Discover our network of European projects, also dedicating efforts on addressing nutrients recycling and improving water and soil quality for a sustainable and healthy future !
FER-PLAY is a Horizon Europe project (2022-2025) which facilitates the uptake of alternative fertilizers to protect ecosystems, decrease EU dependence on fertilizer imports, foster circularity and improve soil health. The project mapped and assessed circular fertilizers made from secondary raw materials, such as manure or biowaste, highlighting their multiple benefits in order to promote their wide-scale production and use in the field.
The NUTRI-KNOW project aims to improve nutrient management practices in European agriculture through practical solutions. By collecting and translating innovative insights from various Operational Groups, NUTRI-KNOW provides farmers with accessible, actionable knowledge. The project encourages a hands-on approach to sustainable nutrient management through targeted knowledge exchange between farmers, researchers, and practitioners.
EU-FarmBook is a Horizon Europe project that is working at regional, national, and European (EU) levels to build an Online Platform. Gathering and sharing agriculture and forestry knowledge.
ROBIN is a cross-national 3-year long Coordination and Support Action (01/09/2022- 31/08/2025), supported by the European Union within the framework of the Horizon Europe programme.
ROBIN aims to empower Europe’s regions to adapt their governance models and structures in ways that accelerate the achievement of their circular bioeconomy targets while promoting social innovation and accounting for different territorial contexts.
bioSOILUTIONS is a Horizon Europe innovation project that strives to tackle soil degradation. The focus lies in optimising four different biowaste valorisation routes to develop advanced soil improvers.
SYNECO is a project currently being carried out by the Farmers Central Cooperative Society Ltd. (FCCS) in close collaboration with the cow (Koperattiva Produtturi tal-Halib) and pig (Koperattiva ta’ min Irabbi l-Majjal) cooperatives.
FCCS is the largest fruit and vegetable farmers’ cooperative in Malta. Through SYNECO, the FCCS will make the farmer a protagonist to help shape the future agricultural economic model. SYNECO will exploit the nutrients from the slurry and at the same time challenge climate and environmental issues more forcefully and directly.
STRATUS, extending over 60 months, aims to connect advisors across Europe for accelerating knowledge creation and sharing on Integrated Fertilization Management, supporting farmers to bring this knowledge into practice to achieve the ambition of the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies, thus reducing nutrient losses to the environment while maintaining soil fertility.
EcoDaLLi is the acronym for “ECOsystem-based governance with DAnube lighthouse Living Lab for sustainable Innovation processes” and a Horizon Europe project within the EU Mission “Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030”.
The main objective of EcoDaLLi is to centralise Danube governance structures in terms of innovative solutions for improved ecological restoration, protection and preservation of the Danube basin and its delta by forstering a stronger innovation ecosystem within a well-connected Living Lab system.
P2GreeN’s overall objective is to foster a paradigm shift, from a linearly organised resource and nutrient system within the agri-food supply chain, towards a circular material flow system between urban and rural areas thereby restoring the coupling of the water-agri-food system using a holistic symbiotic resource management approach following the 3R principle “Reduce, Reuse, Recover”.
The GREENHOOD project pioneers a comprehensive approach to address the global challenge of unbalanced nutrient flows in regional ecosystems. Operating across four European countries and one associated region, GREENHOOD focuses on re-balancing nutrient flows and reducing N/P emissions through five key strategies:
a) Participatory Approach,
b) Estimation of Maximum Allowable Nutrient Inputs,
c) Demonstration of Effective Nutrient Management Strategies,
d) Establishment of Regional Nutrient Circular Economy Schemes,
e) Innovative Governance Measures. Through these efforts, GREENHOOD aims to pave the way for societies to operate within safe ecological boundaries while meeting socioeconomic needs.
The overall objective is to reduce NWE’s dependency on fossil-based fertiliser imports with proven impacts on availability, ecological foot-print and price stability via transregional valorisation of recycled NPK from municipal, industrial waste and agricultural sector in Flanders, The Netherlands, Ireland, Saarland, Lower Saxony, Luxembourg.
ReNu2Cycle is building on the achievements of ReNu2Farm which provided basic and regional quantified fertiliser demand research.
The HarvRESt project aims to resolve land use conflicts between the energy and food sectors by integrating renewable energy systems on farms. This approach seeks to make farms climate neutral, optimize production, reduce the impact on natural resources and biodiversity, and provide energy services to communities.
The project addresses the barriers perceived by farming communities, develops a decision support system and promotes the integration of renewable energy on farms through four different use cases. It also acts as a knowledge hub for best practices in this field.
uPcycle will develop a new scalable approach for nature-positive sustainable phosphorus management. This approach will champion re-use and recycling innovations to address biodiversity loss, water quality degradation and societal impacts across freshwater and coastal ecosystems. uPcycle recognises that lakes are at the front line of phosphorus pollution yet clarity on impacts and solutions is urgently needed. uPcycle will foster an inclusive approach bringing together communities from basin to global scale.
FlashPhos is a HORIZON 2020 project funded by the European Union that will demonstrate at a large scale a thermochemical process to sustainably produce high-quality white phosphorus (P4) and other valuable raw materials using sewage sludge as input material. FlashPhos follows an economically and ecologically sound and climate-friendly circular economy approach. All output materials of FlashPhos will be used in the European industry, some of them substituting critical or CO2-relevant raw materials.
