Descrizione del progetto
Tecniche innovative per la gestione del fosforo
Le pratiche agricole attuali provocano un eccessivo sfruttamento e lo spreco delle riserve terrestri di fosforo, che a loro volta comportano la presenza di ingenti flussi di fosforo nelle acque superficiali, a danno degli ecosistemi. Poiché tali pratiche utilizzano risorse preziose di fosforo e inquinano l’ambiente, l’UE ha presentato un piano d’azione per l’economia circolare con l’obiettivo di avanzare verso un’economia circolare del fosforo. Ciò richiede nuove collaborazioni di carattere interdisciplinare che forgeranno in maniera rivoluzionaria la governance del fosforo, introducendo nuove soluzioni di gestione dello stesso. Il progetto RecaP, finanziato dall’UE, formerà la nuova generazione di specialisti del fosforo affinché diventino «mediatori di conoscenza» nei vari compartimenti disciplinari, al fine di garantire cambiamenti radicali nella sostenibilità del fosforo nell’Unione. Il progetto formerà ricercatori in fase iniziale di carriera su cattura e riciclo del fosforo dagli impianti di acque reflue e acque dolci nonché sul recupero innovativo del fosforo e su tecniche di ripristino delle acque dolci.
Obiettivo
Phosphorus (P) is a vital input for agricultural production. Yet, current agricultural practices are overexploiting and wasting the earth´s P reserves, which are needed to meet the food demand of a growing human population. Currently, there is a large flow of P from mineable P rock through agricultural production systems to surface waters, where eutrophication severely deteriorates ecosystems functioning. Hence, P is polluting the environment, while at the same time valuable P resources are lost. This is the global P challenge! A challenge of planetary dimensions with potentially dramatic consequences for humans. Through its circular Economy Action Plan, the EU provides the regulatory framework to develop an economy where the value of products, materials and resources is maintained for as long as possible. Important steps towards a circular P economy includes establishing new interdisciplinary partnerships for creating strategies towards radical restructuring of P governance and for developing novel, interdisciplinary P management solutions involving multi-stakeholder participation at regional and global scales. RecaP will address these needs by creating a new generation of P specialists to become ‘knowledge brokers’ across disciplinary silos with their interdisciplinary skills, experience and networks, ensuring transformative changes in P sustainability in the EU. RecaP will not just explore the technical aspects of the global P challenge, but also where such solutions can be implemented in a way that is socially, economically, and environmentally acceptable. ESRs will focus on capture and recycling of P from wastewater and freshwater systems, novel P recovery techniques, strategies to improve crop utilization of P, novel freshwater restoration techniques, as well as barriers and enablers to policy and economic transformation to support recycling. All activities are connected to one another in order to create novel insights that can help create new P governance.
Campo scientifico
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processesrecycling
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processes
- social sciencessociologygovernance
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculture
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
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MSCA-ITN - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN)Coordinatore
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