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From June 17 to 21, 2024, the first meeting of the TERRASAFE project took place, with EDAFOTEC participating alongside partners from 12 countries. The TERRASAFE project, funded by the European Union under the HORIZON EUROPE program, has the general objective of significantly empowering local communities in Southern Europe and Northern Africa to face the growing threats of desertification, especially those accelerated by climate change. This will be achieved through the co-development, co-implementation, co-evaluation of cost-effectiveness, co-demonstration, co-dissemination, and co-promotion of the widespread adoption of nature-based, technological, and social innovations for the prevention and restoration of land degradation. To this end, technologies will be implemented in pilot projects in Cyprus, Spain, Italy, Romania, and Tunisia. EDAFOTEC will participate in these pilots by providing technologies that contribute to better waste utilization, improve soil quality, and increase soil water retention. ...

28 August, 2024

During the first semester of the Puerto Residuo 0 project (January-June 2024), the selection, sampling and characterization activities of the waste that will be used to prepare the artificial soil have been carried out. In addition, the dredged sediment that will be used and the soil where the pilot plot will be implemented were analyzed. These results will allow us to design the most appropriate artificial soil for the pilot plot in the second half of the project. One of the project activities is to evaluate the greenhouse gas emissions mitigation potential of artificial soils made from dredged sediment. During the first semester, the gases emitted by the selected sediment have already been quantified. In the image you can see the experiment to sample gases in the laboratory of the Uxafores research group, at the USC Campus Lugo. ...

25 June, 2024

TERRASAFE, a project in which EDAFOTEC Nature-Based Solutions participates as a partner, has just been approved by the European Union, within the Horizon Europe program.  It is a pioneering initiative that aims to empower local communities in Southern Europe and North Africa to successfully face the growing challenges of desertification through the adoption of nature-based social and technological innovations. TERRASAFE will be implemented in 5 pilot areas in Europe and North Africa that share a high vulnerability to desertification and simultaneously represent the 4 main types of desertification (vegetation decline, soil degradation, water scarcity and depopulation), with a high cultural and ecological social contrast. The project is supported by a transdisciplinary consortium with partners from eleven countries, including universities and SMEs, such as EDAFOTEC, being these companies the ones that provide the innovations, which will be developed in the pilots....

15 January, 2024

On October 2, the results of the call for pre-commercial Ports 4.0 projects, organized by Puertos del Estado, were published. EDAFOTEC's proposal, Puerto Residuo 0, aimed at designing the sustainable use of dredged sediments has been selected. We would like to thank the evaluation committee for its decision, in a process in which 116 proposals were submitted and 30 have been approved, and ours has been ranked 16th. We would also like to thank the Port of Seville, which has been a facilitator of the project to carry out the pilot, and the Ports of Avilés, Bilbao, and Vigo, which have shown their support for our project. ...

22 December, 2023

The C-Sink project, financed by HORIZON EUROPE, began its journey on June 1, once the financing agreement has been signed by the European Union. The objective of the C-SINK project is to deliver to the EC a comprehensive package of proposals to support a new or modified European legal/regulatory framework, allowing high-quality CDR technologies to be brought to the market. This package will contain pre-standards (in CEN format) that will cover the requirements and methodologies of sampling, testing, and QMS (ISO9000), on which to build monitoring, reporting, and verification systems. It will also include proposals to resolve: environmental, social impact, and governance issues, and the means to build trust in the market. There are several CDR (Carbon Dioxide Removal) technologies that will be validated in the project and Edafotec will contribute to the CO2 sequestration in artificial soils. Artificial soils made from suitable materials can store large amounts...

22 December, 2023

On the occasion of the completion of the BtoGSoils project, “Greening brownfields. “A circular technology for decontamination of industrial soils”, we held a webinar on 04/26/2023 to disseminate the objectives and the results. BtoGsoils is a soil decontamination project, distinguished with the European Union Seal of Excellence. Its execution was co-financed by FEDER Funds through Aid to promote Galician participation in the European Union Research and Innovation Framework Program (Horizon 2020) from GAIN....

22 December, 2023

EDAFOTEC and its scientific collaborator INDUROT presented at the World Soil Congress, held at the end of July and beginning of August 2022 in Glasgow (Scotland), the results of the BtoG project which is financed by GAIN (Galician Innovation Agency)....

22 December, 2023

EDAFOTEC has a representative in Colombia, Construedificar, since July 2022. Construedificar is a company focused on solutions for water decontamination for sixteen years and, through the alliance with EDAFOTEC, it will expand its field of action to contaminated and degraded soils. It is a pleasure for EDAFOTEC to expand its representation in Latin America, joining our subsidiary in Peru and our representative in Mexico, Black to Green. https://construedificar.com/...

22 December, 2023

In July 2022, Ana Machado, Scientific Director of Imflorestal, participated in the IX Iberian Congress of Soil Sciences (CICS 2022) held in Oeiras - Lisbon. She presented the Mindingsoils project, where the remediation of acid mine drainage by using artificial soils with biochar is evaluated. This project is coordinated by EDAFOTEC, with the participation of Imflorestal and Tharsis Mining, and it is financed with funds from the Horizon Europe program. The basic pillar of the MINE THE GAP initiative is to strengthen synergies between small and medium-sized companies in the mining sector and favor the circular economy....

22 December, 2023

C-SINK. Actions required to secure the large-scale deployment of the leading CDR approaches to meet EU climate targets Call: HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-01-01-two-stage. Execution period: 01/06/2023- 31/05/2027 The C-sink project started in June 2023. Edafotec is one of the 24 partners of the consortium, involved in different activities related to artificial soil technology. The main objective of C-SINK is to deliver to the EC a comprehensive package of proposals to support a new or modified European legal framework to bring high-quality CDR to the market. CDR means “carbon dioxide removal”. Some technologies can capture CO2 and store its C in the long-term, avoiding their return to the atmosphere. The C-SINK project will establish robust MRV pre-standards and policy strategies based on a comprehensive assessment of environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria relevant to CDR, facilitating the development of reliable quantification methodologies. MRVs means Monitoring, Reporting and Verification programs. The project includes 7 technologies...

20 December, 2023