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RESAFE: Innovative Fertilizer from Urban Waste, Bio-char and Farm Residues

RESAFE aims to demonstrate the production and use of fertilizers made from urban waste, bio-char, and farm residues as a substitute for chemical fertilizers. The project aims to reduce costs for farmers and waste managers while achieving environmental and economic benefits.

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RESAFE: Innovative Fertilizer from Urban Waste, Bio-char and Farm Residues

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  1. LIFE12 ENV/IT/356 «RESAFE»«Innovative fertilizer from urban waste, bio-char and farm residues as substitute of chemical fertilizers» 6 MONTH MEETING July, 10, 2014 Murcia (Spain) CEBASCSIC Premises

  2. LIFE12 ENV/IT/356 «RESAFE» Agenda • 11:00 [CEBASCSIC] Welcome and opening of the meeting • 11:05 [All] Actions carried out by each partner and scheduled activities till the end of June 2014. • 12:00 [All] Open discussion on actions carried out • 12:15 [All] RESAFE Technical future issues: • [DICMA] Technical activities scheduled in the next six months of the project • [All] Open discussion on actions to be carried out in the next six months of the project

  3. LIFE12 ENV/IT/356 «RESAFE» Agenda 13:00 [DICMA] Management and dissemination issues 13:05 [All] General questions 13:10 End of progress meeting 13:15 Tour of CEBASCSIC premises 14:00 Lunch

  4. LIFE12 ENV/IT/356 «RESAFE» Main Information Title: LIFE12 ENV/IT/356 - «RESAFE» «Innovative fertilizer from urban waste, bio-char and farm residues as substitute of chemical fertilizers» Duration: 24 Months Number of benificiaries: 5 Start date: 01 January 2014 End date: 31 December 2016

  5. BENEFICIARIES • DICMA (Italy): Coordinator of the project. Expert in agricultural waste and environmental test; • ASTRA (Italy): Italian waste and agricultural expert, in field testing; • ENEA (Italy): Waste expert; • ENIA (Cyprus): Cypriot agricultural expert and in field testing; • CEBAS (Spain): Spanish agricultural analysis and in field testing

  6. PROJECT OBJECTIVES Main Objective The MAIN OBJECTIVE of the project is: • to demonstrate the production and use of fertilizers characterized by reduced salinity in order to substitute chemicals and mineral fertilizers through a technological route based on urban organic waste, bio-char and farm organic residuesprocessing. • For farmer and urban waste managers, to reduce costs and obtain environmental and economical incomes that is: • an important material recovery (e.g. reduced quantities of waste sent to landfill disposal and related costs saving) and • a further economic benefit due to the obtained fertilizers.

  7. B. TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION ACTION B1 - Demonstration of proper recipes through the characterisation of organic waste and final products B2 - Demonstration of HQ-ORBP (High Quality Organic Matter Based Product) production at laboratory level B3 - Demonstration of HQ-ORBP (High Quality Organic Matter Based Product) production at (pilot) semi-industrial scale B4 - Demonstration of Agriculture Application in Italy B5 - Demonstration of Agriculture Application in Spain B6 - Demonstration of Agriculture Application in Cyprus

  8. C. TECHNICAL MONITORING ACTION C1 - Monitoring of organic waste and final products C2 - Monitoring and assessment of environmental impact of the HQ-ORBP (High Quality Organic Matter Based Product) production C3 - Monitoring of environmental benefit of Agriculture Application in Italy C4 - Monitoring of environmental benefit of Agriculture Application in Spain C5 - Monitoring of environmental benefit of Agriculture Application in Cyprus C6 - Monitoring of technical-socio-economic assessment of the HQ-ORBP production

  9. PROJECT TIMING

  10. C. Technical Actions carried out by each partner in the last six months B1 - Demonstration of proper recipes through the characterisation of organic waste and final products B2 (start) - Demonstration of HQ-ORBP (High Quality Organic Matter Based Product) production at laboratory level C1 - Monitoring of organic waste and final products C2 (start) - Monitoring and assessment of environmental impact of the HQ-ORBP (High Quality Organic Matter Based Product) production

