and from 2006 to 2010 he was Adjunct Professor of environmental impact of livestock housing at University of Bologna and Florence.

He has been involved in agricultural projects in Israel, since 2002, with the Research Center of Animal Production (CRPA) of Reggio Emilia: e.g. treatment of sewage from large livestock housing for pig through centralized depuration to obtain an irrigation water meeting the standards required by Local Authorities and organic matter as fertilizer. This project took into account the priorities of the Israeli Ministry of Environment: protect soil and groundwater from high concentration of nutrients, salts, fats, etc, supply organic matter to the soil aiming to prevent desertification and soil “overcropping”, reduce the estraxtion of water from the water table. The mission of these projects foresees the integration and development of minority communities in the economic and civil bodies of Israel , through partnership with Arab Israelis and, in future, with Palestinians (Notizie Italiane Embassy of Italy, March 2003).

Scientific speaker at the Italian – Israeli Forum on Environmental technologies, Tel Aviv, Italian Embassy, 14th – 15th October, 2002 (on biological nutrient removal in a Sequential Batch Reactor – SBR, that treats pig slurry).

He served in the Italian Army, with rank of Major, as Functional Specialist Agronomist at the Task Force CIMIC (Civil Military Cooperation) in the missions “Old Babilonia” in Iraq (Nasiriyah, 2005 and 2006, irrigation and date palm assessment) and “Presidium” in Afghanistan (Herat, 2010, saffron supply for poppy eradication project).

He coordinated and took part of cooperation projects in Iraq with University of Florence and Italian Foreign Ministry, under supervision of Prof Matteo Barbari: date palm fruits valorization, transformation and conservation, 2006, innovative solar pump system for drip irrigation, 2013, with support of Department of Engineering "Enzo Ferrari" (DIEF) at University of Modena e Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE).

He promoted and collaborated on a new Israeli – Italian research proposal between Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Prof Gennady Ziskind) and DIEF - UNIMORE (Prof Alberto Muscio) with support of University of Florence (Prof Matteo Barbari) in the fields of renewable energy and sustainable development: S2UPREMO (Sustainable Solar-reflective Units of green Phase-change and REcyclable Materials from Organic sources), submitted in the framework of Italian-Israeli cooperation (Scientific Track 2020).

He is a student of mechanical engineering at DIEF – UNIMORE, Aerodynamics Team member of SAE Formula Student, contributing to the victory “over all” at the UK Silverstone race 2019. Currently he is completing his bachelor degree thesis, working under the supervision of Prof Enrico Mattarelli at DIEF – UNIMORE on a project concerning an innovative hybrid power unit for aircraft.

He is author of more than 40 technical papers also on national and international proceedings of congress and workshop.

"The human as a reference for assessment of livestock thermal comfort"

Alberto Muscio is associate professor of Thermal Fluids (Applied Physics) at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. His research interests are in the fields of energy efficiency, thermal comfort, development and testing of materials relevant to energy efficiency, HVAC systems, thermal control of industrial systems. He is responsible for the Energy Efficiency Laboratory (EELab), an ISO/IEC 17025 accredited laboratory for testing and certification of building materials relevant to building energy efficiency, with a specific focus on materials and solution to counter building overheating and the urban heat island (UHI) effect. He is also Coordinator of the PhD Course "Enzo Ferrari" in Industrial and Environmental Engineering, member of the editorial board of Energy and Buildings, and member of the editorial board of Advances in Building Energy Research. He is also a member of the Italian Union for Thermo Fluid Dynamics (UIT), the Italian Association for Thermophysical Properties (AIPT, President from 2010 to 2016), the Italian Association for Energy Management (AIGE). In 2013-2015 he was Leading Scientist of the MAIN Project, funded by the MED Programme of the EU and focused on materials and solutions to counter urban heat island, in 2014 Co-Chairman of the 3rd Int. Conf. on Countermeasures to UHI, and he has been appointed chairman of the 22nd European Conference on Thermophysical Properties.

"Heat stress and animal health: One health considerations"

Paolo Pasquali is leading a research Unit. His main area of interest is the impact of infectious diseases of zoonotic importance on public health. On that account, he had been involved in an extensive activity concerning research, regulatory issues and consultancy (see delailed description in annex)

"The contribution of proteomics to animal production"

Paola Roncada graduated in 1995 at the University of Milan in Medicinal Chemistry and then she got PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Sassari in 2001. From 2002 to 2017 she was in charge as Head of the Proteomics Laboratory at the Istituto Sperimentale Italiano Lazzaro Spallanzani, and she founded a start-up at the Science and Technology Park of Sardinia in 2006. She is currently associate professor of microbiology and animal infectious diseases at the Magna Grecia University of Catanzaro, where she is teaching courses in biotechnology applied to animal production. Since 2019 She is the president of the Italian Proteomics Association, and from 2010 to 2015 she was elected treasurer in the same association. She is currently Executive Editor of Journal of Proteomics- Food Science and Nutrition section, she is in the Editorial Board of One Health Journal. Moreover, she is in the Council of Human Proteome Organization since 2015.

Contribution to Science. The results of her research activity are mainly focused in the field of public health and One-Health approach. She is author or co-author of more than two hundred works, including communications to national and international congresses. Over the years, she has been mainly dedicated to studies of proteomics, a discipline that she applied to the study of microorganisms in the veterinary public health sector, using advanced molecular methodologies to the etiopathogenetic and diagnostic study of diseases of medical-veterinary interest, even in animal models. She also applied proteomics by investigating phenotypic adaptations of microbial consortia in complex matrices, both animal and food of animal origin. She used these approaches in the field of veterinary reproduction and animal production, in the field of allergens and on animal models of diseases. She was involved in different international and national projects, as ERA NET, EU Projects, and COST ACTIONS. (H-index 27 Google scholar, oct 2020 )

"IT-IL collaboration opportunities"

"Animal pathophysiology and biomarkers of heat stress in dairy cows"

Maya Zachut is a researcher at the Department of Ruminant Science, Institute of Animal Science, ARO Volcani Center, Israel. She received her MSc and PhD in Animal and Veterinary Science from the Faculty of Agriculture of the Hebrew University, Israel, on the effects of dietary fatty acids on reproduction of dairy cows. Her postdoctoral training was in collaboration with Weizmann Institute of Science and Volcani Center, on the molecular mechanism of insulin resistance in peripartum cows. Since 2014 Dr. Zachut is a research scientist at Volcani Center. Her research focuses on stress physiology in dairy cows, specifically the interactions between heat stress and metabolic stress, utilizing proteomic analysis of adipose and other tissues to examine biomarkers of physiology, inflammation and the endocannbinoid system in order to define novel biomarkers of heat and metabolic stress, and develop strategies to improve the stress response in high yielding dairy cows.