NOVAFERT

• Grant agreement ID: 101060835

• Total project budget: 1.998.829,00

• Start Date: 01/09/2022

  End Date: 31/08/2025

• Project website: www.novafert.eu/

NOVAFERT, focused on developing novel procedures and sustainable guidelines to enhance the use of alternative fertilisers, is one of the new Horizon Europe projects in which we are currently working. In line with the Zero Pollution action plan, the “Farm to Fork” strategy and the new Fertilising Products Regulation, NOVAFERT demonstrates the technical, economic, and environmental feasibility and safe use of a wide portfolio of at least 25 alternative fertilising products, containing recovered nutrients from 6 different waste streams, with the goal of facilitating the replacement of synthetic and mineral fertilisers. NOVAFERT gathers 9 multidisciplinary actors to achieve this.

The environmental aspect is covered by developing guidelines and a consensual method for environmental assessment of alternative fertilising products. The economic aspect is covered by co-creating novel, circular and green business models. As such, NOVAFERT aims to reduce environmental impacts and external nutrient dependence in agriculture in 6 representative countries from Eastern, Western, Northern, Southern and Central Europe.

NOVAFERT maps existing alternative fertilising products across Europe and develop an Atlas of the nutrient-oriented living labs, and also supports the development of sustainable local value chains. By regionally contextualizing and interlinking all main recovering technologies and products, and technically connecting all value chains and key relevant stakeholders in 7 regional working groups and 7-10 lighthouse demo’s, NOVAFERT fosters the sustainable use and management of alternative fertilizing products in Europe.

Moreover, NOVAFERT develops a portfolio of support policies and legislative instruments suitable for local deployment in the EU regions through 7 specific action plans and 4 policy briefs. Thereby NOVAFERT brings together the necessary information for efficient and safe utilizing of alternative fertilising products to help decision-making on valorisation employed in nutrient recovery.