Annual Report 2019

Annual Report 2019

Major facts:

• In 2019, the Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry (hereinafter LAMMC): employed a total staff of 545, including 185 research workers, and had 61 doctoral students.
• Carried out 32 international, 37 national research projects funded by the Research Council of Lithuania, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Environment, fulfilled over 100 contract orders for national and foreign economic entities.
• Implemented 6 long-term institutional research programmes.
• 5 agricultural crop varieties were included in the EU Common Catalogue of Varieties of Agricultural Plant and Vegetable Species and in the Lithuanian National List of Plant Varieties, 3 varieties were included only in the Lithuanian National List of Plant Varieties.
• LAMMC researchers published 85 scientific publications in the journals indexed in the Clarivate Analytics Web of Science (hereinafter CA WoS), 4 chapters in the books published by the internationally acclaimed publishing houses, 30 publications in Q1 journals and 17 in Q2 journals.
• 9 LAMMC doctoral students defended dissertations.
• Arranged 2 international, 8 national conferences, more than 80 workshops, discussions, field days, experience sharing group meetings, exhibition of agricultural machinery and technologies “Agrovizija 2019”.
• LAMMC, the Center for Physical Sciences and Technology (FTMC), the Lithuanian Energy Institute (LEI) and the Science and Technology Park of Institute of Physics established the Research and Technology Organization – RTO Lithuania.
• LAMMC joined the European Plant Science Organization (EPSO).
• LAMMC programme for support for academic visits was approved.