Vision
The Institute’s vision is to become a leading research institute at the intersection of agricultural and food research from an agroecological perspective. It promotes an active commitment to smart scientific specialisation through collaboration and impact generation. To this end, the Institute embraces excellence as an organisational culture, creating an attractive scientific environment that supports competitive research careers and fosters the development of leading multidisciplinary teams that create new knowledge and solutions to the most pressing challenges facing agri-food systems.
Mission
The aim is to promote an interdisciplinary and excellence-driven research environment with the capacity to generate new knowledge and solutions that contribute to the transition towards an agri-food system that can ensure and deliver healthy, safe and resilient food in a context shaped by major global changes, including climate change. This system must also preserve biodiversity and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Values
Differentiated research: implemented through a scientific agenda specialized in agroecology and food systems.
Scientific excellence: the centre’s scientific competence establishes excellence as both a goal and a guiding culture in the shaping of its research staff and organizational structure.
Collaboration and interdisciplinarity: among the Institute’s own research staff, as well as with other research units and stakeholders across the agri-food sector.
International positioning: promoting collaboration with leading researchers and reference centers, and strengthening competitiveness in international funding programs and frameworks.
Alignment with major global challenges: research priorities and lines of work aligned with European and global policy and R&D&I priorities.
Sustainability: seeking sustainable solutions to the major contemporary and future challenges facing agri-food systems.
Commitment to equal opportunities: recognition of cultural, demographic, and social diversity, with a particular focus on gender equality as a means to enhance research quality and contribute to scientific excellence.