You can find the translation of the video here: – The chef, Nikolas Georgiou, would like to explain a few things. – Basically, we are the executive team responsible for the preparation of meals… – Yes, we are an executive team as well. – Yes, he will take a fork now and will begin food
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A mini organic market was held on March 7th 2017 in the premises of the Cyprus University of Technology, as part of the project activities. The event was held with the cooperation of the Cyprus Organic Farmers Association and the Green@CUT. Many members of the university personnel visited the market and bought organic fruits and vegetables in
The 2nd training course for local authorities and farmers took place on March 1st 2017, at the Federbio offices in Rome. Certification and controls in the organic sector, was the theme of this training seminar in order to highlight and to familiarize participants with the procedures and controls necessary to certify the production, processing and
The 3rd Italian awareness-raising programme took place in Rome on 17 February 2017. The event was organized in collaboration with Canapa Mundi 2017 and Federcanapa: Canapa mundi 2017 (http://canapamundi.com/language/en/). It’s the third edition of the annual event for the promotion of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa) widely cultivated in the past in Italy, before laws banned
The workshop took place at the Ministry of Economic Development in Rome on 16 February 2017. During the workshop the issues addressed, with the two key-note presentations by Catia Bastioli, Kyoto Club President, Member of the European Commission’s DG Research European Bioeconomy Panel and by Gianluigi Angelantoni, Kyoto Club Vice president, were the latest EU legislation
The study is one of the ORGANIKO LIFE+ project activities and aims to evaluate the potential benefits of systematic organic diet for children. The study’s specific objectives are to: i) determine whether the adoption of organic diet from children significantly reduces the body’s burden of chemicals (pesticides) and ii) to evaluate the efficacy of systematic
The theme of the third workshop organized in Cyprus by the Agricultural Research Institute, the Department of Environment and the Cyprus University of Technology on October 20, was “Organic Agriculture: Prospects for development, climate change and public health”. According to data presented at the workshop, there is limited penetration of organic products in the domestic
The associate professor Dr. Alex Lu from the Department of Environmental Health of Harvard University visited the Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health of the CUT under research collaboration. The professor presented his scientific findings which showed, for the first time worldwide, pesticides, especially neonicotinoids, to be associated with the global phenomenon of
Our participation at the Researchers’ Night 2016 event that took place on 30 September at the Filoxenia Conference Centre in Nicosia, included a discussion with children from high schools during the morning session about the ORGANIKO project, the organic food and health benefits. Students from all over Cyprus learnt about the importance of organic farming in climate change mitigation and
