JOINT MEETING PRIMA projects
Perugia, Italy, 10-11 June 2025
Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences in Perugia, AULA SEMPIO
(https://maps.app.goo.gl/sUsyv39D9YwvUMYn6)
ONLINE MEETING LINK: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/
Convenor: Prof. Michela Farneselli, Safe-H2O-Farm project coordinator
(michela.farneselli@unipg.it)
PROGRAM
Tuesday 10 June 2025:
WELCOME
8:30 – Welcome to The Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences
(DSA3), University of Perugia. Gaetano Martino (head of dept), Michela Farneselli,
UNIPG team
– Welcome from the project Officer MARCO ORLANDO2
8:45 WORKSHOP: Strategies to prevent and reduce water pollution and salinization
due to agri-food activities.
8:45 – 9:30 Project Presentations (overview, objectives, approach, impacts):
8:45 – NPP-SOL: Modelling and Technological Tools to Prevent Surface and Ground-Water
Bodies from Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution Under Mediterranean Conditions
(Antonio Coppola, UniCA, IT)
9:00 – Telenitro: New low-cost strategies of crop based on biodiversity and remote sensing
to reduce the application of nitrogen fertilizers in the Mediterranean area (Anna
Tedeschi, CNR, IT)
9:15 – Safe-H2O-Farm: Innovative farm strategies that integrate sustainable N fertilization,
water management and pest control to reduce water and soil pollution and salinization
in the Mediterranean (Michela Farneselli, UNIPG, IT)
SESSION 1: STRATEGIES TO PREVENT AND REDUCE NITRATE LEACHING
Chair: Francesco Tei, Safe-H2O-Farm, UNIPG.
9:30 – Keynote “Agro-hydrological modelling for preventing diffuse pollution from agriculture
“Antonio Coppola NPP-SOL, UNICA, IT
9:50 – Keynote “The importance of precise nitrogen nutrition for olives” Arnon Dag, Safe-
H2O-Farm, ARO, Israel
10:10 Improving regional simulations of processing tomato using remote sensing, Ehsan
Eyshi Rezaei, Safe-H2O-Farm, ZALF, GERMANY
10:25-10:45 Coffee break
10:45 Improvement of N fertilization management in greenhouse tomato using the VegSyst-
DSS and plant monitoring, Francisco Padilla, Safe-H2O-Farm, UAL
11:00 Optimizing Nitrogen Management for Pepper Cultivation in Morocco, Souad El Hajjaji,
Telenitro, MOROCCO
11:15 Optimizing Nitrogen Management for Melon Cultivation in Arid Southern Tunisia, Imen
Ayadi Telenitro, TUNISIA
11:30 Comparing Nitrogen Fertilization Strategies in Melon Cultivation: Planned Application
vs. Farmer Practices in Arid Ecosystems of Tunisia, Fatma Wassar, TUNISIA.
11:45 Use of biostimulants for reducing N doses in olive, Mona Mazeh and Damiano
Marchionni, Safe-H2O-Farm, UNIPG.
12:00 Use of biostimulants for reducing N doses in processing tomato, Muhammad Zubair
Akram and Flavia Carbone, Safe-H2O-Farm, UNIPG.3
12:15-13:30 Light lunch
SESSION 2: STRATEGIES TO OPTIMIZE NITROGEN USE AND PREVENT AND
REDUCE SALINIZATION
Chair: Niovi Christodoulou, Safe-H2O-Farm, CYPRUS
13:30 Keynote: “Physiological and molecular responses of olive to salinity”, Luca
Sebastiani, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
13:50 Long-term effects of irrigation of olives with recycled municipal wastewater, Alon Ben-
Gal, Safe-H2O-Farm, ARO, Israel
14:05 Irrigation management with treated sewage water: Safe-H2O-Farm, Adriana
Bruggeman, CYPRUS
14:20 Physiological responses of tomato due to salinity and different nitrogen inputs, Gulcin
Ece Bacalan Aslan, Safe-H2O-Farm TR_AU, Türkiye
SESSION 3: STRATEGIES TO PREVENT AND REDUCE OTHER POLLUTANTS
Chair: Chiaraluce Moretti,Safe-H2O-Farm- UNIPG
14:35 Efficacy of low-copper-content products against olive leaf spot disease and their
impact on olive oil quality”. Maja Jukić Špika Safe-H2O-Farm-CROATIA.
15:50 Future prospects for controlling bacterial plant diseases by reducing the use of
copper-based compounds. Anna Scian, Safe-H2O-Farm- UNIPG
15:00 Sustainable control of emerging pests: Bactrocera oleae and Halyomorpha halys.
Eric Conti, Safe-H2O-Farm- UNIPG
15:10- 15:30 Coffee break
Wednesday 11 June 2025:
8:00-19:00 SAFE-H2O-FARM TOMATO AND OLIVE RESEARCH FIELD TRIP
8:00 Departure from Parking of the Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental
Sciences (DSA3), University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
9:00 Visit open-field tomato research field at Papiano
11:00 Departure for Assisi
12:00 Lunch at “Le mandrie di San Paolo” -Assisi4
14:00 Roundtable: Opportunities for collaboration between PRIMA projects
15:00 Departure for Spello
15:30 Olive research field trail visits at Spello
17:30 Departure for Perugia
19:00 Reached at Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences (DSA3),
University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Organizing Committee
Michela Farneselli
Franco Famiani
Euro Pannacci
Muhammad Zubair Akram
Flavia Carbone
Beatrice FalcinelliJOINT MEETING PRIMA projects