12h00 – Registration and welcome coffee

13h00 – Official opening of ESNI-NERM 2026

13h30 –  Plenary sessions

• KEYNOTE on the New Framework Programme
  Bertrand Vallet (DG RTD)
• KEYNOTE on the New Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
  Maria Fuentes Merino (DG AGRI)

14h10 – Panel discussion
“Bridging Research, Policy, Industry and Practice: R&D Needs for the Future of Nutrient Recycling”

Panel members

• Bertrand Vallet (DG RTD)
• Maria Fuentes Merino (DG AGRI)
• Ignasi Salaet (FERTINAGRO BIOTECH, Spain)
• Kris Ally (SmartRenure, Belgium)
• Laia Llenas Argelaguet (BETA Technological Center, Spain)
• Moderator: Erik Meers (Ghent University, Belgium)

15h15 – Coffee break + poster session

15h45 – Parallel sessions hosted by EU funded research projects

• CiNURGi project / FERTITEC project / FertiCOVERY project 
  “Scaling Circular Nutrient Solutions: From Regional Innovation to European Best Practice”
• EU-Farmbook
  “How EU-FarmBook Can Strengthen Your Research being implemented in Practice across Europe”
• RELEAF project & LANDFEED project
  “Tailored Technologies for resource recovery from Complex Streams”

17h30 – Drinks and poster session

19h00 – Closing Day 1

15h45 – Parallel sessions hosted by research projects

• CiNURGi project / FERTITEC project / FertiCOVERY project
  “Scaling Circular Nutrient Solutions: From Regional Innovation to European Best Practice”
  Location: main room, ground floor

This session showcases results from three EU-funded projects (CiNURGi, FERTITEC and FertiCovery) focused on nutrient recycling. Through expert talks, a keynote from the European Commission, and an interactive panel discussion, the session explores cutting-edge technologies, market challenges, and policy levers shaping nutrient recycling.

Attendees will gain insights into transforming waste into high-value fertilisers, advancing sustainable agriculture, and supporting the transition to a circular economy that reduces environmental impacts while strengthening nutrient resilience across Europe.

• EU-Farmbook (Syrah room, first floor)
  “How EU-FarmBook Can Strengthen Your Research being implemented in Practice across Europe”

EU-FarmBook, an open-access platform designed to make EU-funded knowledge easier to find and used by agricultural and rural actors. It brings together practice-oriented knowledge, tools, guides, videos and research-based insights from EU-funded projects — all in one place. The platform helps you quickly access credible, non-commercial, EU-backed knowledge, saving time while strengthening the visibility, quality, reliability and long-term impact of project results.

During this workshop, we will:

• Highlight how EU-FarmBook supports you, including smart search, multilingual access and practical materials you can directly reuse or recommend.
• Introduce the AI-powered tools for making life as a contributor ans knowledge consumer easier.
• Walk you through the key sections of the platform.

To summarize, this workshop will show how EU-FarmBook can work for you.

• ReLEAF project & LANDFEED project (Gamay room, first floor)
  “Tailored Technologies for resource recovery from Complex Streams”

This workshop will showcase innovative approaches to recovering valuable resources from complex bio-waste streams, drawing on real-world applications from the RELEAF and LANDFEED projects. Participants will explore how urban food waste, sewage sludge, fish processing residues, and other agricultural by-products as olive oil waste can be transformed into advanced bio-based fertilisers.

Technologies under discussion include enzymatic treatments, twin-screw extrusion, fermentation and hydrolysis processes. These methods enable the production of organic and inorganic fertilisers, a portfolio of different types of biostimulants and microbial biomass.

Wednesday 29 April  |  9h10 – 17h00

09h10 – Welcome + opening

09h20 – Plenary sessions

• KEYNOTE on the new EU Bioeconomy Strategy
  Agata Kotkowska (DG ENV)
• “Closing the Loop: Aquafin’s Journey and Vision in Phosphorus Recovery”
  Quinten Van haecke (Aquafin, Belgium)
• Processing the bioeconomy’s residual streams: digestate valorisation
  Laure Baillargeon (European Commission)

10h15 – Coffee break and poster session

10h45 – Parallel sessions hosted by EU funded research projects

• ReNu2Cycle project
  “Stakeholder feedback on Circular Economy Act as driver for Nutrient Recycling”
• Sempre BIO project
  “From concept to market: Microalgae cultivation for CO2 and digestate valorisation”
• NenuPhar project:
  “From Challenges to Policy: Enhancing Nutrient Policy Governance through Interregional Exchange” (part 1)

12h00 – Parallel sessions hosted by EU funded research projects

• Harvrest project  (+ Greenhood as guest project)
  “On-Farm Biogas Production and Environmental Sustainability Enhancement Through the Treatment and Utilization of Digestate”
• NutriBudget project
  “Integrating soil nutrient budgets into EU carbon policy: building a competitive agriculture”
• NenuPhar project
  “From Challenges to Policy: Enhancing Nutrient Policy Governance through Interregional Exchange” (part 2)

