Descripción del proyecto
Europa en busca de abonos alternativos
Los abonos son esenciales para la producción de alimentos. Con más y más agricultores que deciden producir de forma ecológica, la demanda de abonos orgánicos está creciendo. El objetivo del proyecto NOVAFERT, financiado con fondos europeos, es revisar al menos dos docenas de abonos alternativos que contengan nutrientes recuperados de diferentes flujos de residuos. En este contexto, se demostrará la viabilidad técnica, económica y medioambiental de los abonos alternativos, así como su uso seguro, para facilitar la sustitución de abonos artificiales y minerales. Además, el equipo NOVAFERT cartografiará los fertilizantes alternativos que se utilizan hoy día en Europa para crear un mapa de laboratorios vivientes orientados a los nutrientes. Los hallazgos mejorarán el uso eficiente y seguro de abonos alternativos y respaldarán la toma de decisiones sobre la valorización empleada en la recuperación de nutrientes.
Objetivo
In line with the Zero Pollution action plan, the “Farm to Fork” strategy and the new Fertilising Product Regulation, NOVAFERT will demonstrate the technical, economic, and environmental feasibility and safe use of a wide portfolio of at least 25 alternative fertilising products, containing recovered nutrients from all 6 different waste streams mentioned in the call, with the goal of facilitating the replacement of synthetic and mineral fertilisers.
NOVAFERT gathers 9 multidisciplinary actors to demonstrate the technical, economic, and environmental feasibility and safe use of alternative fertilising products. The environmental aspect will be covered by developing guidelines and a consensual method for environmental assessment of alternative fertilising products. The economic aspect will be covered by co-creating novel, circular and green business models. As such, NOVAFERT will reduce environmental impacts and external nutrient dependence in agriculture in 6 representative countries from Eastern, Western, Northern, Southern and Central Europe.
NOVAFERT will map existing alternative fertilising products across Europe and develop an Atlas of the nutrient-oriented living labs, and also will support the development of sustainable local value chains. By regionally contextualizing and interlinking all main recovering technologies and products, and technically connecting all value chains and key relevant stakeholders in 7 regional working groups and 7-10 lighthouse demo’s, NOVAFERT will foster the sustainable use and management of alternative fertilizing products in Europe. Moreover, NOVAFERT will develop a portfolio of support policies and legislative instruments suitable for local deployment in the EU regions through 7 specific action plans and 4 policy briefs. Thereby NOVAFERT will bring together the necessary information for efficient and safe utilizing of alternative fertilising products to help decision-making on valorisation employed in nutrient recovery.
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Convocatoria de propuestas
HORIZON-CL6-2021-ZEROPOLLUTION-01
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HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support ActionsCoordinador
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