Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC) is a public institution of research and higher education in the fields of engineering, architecture, sciences and technology, and one of the leading technical universities in Europe. It is both rooted in the territory and an international point of reference, serves society, works for inclusion and instils the vocation to serve, ethical values, intellectual rigour and a commitment to building a sustainable and fair world; it promotes the most appropriate teaching and learning methods for each educational environment and discipline, and transfers and disseminates the knowledge generated through research to society.

Areas of expertise bringing to the project: plant production under protected cultivation

Role in NEM-EMERGE:

• Co-leader of WP3 (Genetic selection: counteracting the outbreak of virulence in asexually reproducing root-knot nematodes)
• Co-leader of WP4 (Genetic selection: managing potato cyst nematodes that have overcome current host plant resistances) 
• UPC is contributing to WP1, WP2, WP3, WP4, WP5, WP7