Yet another flagship launched
AGRO’s flagship ”Sustainable Nutrient Management” had its kickoff meeting on June 15, 2017 in Foulum. This is the third of the department’s four flagships that has been launched.
”Sustainable Nutrient Management” is an area in which the department already has extensive activities in most of its sections and in which individual researchers and the department are highly profiled. So what could a flagship do to help? I have thought about this question and I am no doubt not the only one who has done so.
The kickoff meeting for the flagship ”Sustainable Nutrient Management”, where approximately 25 VIP from four AGRO sections participated, gave optimism with regard to the justification of the flagship. With regard to soil nutrients, we have a depth and range in AGRO that is unique.
We have expertise with regard to a wide range of nutrients from the level of process to field, farm, landscape and sector, and can link it all together in a scale-authentic and applied manner. All in all, we have significant expertise and a strong culture that very few other environments in the world can muster.
The flagship can help raise this profile. At the meeting it became obvious that a significant role for the flagship will be to make connections across the sections and that broad involvement is important.
The kickoff meeting gathered input to the flagship’s content and function in seven areas, i.e. extent, overlap with other flagships, the flagship’s role, target groups and visibility, research platforms, key projects, education and talent development, and contribution to policy support. This has resulted in a whole catalogue of proposals that will be processed and will result in an action plan and a communication plan for ”Sustainable Nutrient Management”.