Creating more productive soils with less fertiliser
- Project start: 01.09.2015
- Project end: 28.02.2022
- Principal Investigator: Lionel Dupuy
- Funder: European Union
- Programme: Horizon 2020
- Reference: Grant Agreement 647857
- Total budget: EUR 1.978.475
- Partners: University of Dundee, The James Hutton Institute, Scotland’s Rural College and The University of Sheffield (UK), the Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier (France), as well as the Basque Foundation for Science, Ikerbasque and the technology centre NEIKER.
General objective:
The excessive use of chemical fertilisers in agriculture is causing soil and environmental pollution.
SENSOILS proposes to find alternatives to increase crop yields and at the same time reduce the use of these chemical products.
To do this, it will study how the soil layer known as the rhizosphere is formed and how it helps nutrients to flow to the roots.
This research has been funded by the European Union through the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement 647857-SENSOILS) and has counted with the collaboration of the University of Dundee, The James Hutton Institute, Scotland’s Rural College and The University of Sheffield (United Kingdom), the Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier (France), as well as the Basque Foundation for Science, Ikerbasque and the NEIKER technology centre.