Time: September 28-29, 2020 (2 half-days 8:00-12:00 AM CET time and 2-6 PM Beijing time)
Venue: Online/ZOOM
This year marks 10 years of successful collaboration between NIBIO and HAAS. Through the decade, NIBIO and HAAS have got to know each other and become friends through the participation and efforts of many colleagues at both organizations and in key research areas such as plant health, soil and fertilizer research, biochar, animal health and AMR. We would have had a big conference to celebrate our 10-year anniversary and met face to face if the covid-19 pandemic had not occurred. However, the corona virus cannot hinder our friendship and celebration of 10 years of fruitful collaboration with joint research projects, joint publications, PhD student visits to NIBIO, joint conferences and workshops as well as staff exchange and visits. Last but not least, we have a few ongoing projects (e.g. Sinograin II) and proposals (EU-China H2020 SFS Healthy soil for healthy food production, which NIBIO leads and in which HAAS is one of the Chinese partners). The NIBIO-HAAS conference 2020 will thus be held as a virtual conference using the online ZOOM platform. Friends and colleagues at NIBIO and HAAS will meet digitally!
Monday 28th September 8:00-12:00 AM (CET) and 2-6 PM (Beijing time)
Opening session (Session Chair Jihong Liu Clarke, Research Professor and Coordinator for China Relations, NIBIO)
08:00-08:20 Welcome address: 10 years of successful collaboration between NIBIO and
HAAS – Nils Vagstad, Director General, NIBIO,
08:20-08:40 Black soil and food security, the role of Heilongjiang province –Zhaohui Shi,
vice minister of Heilongjiang provincial ministry of Science and Technology
08:40-09:00 Opening speech – Leif Forsell (or NN from LMD)
09:00-09:20 Opening speech: importance of international cooperation in Heilongjiang
province - Shengbin Li, Deputy director of Heilongjiang Provincial Foreign Affaires
09:20-09:40 Achievements and future directions of HAAS-NIBIO collaboration – Liu Di,
Party Secretary General, Vice President and Professor, HAAS,
09:40-10:00 Norway-China and EU-China cooperation on S&T&I- the Research Council of
Norway (RCN)’s China strategy – Thomas Hansteen, senior adviser, RCN,
Session 2: Plant and animal health and sustainability (Session Chair Yongcai
Lai, Professor and vice president of HAAS)
10:00-10:20 Plant Health Year 2020- FAO’s important role and vision- Dongxin Feng, Chief, Partnerships and UN Collaboration Division, FAO
10:20-10:40 Plant Health Year 2020 – NIBIO’s plant health research and HAAS
collaboration in plant health – Arne Hermansen, Division Director, Biotechnology and Plant Health Division, NIBIO,
10:40-11:00 Food security and plant health challenges in Africa - Norwegian experience –
Odd Eirik Arnesen, Senior Adviser, The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
11:00-11:20 Animal health and African Swine Fever- Min pig research at HAAS –
Liu Di, Party Secretary General, Vice President and Professor, HAAS
11:20-11:40 Prevention and control of African Swine Fever in Europe – Carlos Gonçalo das
Neves, Director of Research and internationalization, Norwegian Veterinary Institute
11:40-12:00 Environmental health (soil, water and ecosystems) – Per Stålnacke, Director of
Research, NIBIO
12:00-12:05Wrap-up Day 1
Tuesday 29th September, 8:00-12:00 AM (CET) and and 2-6 PM (Beijing time)
Session 3 Climate smart agriculture and food security
(Session Chair: Ragnar Våga Pedersen, Director of Communication, NIBIO)
08:00-08:20 Impact of the covid-19 pandemic on global agricultural market and food security
- Xiande Li, Professor of CAAS, and Member of High Level Panel of Experts of the
UN Committee on World Food Security
