The Romanian team promoting SoilCare at INVENTICA 2017
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Iasi, 28-30 June 2017 The SoilCare team from National Research and Development Institute for Soil Science Agrochemistry and Environment – ICPA Bucuresti took part in the 21st International Exhibition of Inventics, INVENTICA 2017 in Iasi, Romania and raised awareness of the SoilCare project. The exhibition participants and the national delegations had the opportunity to individually promote their products and achievements. The event also provided many opportunities for the participants to exchange new ideas and application experiences and to establish research or business relationships. Participants from both the research and business fields were interested in hearing about the SoilCare project, especially about the ways in which soil quality can be improved by applying cropping systems and techniques with high benefits both for the farms and the environment. Leaflets were distributed for those interested in SoilCare project.
The Polish SoilCare team has been busy disseminating
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Pulawy, 30-31 June 2017 The SoilCare Polish team from Institute of Agrophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, presented a poster on their work on fungal metabarcoding entitled “Fungal metabarcoding of soil fertilized with chicken manure” at the scientific conference: "Biodiversity of the environment - Significance, problems, challenges" in Pulawy, Poland. A poster entitled “Fungal metagenomes of soil amended with waste orgnaic matter” was also presented by the team at II Microbiological Symposium "Metagenoms of different environments" 29-30th June 2017. A further poster entitled “Metagenomic analysis of soil fungal community after application of mushrooms culturing leftover” was presented at the 51st National Scientific Conference "Environmental microbiology - an opportunity for safe living and biotechnological progress" 5-8th September 2107. The team has also been busy raising awareness of the project. They presented the project to students at the agricultural School in Czartajew and also distributed the SoilCare leaflets at the Science Picnic of Polish Radio and the Copernicus Science Centre - THE EARTH, in Warsaw. This is Europe’s largest outdoor event aimed at promoting science. For more information about the research work of the Polish team, please contact Jerzy LipiecThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
SoilCare presented at DG Clima Workshop on “Climate Action in Agriculture and Forestry"
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Brussels, June 1st 2017 - Melanie Muro from Milieu (WP7) presented SoilCare at the DG Clima Workshop on "Climate Action and Agriculture and Forestry" on 1st June 2017 in Brussels. The aim of the workshop was to bring together relevant H2020 and LIFE projects and provide a platform to exchange key findings and identify innovative approaches that could be taken up on a larger scale across the EU to help to implement the EU's climate commitments. Melanie presented the SoilCare project and our possible contributions to the realising the EUs climate change mitigation and adaptation ambitions. More information about the event can be found here. For further information, please contact Melanie Muro This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
SoilCare presented at final conference of LIFE project Operation CO2
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Palencia, May 17th 2017 - The SoilCare project was presented at the final conference of the LIFE project, Operation CO2, on 17 May in Palencia, Spain by Zuzana Lukacova from Milieu. The aim of the Operatioin CO2 project was to demonstrate the viability of forestry and agroforestry projects on carbon sequestration in Europe. SoilCare was invited to present, alongside other on-going projects, an overview of our work including the next step. The conference programme can be downloaded here. For more information about this event, please contact Zuzan Lukacova This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.