National Research and Development Institute for Soil Science, Agrochemistry and Environment - ICPA jobs and careers

About National Research and Development Institute for Soil Science, Agrochemistry and Environment - ICPA

National Research and Development Institute for Soil Science, Agricultural Chemistry and Environment (ICPA), founded in 1970 and reorganized in 2004 as national institute, has as mission promotion and development of strategic research applied in the fileds of soil science, agricultural chemistry and involves both significant scientific contributions and specific consulting activities. ICPA is the leading national organisation in Romania for soil science and the environmental protection in agriculture. During the last years, ICPA developed GIS databases at national scale for soils, terrain and land use together with simulation models linked with these databases predicting crop yield under various management practices considering water and fertiliser movement in soils and crops. During the last period ICPA contributed to the implementation of various agro-environment regulations and directives: designation of nitrates vulnerable zones and action programmes for Nitrates Directive, designation of areas less favoured for agriculture, developing methodologies for applying sewage sludge directive, evaluation of the national potential for biofuels and biocarburants. ICPA is a modern institute with several facilities and an updated research infrastructure of soil physical, chemical and biological laboratories, as well as GIS specialized software. The institute has two laboratories with accreditation on ISO 17025:2018: Laboratory of quality evaluation and control for fertilizers and Laboratory of physical and chemical analysis for soil science, agrochemistry and environment. For the field activities, the institute has equipments used for field soil sampling.