Thematic areas
The GreenSys 2025 topics are intended to cover advanced technologies and management for adapt Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) to Climate Change:
• Topic 1: Greenhouse Environment and Climate Control.
1.1. Climate control technologies.
1.2. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in controlled environment horticulture.
1.3. Energy in controlled environment agriculture systems.
1.4. Modelling greenhouse environment.
1.5. Semi-protected cultivation systems (high tunnels, nettings and screen houses).
• Topic 2: Mechanization, Digitization, Sensing and Robotics.
2.1. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation in indoor production systems.
2.2. Digital twins.
2.3. Labor in greenhouses.
2.4. Precision horticulture and engineering.
2.5. Robotics and sensing in greenhouses.
• Topic 3: Crop production in controlled environment horticulture.
3.1. Crop management.
3.2. Fruit quality in greenhouse horticulture.
3.3. Plant genomics and breeding.
3.4. Modelling plant physiology.
3.5. Organic greenhouse horticulture.
3.6. Plant protection.
• Topic 4: Fertigation, water and growing medium.
4.1. Fertigation management.
4.2. Greenhouse crops nutrition.
4.3. Sensing plant water status and stress response.
4.4. Soilless culture and growing media.
4.5. Microalgae cultivation in photobioreactors.
4.6. Aquaponics production.
• Topic 5: Light in Horticulture.
5.1. Covering materials.
5.2. Lighting technology.
5.3. Effect of light on plant growth.
5.4. Plant factory with artificial lighting (PFAL).
5.5. Urban Horticulture.
5.6. Vertical Farming.
• Topic 6: Sustainable greenhouse production.
6.1. Circular bioeconomy in controlled environments.
6.2. Environmental impacts of controlled environment agriculture.
6.3. Life cycle assessment (LCA) in greenhouse production.
6.4. Carbon and water footprints.
6.5. Sustainable greenhouse systems and environmentally friendly technologies.
6.6. Vulnerability and resilience of protected crops against Climate Change.