  11. Technical Actions carried out by each partner in the last six months • Presentationsof: • DICMA • CEBAS • ENEA • ASTRA • ENIA

  12. Technical Actions carried out by each partner in the last six months [All] Open discussion on actions carried out

  13. D. DISSEMINATION D1 – Project website D2 – Notice board D3 – Layman’s report D4 – Diffusion material preparation D5 – Articles and press releases D6 – Networking D7 – RESAFE technology manual D8 – Demonstration workshop, seminars, conference and other events D9 - Dissemination to Institutions and policy makers D10 – International fairs and other events D11 – Digital supports for international diffusion

  14. D. DISSEMINATION ACTIONS IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS D1 – Project website D2 – Notice board D4 – Diffusion material preparation D5 – Articles and press releases D6 – Networking D8 – Demonstration workshop, seminars, conference and other events D9 - Dissemination to Institutions and policy makers D10 – International fairs and other events D11 – Digital supports for international diffusion

  15. D. DISSEMINATION ACTIONS IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS • D1 – Project website • RESAFE website in English and in Italian: www.liferesafe.com • CEBASCSIC ispreparing the Spanishversion • ENIA ispreparing the Cypriotversion • Eachbeneficiaryisimplementing the link between the RESAFE website to the beneficiary website

  16. D. DISSEMINATION ACTIONS IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS • D2 – Notice board • DICMA produced 15 RESAFE Notice boards and gave them to all the beneficiaries during the kick-off meeting • All the beneficiaries put the RESAFE Notice board in a public space • All the beneficiaries are going to send the photos of the RESAFE Notice board in a public space in each beneficiary premises and in the demonstration plants

  17. D. DISSEMINATION ACTIONS IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS • D4 – Diffusion material preparation • 3,000 RESAFE brochures (1,500 in English and 1,500 in Italian) • RESAFE power point presentation in English and in Italian • 1 roll-up • 1 tissue poster • 500 RESAFE cups • 500 RESAFE pens • 500 RESAFE notebooks • definition of Italian project gadgets

  18. D. DISSEMINATION ACTIONS IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS • D5 – Articles and press releases • 2 articles related to the participation at the CNR LIFE event at Pisa on 25th March 2014 • University electronic advise of the kick-off meeting

  19. D. DISSEMINATION ACTIONS IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS • D6 – Networking • Contacts with SOREME, BIOREM, After-Cu, GREEN SITE, SOILPRO, SEKRET, EVERGREEN, GREENWOOLF (LIFE 11-12-13 projects) • Participation at the CNR LIFE event at Pisa on 25th March 2014 • Networking meeting with LIFE CarbONfarm on 24 February in Naple2014

  20. D. DISSEMINATION ACTIONS IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS • D8 - Demonstration workshop, seminars, conference and other events • RESAFE power point presentations at LIFE CNR event in Pisa, 25 March 2014 • RESAFE power point presentations at University of Rome event “Programma per l'ambiente e l'azione per il clima LIFE 2014-2020”, 9 July 2014 

  21. D. DISSEMINATION ACTIONS IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS • D9 - Dissemination to Institutions and policy makers • All the RESAFE beneficiaries are responsible for the organisation of specific communication activities in order to disseminate the project actions and results to Institutions and policy makers. • CEBAS and ENIA started to have some contacts with Institutions and local policy makers (Murcia and Nicosia) in order to organise specific meetings and events.

  22. D. DISSEMINATION ACTIONS IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS • D10 - International fairs and other events • Participation at the Green Week in Brussels 3-5 June 2014 • Bruker event in Rome 18-19 June 2014 • EUAGENG Congress in Zurich 6-9 July 2014 • Request for ECOMONDO • Request for EXPO2015

  23. D. DISSEMINATION ACTIONS IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS • D11 – Digital supports for international diffusion • Each beneficiary started to define the specific video of each beneficiary activity • DICMA started to have some contacts with some expert video companies in order to organise the general structure of the video • DICMA started to work on the video text

  24. E. MANAGEMENT • E1 – Project management • E2 – Monitoring • E3 – Audit report • DICMA has continuous contacts by phone and email with all project partners for monitoring project activities • Before the month end DICMA receives from each partner technical inputs for the monitor summary • At the end of each month DICMA prepares and sends a summary of the project activities carried out to monitoring team

