Partners
Dr. Ina Körner of the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) is projectleader of CLOSECYCLE.
TUHH provides basic and applied research competences in bioresource management: bioresource inventories, material flow management, source-separated collection. TUHH brings in also knowledge about nitrogen dynamics, biodegration of bioplastics, microplastics and the modelling of bioconversion processes.
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Contact: Ina Körner, i.koerner@tuhh.de
PSKW, The Research Centre for vegetables, is a vegetable growers organisation that aims to create a link between the fundamental scientific research carried out at the universities and the growers. Main topics of research are strongly related to sustainability and the reduction of environmental impact (research in fertilisation on N&P, soil improvement, crop protection).
Location: Katelijne Waver, Belgium
Contact: Joris de Nies, joris.de.nies@proefstation.be
Vlaco vzw (1992) is a membership organisation (Flemish government and the private waste treatment companies). We are loking after the interests of the sector and support the sustainable material cycle of biowaste. We emphasize the quality of recycling biowaste. Vlaco is a member of ECN and supports an ECN Quality Assurance Scheme. Vlaco has wide knowledge to the availability, the use, and benefits of compost.
Vlaco is in direct contact (several visits a year) with more than 80 members who compost or digest.
Location: Mechelen, Belgium
Contact: Elke Vandaele, Elke.Vandaele@vlaco.be
Natuurpunt Beheer vsz is a NGO with 105.000 private families as members. It is the largest private nature conservation and management organisation in Flanders. Its core business is the management of 26.000 hectares of nature. Within Close Cycle developing the necessary local networks and logistics is an important issue for the organisation. Together with research stations NP works on overcoming current policy bottlenecks that prevent effective valorisation.
Location: Belgium
Contact: Naomi Breine, naomi.breine@natuurpunt.be
EV-ILVO
EV-ILVO/ILVO (ILVO) owns a BELAC accredited lab (EN ISO/IEC 17025) for the determination of chemical properties of mineral soils, compost and substrates. We run well-documented field trials with compost application. The experimental farm is equipped with a full-scale open air compost site and dedicated equipment for on-farm composting. We have expertise with disease suppressive substrates as an IPM (Integrated Pest Management) strategy. ILVO organizes several dissemination events and publishes videos about their research. Within CloseCycle the plant unit of ILVO is involved with specific experience in composting, bio-innovative fertilizers, crop and animal husbandry, soil management and soil health.
ILVO will develop process cascades for transfer of non-agricultural residues such as wooded edges, road and water sides and residues from nature and forestry to selected processes and products towards application in agriculture.
Location: Merelbeke, Belgium
Contact: Fien Amery, fien.amery@ilvo.vlaanderen.be
Delphy, the Netherlands, is an organisation with more than 200 employees in different countries with a specialization for advice in plant material.
Delphy will perform tests with diverse local residue based products in horticultural crops, including potted plants. It will develop a local network involving nursery growers from Greenport Boskoop, the municipality of Alphen aan de Rijn and companies in various sectors.Delphy will also facilitate knowledge transfer to growers.
Delphy and Hessel Marketing & Communication are working together in the overall communication of the project. They coordinate and develop communication tools and concepts which the different beneficiaries can use.
Location: the Netherlands
Contact: Rene van Tol, r.vantol@delphy.nl
Communication: Esther Hessel, e.hessel@hesselmarketing.nl
Smeets Agroconsultancy is a consultancy buro, specialized in soil improvement on nurseries. In CLOSECYCLE the company will evaluate the use of residual based streams in soil improvement. The company will be one of the companies establishing a network around the use of grass in nurseries of fruit.
Location: the Netherlands
Contact: Hans Smeets, info@smeetsagroconsultancy.nl
Hortiadvice is a leading adviser for growers of vegetables, fruit and berries, for nurseries and green house production. In Denmark: 80 hardy stock nurseries, 200 vegetable growers. There is experience with the cultivation of nursery plants, vegetables and the production of compost.
HortiAdvice will play an important role in raising awareness regarding utilization of compost in plant-soil systems, incuding functions as fertilizer, soil enhancer, compost tea. It will assess composting processes specifically regarding environmental implications and undertake chracterization and categorisation of various compost types. HortiAdvice wil share the knowledge by meetings and newsletters.
Location: Denmark
Contact: Julie Schou Christiansen, juch@hortiadvice.dk
Aarhus University
AU-FOOD is part of Aarhus University and conducts research, development and policy advice on topics from plant primary production to food quality. AU-FOOD is leading in Denmark in horticultural research. CloseCycle's thema of waste recycling for soil improvement and plant production is link to the research strategy of Aarhus University focussed on plants, food and environment. Arhus University will conduct trials for testing effects of new residue based products gained from anaerobic digestion products. Focus will be on determinating the nitrogen use efficiency, carbon sequestration and vegetable product quality.
Location: Denmark
Contact: Hanne Lakkenborg Kristensen, hanne.kristensen@food.au.dk
INRAE is the National Research Institute for Agriculture in France. Within CLOSECYCLE the institute is active with two research units. They have scientific competenses in the circular valorisation of organic waste and residues and have the equipment and skills in bioresource characterisation, process development and optimization:
- Opaale: for composting and anearobic digestion and
- BIA: polyphenolic compounds from agro-industry
Within Opaale there is also extensive experience with value-chain modelling en decision support systems.
Location: Rennes, France
Contact: Pierre Thiriet, pierre.thiriet@inrae.fr
Contact: Anne Tremier, anne.tremier@inrae.fr
Naturbruksförvaltningen
The Naturbruksförvaltningen (NBF)is a regional authority on nature resource management with expertise in the bioeconomy sector. Projects focus on small scale biogas production, biorefineries (extraction of proteins from grass for animal feed and fibers). It also runs upper secondary and higher vocational schools.
Within CloseCycle NBF will test the digital tools and contribute input on biogas and green biorefineries.
Location: Sweden
Contact: Marina-Adelina Stuparu, marina-adelina.stuparu@vgregion.se
Hamburg University contributes in CLOSECYCLE by its expertise in the utilisation of lignocellulosic bioresources and residues for the production of pulp, paper, packaging and fiber-based products. Extensive experience exists in analyzig synthetic additives and polymers. This exoerise is used to analyse impurities and contaminants in CLOSECYCLE.
Location: Germany
Contact: Bodo Saake, bodo.saake@uni-hamburg.de
In CLOSECYCLE Viaverda (previously PCS, but now Viaverda because of the merge between PCS, PCA and PCG) is an ornamental horticulture test centre. It is a practice oriented research institute in Flanders. Viaverda has the experience and facilities to carry out applied scientific and practical research on various aspects of sustainable horticulture.
Location: Belgium (Flanders)
Contact: Hanne Denaeghel, Hanne.Denaeghel@viaverda.be
The Institut Francais des productions Cidricoles (IFPC) is a French institute for applied research in the cider sector. The institute is fully dedicated to the whole cider sector chain; from apple tree growing to cider production and processing of other products. The IFPC will supply different cider co-products for characterisation by INRAE. One of the showcases within CLOSECYCLE is about using and testing these by-products. For example using the pectine in industry.
Location: France
Contact: Remi Baudin, remi.bauduin@ifpc.eu