Special Session

N and circular economy. The role of affected stakeholders

11/02/202217:00

This session welcomes communications on:

  1. Where is the circular N? New arriving wastes & by-products and its characteristics. Meeting waste owners and Sci-tech experts.
  2. N recovery: Technologies & scales (farms, agrofood, engineering). Case studies, specially oriented to real-scale solutions.
  3. N biofertilizers: new approaches (composting, pelleting, enrichment, added-value microbiome or active compounds) and validation processes.
  4. Social, economic and environmental assessment of N based circular economy: how circular solutions address the overall sustainability of agrofood sector, including case studies, income balance, CC mitigation? The view of affected stakeholders.
  5. Transference of N circular economy: prospects and challenges to bring together research, multiscale administration & policies, and smooth transfer to sector (favouring strategic/prospective view better than reactive situations).

Responsibles

Raul Moral

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Professor Raul Moral is an environmental agrochemist based at Miguel Hernandez de Elche (UMH), in Orihuela (Spain) into the CIAGRO Research Center. Expert on sustainable agriculture based on waste valorisation and nutrients recovery, he leads agrocomposting movement in Valencian Region including new circular economy models to enhance organic agriculture and more environmentally friendly fertilization scenarios adapted to the Mediterranean area.

He is a former coordinator of Spanish Composting Network (2004-2014), active researcher in FAO-RAMIRAN network and REMEDIA & NUEVA networks centered in C sequestration and the mitigation of GHG emissions in the primary sector and. Nowadays enrolled in the use of earthworms and insects in plastic remediation and new biofertilizers development at H2020 BBI RECOVER & LIFE+ REGROW projects.

Raul Moral

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Professor Raul Moral is an environmental agrochemist based at Miguel Hernandez de Elche (UMH), in Orihuela (Spain) into the CIAGRO Research Center. Expert on sustainable agriculture based on waste valorisation and nutrients recovery, he leads agrocomposting movement in Valencian Region including new circular economy models to enhance organic agriculture and more environmentally friendly fertilization scenarios adapted to the Mediterranean area.

He is a former coordinator of Spanish Composting Network (2004-2014), active researcher in FAO-RAMIRAN network and REMEDIA & NUEVA networks centered in C sequestration and the mitigation of GHG emissions in the primary sector and. Nowadays enrolled in the use of earthworms and insects in plastic remediation and new biofertilizers development at H2020 BBI RECOVER & LIFE+ REGROW projects.

Maria Cruz García González

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Dr. María Cruz García-González (female). Head of the Department of Environmental Technologies Applied to the Agro-Industrial Sector at ITACyL. She received the B. Sc. Degree in Biology from the University of León (Spain), and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Valladolid (Spain). She has a post-doc in the UK and USA, and Master in Project Management (IPMA, Level C). She has the FLC (Federal Laboratory Consortium, from USA) National 2021 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award, and the FLC Southeast 2020. She is specialized in organic waste treatment and nutrient recycling, with an important research activity of great scientific importance, resulting in more than 50 international scientific articles and book chapters (H-index 24, cites 2016). She has an active participation in different specialized courses, workshops and more than 70 international and national conferences. She has experience at different international and national research projects (coordinator of 6 competitive national projects, participation in 6 European projects). She also has teaching and supervising experience, with participation in Ph.D. committees and PhD supervision.

Maria Cruz García González

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Dr. María Cruz García-González (female). Head of the Department of Environmental Technologies Applied to the Agro-Industrial Sector at ITACyL. She received the B. Sc. Degree in Biology from the University of León (Spain), and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Valladolid (Spain). She has a post-doc in the UK and USA, and Master in Project Management (IPMA, Level C). She has the FLC (Federal Laboratory Consortium, from USA) National 2021 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award, and the FLC Southeast 2020. She is specialized in organic waste treatment and nutrient recycling, with an important research activity of great scientific importance, resulting in more than 50 international scientific articles and book chapters (H-index 24, cites 2016). She has an active participation in different specialized courses, workshops and more than 70 international and national conferences. She has experience at different international and national research projects (coordinator of 6 competitive national projects, participation in 6 European projects). She also has teaching and supervising experience, with participation in Ph.D. committees and PhD supervision.

More special sessions

In addition to oral communications and posters presentations

Policy strategies for reducing N waste

Remote sensing for N optimization and precision agriculture

Costs and benefits of halving N waste by 2030

We are doing our best to host the N Workshop in Madrid in fall 2022 and we really wish this will be a scientific event where again we could meet in person and discuss about N science.
Confirmed dates 24th - 28th October 2022, Madrid

The Organizing Committee aims to minimize the environmental impacts of the workshop and both N and C footprints will be calculated afterwards.

We encourage an "in-person" attendance but facilitating a remote connection to key activities during the workshop. Seeing how volatile are these times, all scenarios should be considered now, even a new delay if the sanitary situation does not allow a minimum in-person attendance.

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