  25. RESAFETechnical future issues in the next six months B2 - Demonstration of HQ-ORBP (High Quality Organic Matter Based Product) production at laboratory level B3 (start) - Demonstration of HQ-ORBP (High Quality Organic Matter Based Product) production at (pilot) semi-industrial scale C1 - Monitoring of organic waste and final products C2 - Monitoring and assessment of environmental impact of the HQ-ORBP (High Quality Organic Matter Based Product) production

  26. RESAFETechnical future issues in the next six months • [All] Open discussion on actions to be carried out in the next six months of the project

  27. RESAFE Dissemination future issues • D1 Project website: update • D2 notice boards (end M3): OK • D4 Diffusion material preparation: more material (foreseen 25 Posters, 10,000 leaflets/brochures/factsheets, 4,500 various branded items, 5 roll-up, 5 banners, now 3,000 brochures, 1 tissue poster, 1 roll-up, 2 presentations, 1,500 gadgets) • D5 Press and media releases: more articles (foreseen 30 articles, now 3) • D6 Networking: OK OK (foreseen 10 projects, now 9)

  28. RESAFE Dissemination future issues • D8 Demonstration workshop, seminars, conferences and other events: OK (foreseen 6 workshops, now 2 event) • D9 Dissemination to Institutions and policy makers: more contacts and event definition (foreseen successful communication, now contacts) • D10 International fairs and other events: OK OK (foreseen 4 fairs, now 3 events) • D11 Digital supports for international diffusion: start (foreseen project video)

  29. ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES • Result of monitoring visit • Project amendment: 2 new beneficiaries from Cyprus • Inception Report • Next Deliverables • Partner costs May 2014 • Next meeting

  30. Result of monitoring visit EXCELLENT!!! NO REMARKS!!! In July change of the monitor

  31. Project amendment: 2 new beneficiaries from Cyprus • ENIA would like to formally request the addition of two beneficiaries from Cyprus, Frederick University (privately owned university) and Cyprus University of Technology (state owned university), to support our efforts in the RESAFE project. No extra budget is requested for this modification. ENIA activities and budget distribuited three parts. • PROJECT AMENDMENT!! • DICMA and ENIA will manage the long procedure made of: • Coordinator beneficiary letter • ENIA and two new beneficiaries declarations and forms • Project with track changes • New modified project • Budget compared table • Addendum of Partnership Agreement

  32. INCEPTION REPORT • DICMA will be responsible of the production of the Inception report which will be made up by: • Progress report with the summary of technical, administrative and dissemination project issues • Dissemination Annex • Deliverables • Output indicator tables • Original Partnership Agreement • Possible Technical Reports • The Inception Report will produce the After-Cu GO/NO GO from the EC • The Inception Report deadline is 30 September 2014 • All the beneficiaries have to send the technical and administrative contribution to DICMA

  33. DELIVERABLES • All the following Deliverables will be annexes of the Inception Report: • Project website: Action D.1 • Notice boards: Action D.2 • Selected matrices/recipes to use in pilot plant: Action B.1

  34. INCEPTION REPORT • Deadline • DICMA will send to each partner a form for technical and dissemination contribution for the Inception Report no later than 10th of August • Each partner has to send to DICMA all the technical contribution no later than 10th of September 2014 (except some September activities) • Each partner has to send to DICMA all the dissemination contribution no later than 10st of September 2014 (except some September activities) • Each partner responsible for a Deliverable has to send to DICMA the Deliverable no later than 10th of September 2014 • DICMA will send to EC and Monitoring agency all the Inception Report documents no later than 30th of September 2014

  35. E. MANAGEMENT Cost analysis

  36. Project meetings • 1st Kick off meeting in DICMA in Italy in January 2014 • Monitoring meeting in DICMA in Italy in April 2014 • 2nd Coordination meeting in CEBASCSIC in Murcia (Spain) on July 10th 2014 • Next Project meeting • 3rd Coordination meeting in ENEA/ASTRA in Italy on January 2015

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