30 ADAM - Multifunctional irrigation for viticulture adaptation to climate change
Aim: exploring the role of multifunctional irrigation for viticulture (comparing different irrigation systems) on yields and grape quality, over different seasons.
Digital Water City (DWC) - Leading Urban Water Management To Its Digital Future
Aim: developing a web platform for managing water reuse in agriculture, based on both irrigation needs and quality/quantity of the water available at the WWTP.
Application of novel and sustainable phytodepuration techniques in Val Camonica (Italy)
Aim: investigating best practices for supporting the design and maintenance of phytodepuration plants in isolated mountainous settings.
PI: G. B. Bischetti.
Funder: Acque Bresciane - Water Utility.
Duration: Aprile 2020 - Marzo 2021 (12 mesi).
INCIPIT – Integrated computer modeling and monitoring for irrigation planning in Italy
Aim: defining and tuning a methodology for supporting sustainable water resources planning and management in agriculture across spatial scales (application in 6 Italian pilot areas).
PI: C. Gandolfi.
Funder: MIUR.
Partner: Scuola di Scienze Agrarie, Forestali, Alimentari ed Ambientali (SAFE) UNIBAS; Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agro-Alimentari (DISTAL) UNIBO; Dipartimento di Agricoltura, Alimentazione e Ambiente (Di3A) UNICT; Dipartimento di Agraria UNINA; Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Forestali (SAAF) UNIPA.
IrriGate - Towards a better management of gravity fed irrigation
Aim: demonstrating the potential for increasing irrigation water supply and use efficiency across the Lombardy Padana Plain (corn and rice), by combining simulations of irrigation needs with automated systems for remote control of water in gravity fed systems.
MEDWATERICE - Towards a sustainable water use in Mediterranean rice-based agro-ecosystems
Aim: advancing the understanding of water quantity and environmental issues in the rice cropping systems of the largest rice area in Europe (Lomellina, North Italy), both at the farm and district scale.
PI: A. Facchi.
Funder: PRIMA Programme, Horizon 2020.
Partner: Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy; Ente Nazionale Risi, Italy; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy; Agricultural Research Centre, Egypt; Universitat de Girona, Spain; Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain; Tepro Consultores SL, Spain; Netafim, Israel; Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, Portugal; Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal; Black Sea Agricultural Research Institute, Turkey.
MONALISA - Mathematical models and nature-based solutions for improving combined sewer overflows management and reuse
Aim: developing a model-based decision support system for managing and controlling the quantity and quality of stormwater discharged into agricultural channel networks from urban drainage systems.
PI: D. Masseroni.
Funder: Fondazione Cariplo.
Partner: Università degli Studi di Firenze, Università di Bologna.
Duration: 2019-2021 (30 months).
QuoViRuS - Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in water bodies receiving waste/stormwater discharge from urban settings
Aim: investigating the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in water bodies receiving wastewater and stormwater discharge from urban areas across the greater Milan metropolitan region (Italy).
Partner: Dipartimenti di Scienze Biomediche per la Salute e di Scienze Biomediche/Chirurgiche/Odontoiatriche dell’Università degli Studi di Milano.
Duration: 2020-2022 (18 months).
RISWAGEST - Novel water management approaches for rice fields
Aim: assessing the feasibility of Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) systems from an agronomic perspective, as well as obtainable yields, water savings and reduced GHG emissions, compared with continuous surface irrigation of rice fields in the Lombardy Region (North Italy).
PI: A. Facchi.
Funder: Regione Lombardia.
Partner: Ente Nazionale Risi, Università degli Studi di Torino, Consorzio di Irrigazione e Bonifica Est Sesia.
SOS-AP - Sustainable solutions for precision farming In Lombardy: variable rate irrigation and fertilisation for corn and viticulture
Aim: demonstrating and disseminating precision farming techniques for corn and viticulture in Lombardy, for optimising irrigation and fertilisation management.
LiRICA - Guidelines for the environmental recovery of irrigation channels
Aim: defining guidelines for protecting and enhancing the value of the rural irrigation network in Lombardy through environmental protection interventions.
PI: G. B. Bischetti.
Partner: Regione Lombardia, Consorzio Bonifica Muzza Bassa Lodigiana.
NUTRIPRECISO - Precision farming techniques in fruit production, viticulture and horticulture
Aim: disseminating precision farming techniques among fruit, veg and vine-growers in Lombardy (with a focus on irrigation and fertilisation of tomatoes, pears and vines) through workshops, seminars and new public engagement approaches.
PI: L. Brancadoro
Funder: Regione Lombardia, PSR 2014-2020.
Partner: CREA ORT, DICA (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Politecnico di Milano).
RISTEC - Novel cultivation techniques for future rice production
Aim: disseminating novel techniques such as winter submergence of fields, green manure of catch crops, conservation tillage systems, among rice farmers, for a more sustainable rice production, a higher efficiency of water/fertilizer/fuel/energy use, and reduced GHG emissions.
PI: A. Facchi.
Funder: Regione Lombardia, PSR 2014-2020.
Partner: Ente Nazionale Risi, Università degli Studi di Torino.
SMARTGREEN - A model for optimising the use of green infrastructures to mitigate negative urban stormwater effects
Aim: improving urban planning and management by developing models for assessing quali-quantitative impacts of the use of green infrastructures on stormwater flowing into drainage systems.
TREE:HERO - Tree distribution patterns: hillslope failure prevention through forest management
Aim: improving prediction, prevention and mitigation of landslide events by developing landslide risk models (which account for both traditional geotechnical and hydrological data, but also forest characteristics) that allow simulation of alternative forest management strategies and of their impacts on slope stability.
PIs: G. B. Bischetti, A. Cislaghi.
Funder: Fondazione Cariplo.
Partner: Università degli Studi di Padova, Berner Fachhochschule.
