SERVICIO REGIONAL DE INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO AGROALIMENTARIO DEL PRINCIPADO DE ASTURIAS

Their core work

SERIDA is the regional agrifood research institute of Asturias, Spain, focused on improving crop varieties, animal production, and food quality for the region's agricultural sector. Their H2020 work centers on plant breeding (especially vegetables and legumes), genetic resource conservation, and integrating multi-omics data across animal and plant domains. They bring practical field-level expertise in fruit quality, meat quality, and plant growth — connecting genomic research to tangible agricultural outcomes.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

With only three projects starting between 2018 and 2020, the evolution window is narrow but a clear pattern emerges. The earliest project (BRESOV, 2018) was purely agricultural — focused on plant breeding for organic farming. The two later projects (INCREASE and GLOMICAVE, both 2020) layer digital technologies like AI, blockchain, NLP, and multi-omics integration onto that agricultural foundation, signaling a shift toward data-driven agrifood research.

SERIDA is moving from traditional plant and animal research toward digitally-enabled agrifood science, making them increasingly relevant for projects that combine biological expertise with data integration and AI.

How they like to work

SERIDA participates exclusively as a consortium partner, never as coordinator — typical of a regional research center contributing domain-specific expertise to larger European efforts. With 59 unique partners across 22 countries from just 3 projects, they join large, broad consortia rather than small focused teams. This suggests they are comfortable operating within complex multi-partner projects and can integrate into established consortium structures without friction.

Despite only three projects, SERIDA has built connections with 59 partners across 22 countries, reflecting their participation in large pan-European consortia. Their network spans broadly across Europe without a visible geographic concentration.

What sets them apart

SERIDA sits at the intersection of traditional agrifood field research and emerging digital tools — a combination not common among regional research centers. Their dual expertise in biological domains (plant breeding, animal reproduction, food quality) and data technologies (multi-omics, NLP, blockchain) makes them a practical bridge between wet-lab science and data science in agriculture. For consortium builders, they offer a grounded Spanish partner with real agricultural testing capacity and growing computational skills.

Highlights from their portfolio

• GLOMICAVE
  Their largest single grant (€356K), combining NLP, multi-omics, and data integration across animal, plant, and environmental sectors — an unusually broad scope for a regional agrifood center.
• INCREASE
  A long-running project (2020-2026) applying blockchain, AI, and citizen science to food legume genetic resources — representing SERIDA's most digitally ambitious participation.