The Agricultural University Of Athens “act[s] as valued advisor to the Greek State and other national organizations, as well as to the European Commission and other European and UN Agencies on agricultural issues, and to conduct a wide array of advent-garde rural development projects. AUA contributions address a wide range of issues related to diet and environmental protection significantly affecting the daily lives of Greek and Europeans citizens: food quality and safety, water resource conservation, biological farming, alternative energy sources, biotechnological applications in agriculture.
Division within AUA with a role or interest in biosecurity:
Department of Agricultural Biotechnology
“The Department aims at training highly qualified scientists who will actively contribute to the development and application of modern agricultural technology…. The AUA Department of Agricultural Biotechnology is concerned with a scientific and technological area of enormous interest for the Greek economy, since agriculture along with medicine are the most significant fields of biotechnological research and application.”