13h00 – Lunch break & poster session

14h00 – Industrial Success Stories

• Anke Valvekens (Detricon, Belgium)
  NUTRITIVE – Develop a decision-making tool for manure management strategies of a given livestock farm
• Paul Roeleveld (Haskoning, the Netherlands)
  Valorisation of phosphorus via the extraction of vivianite from sewage sludge
• Cristian Terrones (ICL Europe, the Netherlands)
  Phosphorus fertiliser made out of sewage sludge ash
• Ehsan Moslehi (EasyMining Services, Sweden)
  What a Waste: Industrialising Nutrient Recovery
• Wim Moerman (NuReSys, Belgium)
  Second generation P-recovery
• Dr. Joachim Clemens (Soepenberg, Germany)
  On-site P recovery from waste water – the iPHOS process

15h00 – NUTRI-KNOW Final Project Event 
“Exchanging easy-to-understand nutrient management knowledge with farmers and practitioners”

16h45 – Closing of the ESNI-NERM 2026 Conference

10h45 – Parallel sessions hosted by EU funded research projects

• ReNu2Cycle project
  “Stakeholder feedback on Circular Economy Act as driver for Nutrient Recycling”
  Location: main room, ground floor

The Upcoming new Circular Economy Act aims to target barriers that hinder the free movement of recycled and secondary raw materials. It seeks to simplify the regulatory framework and remove barriers to the functioning of the Single Market, and strengthen secondary raw material markets and in improve access to feedstocks.

The NWE Interreg project ReNu2Cycle has put forward a feedback paper highlighting the major barriers and solutions for the market entry of recycling-derived fertilisers.

In this interactive session, we will inform, discuss and collect stakeholder opinions and suggestions on perceived barriers and pathways to market that can be solved under the circular Economy act.

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• Sempre BIO project
  “From concept to market: Microalgae cultivation for CO2 and digestate valorisation”
  Location: Syrah room, first floor

This session will bring information on the microalgae activities within the SEMPRE-BIO project. Members from the three organizing institutions (UGENT, INNOLAB, UVIC) will make short presentations showing the advances obtained during the project implementation.

Afterwards, they will open the discussion with the audience on the opportunities and challenges for implementing this technology, focusing mainly on legal and acceptance barriers and how to overcome these.

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• NenuPhar project
  “From Challenges to Policy: Enhancing Nutrient Policy Governance through Interregional Exchange” (part 1)
  Location: Gamay room, first floor

Join NENUPHAR for an interregional dialogue on the future of sustainable nutrient management.

The first session unpacks the NENUPHAR project’s methodology for shifting from linear to circular business models, with interactive group work discussing barriers, testing feasibility, and mapping the actors who can turn strategy into real-world action.

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12h00 – Parallel sessions hosted by research projects

• Harvrest project + Greenhood
  “On-Farm Biogas Production and Environmental Sustainability Enhancement Through the Treatment and Utilization of Digestate”
  Location: main room, ground floor

HarvRESt showcases how integrating renewable energy systems (RES) into agricultural operations affects soil quality, crop performance and overall sustainability of agro-communities.

At the shared demonstration farm in Balaguer (Spain), which includes an on-site biogas plant, HarvRESt uses digestate from biogas production to evaluate solid and liquid fractions as fertilisers, quantifying nutrient use efficiency, emissions and leaching risks under real farm conditions. Building on these results, GREENHOOD advances the same setting by introducing enhanced nutrient recovery and treatment technologies, aiming to optimise nutrient management and circularity.

Together, the session illustrates a progression from assessing RES-derived inputs in practice to deploying improved, technology-driven solutions for sustainable nutrient cycles and reduced environmental impacts.

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• NutriBudget project
  “Integrating soil nutrient budgets into EU carbon policy: building a competitive agriculture”
  Location: Syrah room, first floor

Discover how smarter nutrient management can drive both climate action and farm resilience. This session explores practical policy pathways to accelerate the uptake of efficient, climate-friendly practices across agriculture and the agri-food value chain.

From soil nutrient budgeting to carbon farming, experts will unpack how regulatory frameworks and financial tools can unlock cost-effective solutions. Join the discussion on strengthening competitiveness while aligning with EU climate goals, and learn how policy instruments can best support farmers in this evolving landscape.

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• NenuPhar project
  “From Challenges to Policy: Enhancing Nutrient Policy Governance through Interregional Exchange” (part 2)
  Location: Gamay room, first floor

NenuPhar’s second session brings experts together to share good practices on measuring nutrient runoff, closing data gaps, and bridging science and policy. It is a hands-on opportunity to strengthen collaboration, test workable approaches, and unlock the environmental, social and economic benefits of more sustainable nutrient management.