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DeliSoil at 3rd Summit of Organic and organo-mineral Fertilisers Industries in Europe

Sofie III – The 3rd Summit of the Organic and organo-mineral Fertilisers Industries in Europe was held in Brussels 16th-17th January 2024. Ari-Matti Seppänen, Science Specialist from Natural Resources Institute Finland Luke was there presenting two posters from DeliSoil-project. First poster presented the big picture of the main activities in DeliSoil and the second presented the regional co-creation in Finland’s living lab and development work in Biopaja lighthouse in more detail.
Sofie III was held in historic venue of Hotel de Plaza Brussels.
Sofie offers the only industry meeting place for organic-carbon-based fertilizer producers, distributors, advisory and technology suppliers. As it was held in Brussels, many EU commission specialists were able to brief the summit on current funding programs and legislative reforms. Horizon 2020 research projects Lex4Bio and Fertimanure presented newest results on developing and testing bio-based fertilizers (BBFs). Contributions to discussion were also heard from industry’s main operators, market analyzers, local farmer’s trade union and consultants. Main takeaways of the summit were; BBFs have great potential in substituting mineral fertilizers; preliminary results on positive GHG mitigation potential and new Fertilizer regulation policy aims to unify the fertilizer products between EU nations, it still has uncertainties regarding some organic materials and product function categories. The discussion and co-creation between industry, research and farmers is also DeliSoil-projects core functions.

Delisoil collegues meeting at poster session. (Ari-Matti Seppänen, Luke; Ana Robles Aguilar & Laia Llenas Argelaguet, BETA Technological Center.)