INMA - the National Institute of Research - Development for Machines and Installations designed to Agriculture and Food Industry (http://www.inma.ro) is the only institute in Romania in research of agricultural machinery which started in 1927 when the King Ferdinand I promulgated the law for creating the first center for testing the agricultural machinery in order to boost research effort for the growing agricultural sector in a time when Romania was the main grain producer in Europe.
In its almost 100 years of existence INMA has established itself as the research and innovation provider of the agricultural machinery sector in Romania. Only for the last 5 years over than 50 new products/services/technologies and over than 200 national and international research projects are just a few examples of the prodigious activity of the institute which are acting in coordination of the Ministry of Research and Innovation.
The deep changes of the Romanian economy after the 1989 against the always speeding up dynamism of the global markets starting with 2000 have set additional challenges on the activity of the Institute which has extended its field of expertise far beyond the original set-up. With its 100 top researchers and engineers, INMA is proudly presenting itself as:
- An innovation leader in agricultural machinery, precision farming and bioeconomy;
- A top promoter of innovative entrepreneurship related to agriculture as it hosts the only technology business incubator in this sector in Romania;
- An internationalization hub and driver of transnational technology transfer as member of the Enterprise Europe Netowk;
- A player on the standardization field (in INMA is acting the Technical Committee TC77 "Tractors and machinery for agriculture and forestry”, in correspondence of the European and international committees, CEN/TC 144, CEN/TC 334, ISO/TC 23);
- A product certification body (INMA-CERT) notified by the European Commission for Directives 2006/42/EC and 2000/14/EC;
- A provider of specific technical equipment testings in accredited laboratories in accordance with EU practices and of technical inspections for tractors, trucks, trailers and cars;
- A cluster generator at national level (The Competitveness Pole IND-AGRO-POL, Silver labelled by ESCA until January 2018);
- A cluster policy advisor for the Ministry of Economy (INMA significantly contributed to the 1st cluster mapping and the establishment of the cluster policy back in 2010), the Ministry of Research and Innovation (where it contributed to the set up of the Cluster Financing Scheme under the National Research Programme, currently running, by catalyzing and adapting international best practice in the frame of the INTERREG Europe project Clusterix 2.0);
- A player on the international RDI and cross border cooperation scene with projects financed by Horizon 2020, Cosme, Interreg Europe, Interreg IV C, Leonardo da Vinci, Romania-Bulgaria and Hungary-Roamania cross-border programmes.
INMA - Official address, phone numbers and e-mail address:
Ion Ionescu de la Brad Blv, no 6, Sector 1, Bucharest, Code 031821, Romania
Tel. 0040 212693255, fax 0040 21 2693273, e-mail [email protected]
