September 2021

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The registration for the Organic Innovation Days 2021 is now open – join us and discuss organic research & innovation! This year, TP Organics' annual public event will take place online on 30 November – 1 December 2021, under the title ‘Better inputs for organic farming‘. For this edition of the Organic Innovation Days, TP Organics partners with the European … Read more

ERA-NET SusFood2 organises a Stakeholder workshop to inform a wider interested audience on the progress made by the projects and to explore the next steps to enable interaction between the research teams and stakeholders. The findings and results of the 12 SusFood2 co-funded projects will be showcased to improve sustainable food production and consumption. In addition to exhibiting … Read more

EIT Food Innovation invites applications from individuals with a view to establishing a database of independent evaluation experts who could be called on in connection with its Calls for proposals. EIT Food is a consortium of more than 200 partners from leading businesses, research centres and universities across more than 40 countries that has been selected by the European Institute … Read more

The ERA-NET CORE Organic Cofund launched its Third Call for research proposals in January 2021. The funding network consists of 13 funding bodies from 13 countries: Algeria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Italy, Morocco, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Turkey, committing around 5M EUR for transnational research call. The call followed a one-step evaluation procedure, with a total number of 24 … Read more

Under the Pillar 2 of Horizon Europe, Cluster 6 - Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture & Environment is central to the European Green Deal. It aims to reduce environmental degradation and tackle the biodiversity decline on land, waters, and oceans through transformative change to achieve a climate-neutral Europe within planetary boundaries. During the European Commission’s Info Days … Read more

TP Organics Member Technology Platform of Organic Agriculture Extremadura (PTAEEx), an Operational Group belonging to the European Innovation Partnership on Agricultural Productivity & Sustainability (EIP-AGRI), aims to group the entire value chain of organic farming into a regional technological platform promoting cooperation between agents and interested parties in the science-technology-company system of the sector. The aim of PTAEEx is to … Read more

All over Europe, organic greenhouse production systems are usually very intensive, which threatens their sustainability and the public trust in organic greenhouse production. Very intensive production systems lead to an increase of pH, high levels of soil salinity and an unbalanced nutrient supply. Moreover, the use of a broad … Read more

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