Complex RDI Project title: „Înființarea și operaționalizarea unui Centru de Competență pentru Sănătatea Solului și Siguranța Alimentară”, "Establishment and operationalization of a Competence Center for Soil Health and Food Safety"
Competence Center title: Soil Health and Food Safety Competence Center
Complex RDI Project acronym: CeSoH
Complex RDI Project description
Description: The project aims to establish and operationalize the Competence Center for Soil Health and Food Safety at national level, by creating public-private partnerships to obtain interdisciplinarity and skills necessary to address the societal challenges associated with the corresponding EU mission in Horizon Europe. The target proposed by the EU mission A Soil Deal for Europe that is “by 2030 at least 75% of all soils in the EU are healthy for food, people, nature and climate” will be one of the objectives of the Competence Center at national level. The Centre proposed mission is to enhance sustainable soil management and restoration at a national level as a part of a larger, more environmentally friendly shift in both rural and urban areas by developing practical solutions, creating an important basis for future challenges through raising societal awareness. The target of the Competence Centre focus on the research which aims to restore soil health from non-productive land through: conservation and organic practices and biomass cultures, determining the organic/inorganic pollutant concentration, investigating the components transfer from soil-plant-animal-food product, in order to understand the necessity for soil health restoration activities as an important factor for life-sustaining, to research changes and to predict future challenges, as well as to develop innovative solutions and put them in practice.
Consortium
The consortium is a mix of the academic sector (UPB, UPET, INMA, UDJG, ICSI) and SMEs (CEPROCIM, CROMATEC, ARTECOM, ENVIROECOSMART, ICA) as well as a big company (IRUM) all with a focus on RDI activities, technology and creating added value in the Soil strategy to contribute to the overall ecosystem with the sole purpose of a healthy life