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PoLaRecCE

Project overview

New chance for Polluted Lands: Recovery of agricultural soil function by non-food farming and adapted soil management at degraded sites

In many of our regions, agricultural soils are contaminated by various pollutants. Moreover, these lands are still used for growing food or animal feed, leading to an uncontrolled uptake of pollutants into the human food chain. The PoLaRecCE project works on a sustainable land management programme and tests cutting-edge tools and techniques to remediate degraded soils for non-food agricultural production. The partners disseminate knowledge gained from pilot areas and propose economically viable solutions to support the agricultural production of non-foods or environmentally-friendly conversion of contaminated soils.

1,77m €

Project Budget

80%

of the Budget is funded by ERDF

Layer 1

6

Countries

9

Regions

10

Partners

4

Pilots

Duration

Start date

End date

Project progress

17%

About the project

PoLaRecCE provides an innovative and coherent management program to restore agricultural activity on contaminated and marginal land. It also focuses on disseminating European organizations' knowledge and practical experience from different climatic regions to implement the most up-to-date strategies for rapid remediation and restoration of degraded soils for non-food agricultural production.

Project partnership

Project partners

Polska (PL)

Lead partner

Institute of Environmental Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Department of Environmental Magnetism and Reclamation
Address
Marii Skłodowskiej - Curie 34
41-819 Zabrze
Country
Poland (PL)
Web
www.ipis.pan.pl

Project partner

Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agro-Alimentari
Address
Viale G. Fanin 44
40127 Bologna
Country
Italy (IT)
Web
https://distal.unibo.it/
Total partner budget
201,550 €
Institute of Chemical and Energy Engineering
Address
Muthgasse 107
1190 Wien
Country
Austria (AT)
Web
www.boku.ac.at/map/ivet
Total partner budget
179,000 €
WOODTECH-CAMPUS
Address
Kossuth Lajos 2
9730 Kőszeg
Country
Hungary (HU)
Web
https://woodtechcsoport.hu/hu/
Total partner budget
178,800 €
Address
Via Enrico Melen 77
16152 Genoa
Country
Italy (IT)
Web
www.fos.it
Total partner budget
236,880 €
Address
Piazza Matteotti 9
16121 GENOA
Country
Italy (IT)
Web
www.anciliguria.it
Total partner budget
176,550 €
Address
Ptujska cesta 6
2270 Ormož
Country
Slovenia (SI)
Web
www.ormoz.si
Total partner budget
144,550 €
Address
Mirhóháti 11
5500 Gyomaendrőd
Country
Hungary (HU)
Web
gyoma.hu
Total partner budget
152,650 €
Address
Trg senjskih uskoka 1-2
10020 Zagreb
Country
Croatia (HR)
Web
https://oikon.hr/
Total partner budget
52,920 €
Address
Rynek 1
32-050 Skawina
Country
Poland (PL)
Web
www.gminaskawina.pl
Total partner budget
60,900 €

Roadmap

1

Recovery of agricultural soil function by non-food farming and adapted soil management at degraded site

In Central Europe (CE), the sustainable management of agricultural soils contaminated or degraded by various human activities is an administrative and social challenge. The PoLaRecCE project aims to develop innovative tools and approaches to support land management practices to better adapt degraded soils to the environmental, social and economic needs of the local community.

2

Specific Problem

In many regions of Europe, agricultural or marginal soils are contaminated by various types of pollutants. Moreover, these soils are still used for growing food and feed, leading to uncontrolled uptake of pollutants into the food chain.

3

Our idea

Our idea is to disseminate the knowledge and practical experience of European organizations from different climatic regions to implement the most up-to-date strategies for rapid remediation and restoration of degraded soils for non-food agricultural production.

4

Our solution

The project provides an innovative and coherent management program to restore agricultural activity on contaminated and marginal land.

5

How it works

Selected pilot areas in different regions of CE will be established to test the most innovative methods for rapidly detecting different pollutants. If the soil needs remediation, the most appropriate and cost-effective techniques will be promoted to strengthen sustainable environmental management practices and enable non-food agriculture.

6

Results

We plan to achieve the following results: - Organisations cooperating across borders after project completion - Joint strategies and action plans taken up by PPs - Solutions taken up or up-scaled by organizations involved in the project Due to their characteristics project results scalability may occur in other EU countries with the support of a communication strategy.

Pilot actions

Outputs

Jointly-developed strategy and action plan to engage stakeholders and end-users in using and expanding the Central European database

Strategy for the involvement of stakeholders and end-users from 8 European regions (Nuts 1 level), located in 6 countries in using and expanding the regional open electronic database of wastelands available for non-food agriculture including expectations of landowners, local farmers and requirements of the local market
Type of output: Strategies and action plans
In development

Action plan developed for land degraded by urban and industrial deposition

Strategy and action plan for the stepwise procedure of environmental site assessment and soil recovery of lands degraded by urban and industrial deposition
Type of output: Strategies and action plans
In development

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Project Contacts

Project Manager

Tadeusz Magiera
Phone: +48609514160

Finance Manager

Jadwiga Wróbel
Phone: +48728413223

Communication Manager

Paulo Rondo de Melo
Phone: +390108906000