January 23, 2025
ITINERIS – Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System – will build the Italian Hub of Research Infrastructures (RIs) in the environmental scientific domain for the observation and study of environmental processes in the atmosphere, marine domain, terrestrial biosphere, and geosphere, providing access to data and services and supporting the Country to address current and expected environmental challenges. ITINERIS coordinates a network of national nodes from 22 RIs (18 from the environmental domain, 2 from agri-food with strong link with the
January 22, 2025
Vertical haloponics: exploiting brackish water resources for sustainable, resilient and high valuable aquaponics productions The general objective of VerticHalPonics is to develop an innovative food production system by implementing an interdisciplinary approach that builds on animal sciences, plant physiology and horticultural sciences while also exploring their interconnections with economic and environmental sciences. The system could boost the economy in the aquaculture and agriculture sectors, work in different areas, provide livelihoods for the growing world population, stimulate the transition towards sustainable food
January 22, 2025
Biogenic nano-selenium fortified tomatoes: quality and safety in a green perspective Selenium (Se) is an essential micronutrient in many organisms, with antioxidant and anti- senescence effects. In some crops, Se can enhance the nutraceutical properties and delay plant senescence and fruit ripening. The Se4SAFE project investigates the biofortification of tomato fruit for fresh consumption
January 22, 2025
Development of a MUlti-SEnsor remote sensing approach from drone to earLY detect plant diseases: A tool for sustainable agriculture and food security. The project MUSELY aims at integrating imaging spectroscopy, Solar-Induced Fluorescence (SIF), thermal-infrared (TIR) and LiDAR remote sensing (RS) to develop novel multi-sensor methods to identify and quantify plant diseases. MUSELY will focus on Fusarium Head Blight of wheat and Fusarium wilt of Tomato, i.e.,
January 22, 2025
The ABRESO project (Abandonment and rebound: Societal views on landscape and land-use change and their impacts on water and soils) launched in 2021 within the Belmont Forum involves five countries: United States, France, Italy, Japan and Taiwan. The project aims to study the impact of land use
January 22, 2025
Rare Earth Elements in Urban and mining aReas: an EmErging Concern for soil (and human) heAlth Rare Earth Elements (REEs), vital in electronics and low-carbon technologies, are increasingly concentrated in urban, industrial, and mining areas, raising ecological and health concerns. Soils, as key REE sinks, may transfer REEs to plants, microorganisms, and the atmosphere. This project investigates REE occurrence, mobility, ecotoxicity, and source-sink
January 22, 2025
The MSW compost, derived from the municipal organic fraction of waste collected from the city of Florence (Tuscany, Italy), has been applied to typical crops of the Tuscany Region (olive tree, wine vine, sunflower and cardoon for the first year of research activity). For each crop, one plot (about 1 ha) has been subjected to different treatments in three different farms: conventional fertilizer as usually applied by the farm (control), MSW-compost, and MSW-compost
January 22, 2025
BIOpolymers from agri-food waste digestates for SMART release bioFERTilisers The BIOSMARTFERT Project aims to define the production chain of a new generation of renewable biofertilizers with a modulated release, described below as SMART release FERTilisers (SRF), derived from digestate of biowaste. The BIOSMARTFERT Project is therefore divided into three main phases: During the first phase, the following processes will be carried out: (i) dark fermentation process to produce digestate and volatile fatty acids (VFA): (ii) the VFAs produced will be used as feedstock
January 22, 2025
Il Progect GReen ENgineering solutions: a new LIFE for SEdiments And Shells 101114177 — LIFE22-ENV-IT-LIFE GREENLIFE4SEAS is a courageous project that stems from the urgent need to find out sustainable solutions for two strong environmental concerns: the fate of 200 million of m3 of sediments, often contaminated, dredged in EU every year and the disposal of 490,000 tons/year of shells, as one of the most impacting EU aquaculture wastes. GREENLIFE4SEAS will demonstrate the technical feasibility, full
