FertiCycle – Training researchers to produce bio-based fertilisers

Rapid increases in food production will be needed to feed the world’s population – expected to rise from 7.7 billion people to 9.7 billion by 2050. This involves direct investment in agriculture. Just as important is the development of a circular bioeconomy to improve resource efficiency and contribute to a more sustainable farming sector. It is also important to move away from mineral-based fertilisers as these depend on the import of phosphate rock, a limited resource.

The objective of FertiCycle is to train 15 early stage researchers (ESR) to develop new processes for production of bio-based fertilisers, recycling wasted resources and to estimate the market potential and sustainability challenges of their production and use.

The training program aims to enable the ESR to generate, integrate and apply inter-disciplinary knowledge for developing new technical solutions for bio-based fertiliser production, management and marketing, and will give them competences for inter-sectoral work and international collaboration in industry and academia.

FertiCycle outcomes will be 15 trained scientists; required technologies, knowhow and market concepts from which innovative new bio-based fertiliser products can develop to proof-of-concept level with industry.

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Project coordinator

Kobenhavns Universitet, Denmark

Project partners

Wageningen University, Netherlands
Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich, Switzerland
Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Bangor University, United Kingdom
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement, France
Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
United Experts, Belgium

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