08:20-08:40 Precision agriculture for climate and environmentally friendly food production –
Audun Korsæth, Division Director, Food and Society, NIBIO
08:40-09:00 EU - China and Norway - China collaboration on urban agriculture – Jihong Liu
Clarke, Research Professor and Coordinator for China Relations, NIBIO
Three parallel sessions (09:00-11:30)
Session 4: Black soil and food production (Session Chair: He Ning, director of international office, HAAS)
09:00-09:20 Black soil health and fertility restoration - Guiqing Han, Chairman of Global
Alliance of Black Soil, FAO, ex-President, HAAS
09:20-09:40 Soil health and black soil in Norway - China collaboration - Erik Joner,
Research Professor, NIBIO
09:40-10:00 Black soil health card, Sinograin II project outcome - Nicholas Clarke, Research
Professor, NIBIO
10:00-10:20 Black soil fertility restoration – Xingzhu Ma, Deputy director of Soil and
Fertilizer institute, HAAS
10:20-10:40 Soil health and fertilizer research – Marianne Bechmann,Research
Professor, NIBIO
10:40-11:00 Biochar’s role for soil health and SOC –Genshen Pan, Professor, Nanjing
Agricultural University,
11:00-11:20 Biochar for soil remediation and biochar research at NIBIO – Daniel Rasse,
Head of Department and Research Professor, NIBIO
11:20-11:30General discussion – everybody
11:30Return to the general session (closing session)
Session 5: Circular economy- recycling of organic wastes for energy and fertilizer production (Session Chair: Per Stålnacke, Director of Research, NIBIO)
09:00-09:20 Waste management and circular economy Norway-China collaboration – LMD
(TBC), Norway
09:20-09:40 Recycling of organic wastes for biogas and fertilizer production - Roar
Linjordet (and Michal Sposob), Research Professor, NIBIO
09:40-10:00 Recycling of agricultural wastes for food production in China – Jie Liu,
Director, Institute of Rural Energy, HAAS
10:00-10:20 Waste-derived fertilizers for urban food production using hydroponic systems –
Michel Verheul, Senior Researcher, NIBIO
10:20-10:40 Different compost technologies - Qing Chen, Professor, China Agricultural
University, Beijing
10:40-11:00 Wastewater management and urine derived fertilizers - Trond Mæhlum, Senior
Researcher, NIBIO
11:00-11:15 Convertinganimal manure to valuable products –Yanzhong Feng, Senior
researcher, Institute of Animal Husbandry, HAAS
11:15-11:30 General discussion
11:30 Return to the final session
Session 6: Communication, staff exchange and friendship – 10-years of NIBIO-HAAS collaboration (Session Chair:Arne Hermansen, Division Director, NIBIO)
09:00-09:20 Good communication and friendship pave the road for successful Sino-
Norwegian collaboration - Ragnar Våga Pedersen, Director of Communication,
NIBIO
09:20-09:40 HAAS’s experience and friendship with NIBIO - Guo Mei, Senior Research
Scientist, Potato Research Institute, HAAS
09:40-10:00 NIBIO-HAAS collaboration on potato viruses - Carl Spetz, Research Scientist,
NIBIO
10:00-10:20 HAAS - NIBIO successful collaboration on fertilizers – Xueli Chen, Senior
Research Scientist and Group Leader, HAAS
10:20-10:40 The first impression: friendship promotes successful collaboration - Siri Elise
Dybdal, Senior Communications Adviser, NIBIO
10:40-11:00 From HAAS to NIBIO, one year’s experience and its impact - Xingzhu Ma,
Senior Research Scientist, HAAS
11:00-11:20 Friendship through nematode research collaboration - Wenzhong Wang, HAAS,
and Ricardo Holgado, NIBIO
11:20-11:30 General discussion
11:30 Return to the closing session
Closing session (General session): 11:30-12:00
NIBIO-HAAS collaboration- past, present and future
11:30-11:45 Closing remarks by Liu Di, Party Secretary General and Vice
President, HAAS
11:45-12:00 Closing remarks by Nils Vagstad, Director General, NIBIO
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