Green Deal Partners Search – AMBER – Agricultural Spraying

Topic: LC-GD-6-1-2020: Subtopic C. Testing and demonstrating systemic innovations in support of the Farm-to-Fork Strategy. Subtopic C. [2021] Reducing the dependence on hazardous pesticides; reducing the losses of nutrients from fertilisers, towards zero pollution of water, soil and air and ultimately fertiliser use.

AMBER: Advanced Materials and Bioengineering Research Centre (Dublín)

(COORDINADOR con SME Agricultural Magnetics Ltd –MagGrow)EU

Deirdre.Caden@tcd.ie,Claire.McKenna@tcd.ie

o  Main objective: Disruptive efficiency gains in agricultural spraying, with a targeted 50% reduction in hazardous pesticides before 2030, through nanobubble media and dynamic delivery modalities.

o  Searched partners: Spray modality specialists (Blast & Drone-based spraying), Progressive precision arable farming partner(s), Plant pathogen specialist and microbiological facility, consumer groups, retailers, behavioural/social scientists, environmental networks

  Athlone Institute of Technology (Ireland). Polymer Engineering (Plastic processing, recycling, Eco-Plastics) (NO COORDINADOR) Margaret Fournet:mfournet@ait.ie; Yuanyuan Chen: yuanyuanchen@ait.ie

o   Main objective: Zero Plastic Waste. Biodepolymerise, Biorepolymerise, Eco-plastics. Construir sobre EU-China flagship H2020 on: A Circular Economy for Plastics(www.bioICEP.eu/)