FERTIMANURE 1st Intermediate Event @MANURESOURCE in The Netherlands – 12 of May 2022.

During FERTIMANURE 1st Intermediate Event, several activities were organised and performed by the different project partners. These activities included:

Two Round tables  

• Table 1 covered: “What constitutes a bio-based fertiliser? What is the definition and purpose of a tailor-made fertiliser? Arriving to a consensus on definitions and terminologies which will help define manure or other organic-based fertilising products in the market”      
• Table 2 covered: “Product Category Rules for bio-based fertilisers. In search of a consensual approach”

Two Parallel Sessions:  ​

• Parallel Session 1: “European nutrient balance landscape and market opportunities for closing nutrient loops”​, which included the following presentations:
  • Current situation of manure production and management in the European Union. Nutrient imbalance analysis in six European countries. 
  • Market landscape analysis of bio-based fertilising products.     
  • FERTIMANURE fertilising products – Agronomic performance and competitiveness in the market.
• Parallel Session 2: “Innovative manure processing plants for the production of marketable bio-based fertilisers”​, which included the following presentations:       
  • Innovative manure processing plants for the production of marketable bio-based fertilisers. 
  • On-farm pilot for the production of bio-based fertilisers as an innovative technological solution for pig slurry valorisation.     
  • Nutrient recovery from cattle manure through a novel thermo-chemical conversion process. 
  • Producing bio-based fertilisers from co-digested dairy cattle slurry at the on-farm pilot (Farm of Arjan Prinsen) in the Netherlands.

The 2 other Intermediate Events will be organised in Argentina and Poland; and the Final Conference will take place in Catalonia.