Patafest Video Gallery

General videos

  • PataFest Project with UNIBO: Shell Waste into Biofertilizers for Sustainable Potato Farming

    Researchers at the University of Bologna (UNIBO) turn marine shells from aquaculture into biofertilizers rich in calcium carbonate: a chemical-free, bio-based solution for potato health.

  • Cultivating Collaboration: Bridging Science and Industry for a Sustainable Potato Future

    Amaia Ortiz (Neiker) and Ana Carrasco (UDAPA) discuss how bridging science, technology and industry can make the potato sector more sustainable and competitive.

  • Reducing Food Waste: From farm to fork | Insights from the Experts

    With Mª del Carmen Alamar Gavidia (Cranfield University) and Christian Ghidelli (FUNDITEC): the challenges and opportunities of reducing potato waste and building a more sustainable food system.

  • Protecting Potatoes: Safeguarding a Vital Crop

    Potatoes are a vital crop threatened by pests and soil-borne diseases. EPPO rules aim to keep new pests out of the EU, a risk that grows with globalisation and climate change.

  • PataFEST Project: Driving Sustainable Potato Protection and Postharvest Excellence

    PataFEST, "Cultivating resilience": sustainable integrated pest management against Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum and its vector, and against soil-borne pathogens in potato storage.

Training videos

  • PataFEST Webinar Series - 5: Engaging farmers in citizen science projects

    Fifth webinar, with ECSA: the motivations, challenges and real-world approaches to involving farming communities in citizen science research.

  • PataFEST Webinar Series - 5: Cómo involucrar a los agricultores en proyectos de ciencia ciudadana

    Fifth webinar, with ECSA: the motivations, challenges and real approaches to involving farming communities in research.

  • PataFEST Webinar Series -4: Engaging citizens in protecting plant health

    Held on the International Day of Plant Health with ROTATES, CERBERUS and PataFEST: how citizen science connects research and citizens to protect crops.

  • PataFEST Webinar Series -3: Citizens meets potatoes: Uncovering Plant Resilience trhough DNA

  • PataFEST Webinar Series -2: Citizens meets potatoes: Turning mussel shells into biofertiliser

    The mussel-shell biofertilizer developed by the University of Bologna: its composition, its trials in Germany, France and Spain, and citizen tests in Berlin urban gardens.

  • PataFEST Webinar Series -1: Citizens meets potatoes

    First webinar, with Christian Ghidelli (Funditec), Leo Mensel (ECSA) and Anna Verones (ECSA): PataFEST's goals, molecular biology workshops and the Open Soil Atlas.