Title of the project: Circular Nutrients for a Sustainable Baltic Sea Region

Acronym: CiNURGi

Funding source: Interreg Baltic Sea Region

Implementation period: 11/2023 - 10/2026

Bio-based sector: organic fertilizers 

Description:

The initiative focuses on upgrading current infrastructure and technology to enhance nutrient recovery from biomass and resource streams from agricultural, municipal, and industrial sources. The project’s goal is to facilitate efficient nutrient use and promote use of recycled fertilizer products. The project brings companies into symbioses to recycle nutrient-rich biomass and provides authorities with roadmaps to further facilitate reducing nutrient losses in the future.

Key activities of the project involve:

• Developing sandards for safe and sustainable nutrient recycling
• Formulating strategies for nutrient recycling to improve regional nutrient balances
• Promoting the acceptance and use of recycled nutrients
• Exploring business opportunities in nutrient recycling
• Enhancing policy coherence in nutrient recycling in the Baltic Sea Region

In May 2024, the project has launched a call “Best practices and most innovative solutions for recycling of nutrients” and it is searching for the best innovations in the area of recycling of nutrients. The call invites pioneers in nutrient recycling to step forward and share their success stories. 

The call is open to all who are driving change in this vital field. The project is seeking cases of value chains wherein nutrients from organic wastes in regions with nutrient surplus are processed into fertilizers that can be easily transported to regions lacking self-sufficiency in crop nutrients, or which in other ways contribute to nutrient recycling. It will evaluate proposed solutions through a weighted, combined assessment of the net costs for operating the value chains against their capitalised environmental and climatic net benefits, leading to a reduced mineral fertilizer consumption. Proposed cases should primarily be already commercialized but can also be in the later stages of development. Ideally, proposed cases should be based on organic wastes from wastewater treatment, industrial processes, or farming. 

The prioritized cases will not only gain recognition with peers and colleagues but also receive international visibility through CiNURGi communication channels. They will automatically become candidates for the "Best Nutrient Recycling Award," a competition intended to raise awareness among stakeholders about successful and cost-effective nutrient recycling solutions. The top-performing cases will be showcased at a European-level event planned for the end of the project. 

The call is open until 31st August 2024: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSedPC8usa_NFqE6bsY-GoPkoc6HtDK-SQ_HGm8Lkn_Niriw1Q/viewform 

Link to the project website: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/cinurgi/

 

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