Descrizione del progetto
Soluzioni di coltivazione per prevenire il degrado del suolo
Il degrado globale del suolo, che costituisce una crisi la cui risoluzione è urgente, affligge una percentuale di terreni dell’UE compresa tra il 60% e il 70% a causa dell’insostenibilità della loro gestione. In questo contesto, il progetto SOILUTIONS, finanziato dall’UE, si prefigge di porre rimedio a questo problema critico sfruttando il potere dell’innovazione e della collaborazione. Partendo dalle basi poste dai precedenti progetti finanziati dall’UE, SOILUTIONS ha riunito i principali partner del consorzio, sotto la guida di importanti iniziative come WaysTUP! e VALUEWASTE. L’obiettivo generale del progetto è quello di ottimizzare quattro distinti percorsi di valorizzazione dei rifiuti organici (idrolizzato di sangue, frass, N-struvite e K-struvite) per creare avanzati ammendanti del suolo a partire da tali scarti, progettati non solo per migliorare il recupero dei nutrienti dai rifiuti organici, compresi elementi vitali come azoto (N), fosforo (P) e potassio (K), ma anche per ridurre le pratiche di smaltimento in discarica e incenerimento.
Obiettivo
Soil degradation is considered a global emergency. 60-70% of EU soils are degraded due to unsustainable management practices.
SOILUTIONS aims to tackle this problem by building upon previous key EU projects involving key consortium partners and bringing them forward, the main ones being WaysTUP! (SAV-Coord., DRAXIS), VALUEWASTE (CETENMA-Coord., NURESYS, GAIKER and ENTOMO) and Scalibur (CSCP and G!E).
We will optimise four bio-waste valorisation routes (blood hydrolysate, frass, N-struvite, K-struvite) into advanced bio-waste soil improvers with the aim of enhancing nutrient recovery from bio-waste (e.g. N, P, K, organic matter) thus reducing landfilling and incineration.
These valorisation routes will render a range of bio-waste feedstocks, that will be combined in different formulations together with key additives (e.g. Non-Microbial Plant Bioestimulants -NMPB-, Microbial Plant Bio stimulants -MPB- and Controlled Nutrient Release Coatings -CNRCS), into at least five bio-waste soil improvers. They will be co-created by working along with three Living Labs (in Flanders– Belgium, Valencia and Murcia–Spain), involving critical soil sector actors (companies and entrepreneurs, end-users, research centres, public bodies and civil society) to guarantee a good market fit of the developed soil improvers, coverage of sectorial needs and compliance with regulatory requirements (e.g. new Fertilising Products Regulation). Moreover, we will design an upscaling roadmap and a circular business model for each valorisation route to engage entrepreneurs and relevant soil companies to foster the commercialisation of advanced bio-waste soil improvers across the EU.
SOILUTIONS long-term impacts will contribute to reach targets of key EU policies and international commitments including the European Green Deal and UN Sustainable Development Goals 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15.
Campo scientifico
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managemententrepreneurship
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcoating and films
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processes
Parole chiave
Programma(i)
Meccanismo di finanziamento
HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation ActionsCoordinatore
46003 Valencia
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