Title: associate professor

Association/Company: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

Biography:
Roberto Pastres è professore associato di ecologia presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Informatica e Statistica dell’Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia. La sua attività di ricerca riguarda la valutazione della sostenibilità ambientale dell’acquacoltura e lo sviluppo di modelli predittivi per la messa in opera di modelli gestionali basati sull’acquacoltura di precisione. Ha coordinato il progetto H2020 GAIN ed attualmente coordina il progetto INTERREG Ita-Slo BeBlue.

Speech session
Technological Innovation in Breeding

Speech
“Digital Twin for aquaponics: sustainability and optimization of production processes

Abstract
Recirculation Aquaculture Systems (RAS) allows one to save a large amount of water, which is very relevant for the adaptation to Climate Changes, Furthermore, nitrogen and phosphorus emissions are markedly reduced by coupling them with hydroponic productions. The management of integrated systems, however, is complex: to pave the way for their adoption within the programme area, the BeBlue project, https://www.ita-slo.eu/it/beblue, will develop a prototype of “Digital Twin”, for simulating in real time the functioning of these farming systems. The prototype will be validate using the data collected in two pilot plants producing:
1) seabream, seaweeds and glasswort;
2)  trout and microgreens.