FERTICYCLE   

New bio-based fertilisers from organic waste upcycling.

The EU is heavily import dependent for more than 90% of the nonrenewable phosphorus and synthetic nitrogen fertilisers consumed. This has large economic cost (more than €15 billion/y) and negative environmental impacts from fertiliser production and use. European farmers and fertiliser industry therefore urgently need techniques for increasing substitution of synthetic with waste-derived nutrients formulated into high-quality, bio-based fertilisers to fulfill the EU action plan on circular economy. However, this requires research into new processing, application and assessment and more innovative and entrepreneurial scientists capable of meeting these future needs – FertiCycle aims to to fill this gap.

PhD Fellows

FertiCycle will train 15 PhD fellows (Early Stage Researchers) who are clustered in five work packages according to the focus of their research, as illustrated in the figure below.

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Contact:  schrysanthopoulos@isa.ulisboa.pt

Country of origin:  Greece

Project:  pH modification of animal manures as tool for reducing emissions and improving fertiliser value.

Place of Enrollment:  University of Lisboa, Portugal

Principle Supervisor:  Prof. David Fangueiro

I am a Greek PhD student, currently living in Lisbon, Portugal. I hold an MSc degree in horticulture which reflects my passion for plants. In the Netherlands, I obtained an MSc degree in Biobased Sciences from Wageningen University. My internship placement as well as several projects I was involved in the Dutch environment allow me to further improve my skills in the Bio-based fertilizer sector.

The research areas I specialize are: Circular economy, waste upcycling and sustainable manure management.

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Contact:  y.zireeni@bangor.ac.uk

Country of origin:  Israel

Project:  The role of sulphur in nutrient supply from processed slurry and digestates

Place of Enrollment:  Bangor University, Wales, UK

Principle Supervisor:  Prof. David Chadwick

I am an Israeli-Arab/Palestinian early stage researcher (ESR).

Formerly I worked as an agronomist for the Israeli ministry of agriculture, as lecturer and translator for the economic cooperation foundation (ECF), and as a tutor at agricultural high school.

I graduated from the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
BSc. and MSc. in soil and water sciences

In my spare time I try to learn or develop new hobbies, exercise or visit beauty shops. I love travelling, food, science and art.

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Contact:  Samaya.ElHajjHassan@UGent.be

Country of origin:  Lebanese Republic

Project:  Economic Evaluation of the inclusion of bio-based mineral nutrients in the fertilisation strategies across the EU.

Place of Enrollment:  Ghent University, Belgium

Principle Supervisor:  Prof. Jeroen Buysse

I’m a Lebanese living in Ghent, Belgium. I had my BE in agricultural sciences and master’s degree in agricultural economics from the LU in Beirut. I also received a master’s degree in environmental and territorial development from a joint Erasmus + program between France and Lebanon. Following my graduation, I was fully engaged in the sectors of water, sanitation, hygiene, food security and livelihood in several humanitarian iNGOs.

My research interests predominantly lie in fields of bio-economy and climate change mitigation. 

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Newsletter 1 - June 2021

FertiCycle training off to a good start in spite of the pandemic

 

Newsletter 2 - August 2021

FertiCycle presented at stakeholder event in Denmark

FertiCycle Winter-school

Assessing the effect of different bio-based fertilisers on tomato/lettuce production and nitrogen dynamic towards the soil

If you want to go quick – go alone, if you want to go far – go together!

Air and water pollution from agriculture in Europe

Using upstream anaerobic digestion process-control to achieve minimal content of undesired trace elements

Designing pre-treatment and anaerobic digestion of biowastes for higher crop nutrient utilisation

FertiCycle partners with Ekobalans

Mono-digestion of pig manure

 

Newsletter 4 - February 2022

Slurry acidification influences the nutrients dynamics and greenhouse gas emissions

The investigations on the efficacy of an integrated system to manage dairy manure reached the last stage of the chain

Modelling the environmental impact of bio-based phosphorus fertilizers in European regions

International Fertiliser Society (IFS) poster submissions

Put the Philosophy back into the Doctorate of Philosophy

A very collaborative semester in Switzerland!

FertiCycle Courses Update!

 

Newsletter 5 - April 2022

Hydrochars production from digestates maize grown in a contaminated land

Strong FertiCycle presence at ManuREsource conference

In search of a greener fertilizer

Spectroscopic techniques and advanced analysis methods for characterization of bio-based fertilizers

Participation in International Conference on Zero Greenhouse Emission in High Productive Agriculture

 

Newsletter 6 - July 2022

FertiCycle Attends ManuREsource Conference

 

Newsletter 7 - September 2022

Summer Visit to Sweden

Internship at NMI (Nutrient management institute

Why secondment is one of the main training pillars of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions?

FertiCycle holds 3rd Annual Meeting

 

Newsletter 8 - January 2023

FertiCycle representation at the 1st Swedish Conference on Sewage Sludge Biochar

Pietro Sica and Tomas Sitzmann completed a one-week internship in SCAM SpA, a FertiCycle partner

FertiCycle Coordinator expertise presented at the European Commission

A secondment experience at University of Copenhagen

 

Newsletter 9 - March 2023

FertiCycle's Florent Kebalo presents to Master's Students at Paris Saclay University

Agronomic benefits of an integrated approach for optimisation of anaerobic digestion process

ESR-1 presentation at the annual congress of the Dutch association of technology in agriculture (NVTL)

Development and validation of the Van Soest method in potential feedstocks at Inno Lab, Belgium

Secondment at Aarhus University, Denmark, at the largest biogas test facility in the country

Newsletter 10 - July 2023

Nutrient uptake in crops following the application of acidified slurry

Being a Marie Curie PhD

Halfway through a Marie-Curie PhD. Challenges and lessons learned

Out of the laboratory and into policy-makers minds

Newsletter 11 - February 2024

FertiCycle making a policy impact at the ESNI event in Brussels

FertiCycle leaves large impression at RAMIRAN2023

Reflecting on the Marie Curie ITN Experience: Challenges, Highlights, and Recommendations

ESR Bios

ESR-1 Jihane El Mahdi Bio

ESR-2 Stamatis Chrysanthopoulos Bio

ESR-3 Jared Nyang’au Bio

ESR-4 Tomas Sitzmann Bio

ESR-5 Hellen Luisa de Castro e Silva Bio

ESR-6 Clara Kopp Bio

ESR-7 Khan Wali Bio

ESR-8 Mario Alejandro Alvarez Salas Bio

ESR-9 Yusra Zireeni Bio

ESR-10 Pietro Mendonca de Santis Sica

ESR-11 Florent Lelenda Kebalo Bio

ESR-12 Maja Rydgård Bio

ESR-13 Aslihan Ural Bio

ESR-14 Egor Moshkin Bio

ESR-15 Samaya El Hajj Hassan

 

FertiCycle Dissemination Activities

 

Oral Presentations

Poster Presentations 

 

Contact

Lars Stoumann Jensen
M: lsj@plen.ku.dk
Ph: +45 35 33 34 70
Paul Petersen
M: pepe@plen.ku.dk
Ph: +45 35 33 27 43

Funding

“This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No.860127”

Project: FertiCycle
Duration: 1 Jan 2020 – 31 Dec 2023

Network

This project is part of the BioRefine Cluster, an organisation that interconnects projects and people within the domain of biobased resource recovery, striving to contribute to a more sustainable resource management.  For more information go to there website at www.biorefine.eu/.  

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