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Collaborative Laboratory Mountains of Research, Association is a Private Non-Profit Association, whose members include research units, associated laboratories, and higher education institutions, technological centers and SMEs. It aims to implement research and innovation agendas in mountain areas oriented towards the creation of economic and social value.

Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB) is a public institution of Higher Education whose mission is to deliver a quality higher education, to promote Research and Technological Development, particularly in cooperation with the business community, and to contribute to the development of the Country and the Region, by providing technical, technological and scientific competences to the society. The relevance/impact of IPB’s activities is reflected in the top positions it occupies in international rankings: SCImago Institutions Rankings, U-Multirank and Shanghai Ranking. Mountain Research Centre (CIMO) is an Excellent National FCT R&D unit, conducting research on Mediterranean mountain systems and aiming to promote scientific and technological development and their transformation into global opportunities to mountain ecosystems.

CNCFS (Centro Nacional de Competências dos Frutos Secos) is a non-profit association, which exists to promote the development the sector of dried fruit in Portugal, including chestnut, almond, walnut, hazelnut and carob, trough the strengthening research, promoting innovation and with transfer and dissemination of knowledge. CNCFS organizes several trainings and/or entertainment events throughout the year and invests in the development of partnerships with various entities.

UNIST (University of Split) is a public higher education institution in Croatia, founded in 1974, organized in 11 Faculties, 1 Academy of Arts and 4 Departments. There are around 20,000 students enrolled in its undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate programmes. The focus of the research work carried out is on disciplines characterized by natural, cultural, historical, social, economic and other features of the region as a part of the Croatian Adriatic and the Mediterranean region as a whole. This involves research and protection of art and construction heritage, philology, field crops, oceanography and fishing, Adriatic botany and zoology, island and coastal economy, Adriatic tourism, maritime law, nautical science, naval architecture and a range of other specific disciplines such as chemical engineering, civil engineering, architecture, electrical and mechanical engineering, social sciences, kinesiology, humanities, health sciences, forensics.

UNIPA (Università degli Studi di Palermo) is a public teaching and research university. It is a consolidated cultural, scientific and teaching presence in central-western Sicily (Italy). Its 16 Departments cover the most important domains of contemporary scientific and technological knowledge. The Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences (SAAF) works in the areas of agricultural sciences, agri-food, forestry and environmental. The multidisciplinary context provides integration, according to a holistic approach, to the aspects of the exploitation of rural and environmental contexts.

Agricultural Research Organization (ARO) is leading the agricultural research in Israel in the last century. As the research authority of the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, ARO aims at improving the ways we produce food, and has the approved ability to conduct and disseminate effective research promoting sustainable agriculture. ARO provides technological and scientific competences to the agricultural research.

USMS (University Sultan Moulay Slimane) is a non-profit public higher-education institution, founded in 2007, located in the small city of Béni Mellal, Marroccos. Officially recognized by the Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur, de la Recherche Scientifique et de la Formation des Cadres, USMS is composed by twelve institutions spread over five cities. USMS provides a large and diversified knowledge and learning, with a wide range of basic and vocational training, namely for the areas of plant biotechnology, fruit tree adaptation to climate change, fruit quality and productivity and phenological modeling.

INRA (National Institute of Agronomic Research) mission is to undertake research for agricultural development. It is a public establishment whose origins date back to 1914 with the creation of the first official agricultural research services. It has recently undergone a structural reorganization aimed at modernizing its management process.