Events Close Cycle

On April 28th, from 14-16h, Bart Vandecasteele of ILVO will tell about the potential of using biochar in substrates for horticulture. Future use of carbon-rich materials for a variety of applications including C storage in soil is expected to increase, potentially resulting in a shortage of the...

The use of biomass as an energy source and as part of a necessary energy transition is being discussed in various ways, some of which are controversial. The team of the CC4E research project AblaPyro, funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK), invites you to a joi...

We like to invite you for the POPUp Talk about enhancement of soil aggregates by using compost. In the project of the Hamburg Open Online University, 'Back to the Roots', different measures from regenerative agriculture are explained to farmers to improve the fertility of their soils. Also the backg...

CLOSECYCLE invites you to the online PopUp talk on January 22nd 2025 about the “Production and use of wood fiber materials as peat substitutes”. Fokko Schütt and Jörn Appelt from the Thünen Institute of wood research will report about the project “HoFaTo” which aims to increase the possible amount o...

CLOSECYCLE invites you for the POPUP TALK about microplastics! In the project CLOSECYCLE potential organic waststreams are characterized and analyzed. One of the analyses is on microplastics. CLOSECYCLE is in contact with the project MiCoS, were from thoroughly describing the problem of the micropla...

Steffen Walk, representing the European Compost Network, will update us about the LIFE BIOBEST project and the different very useful guidelines. The LIFE project BIOBEST aims to identify and validate the current Best Practises and management instruments along the bio-waste management chain (from gen...

On May 28th, CLOSECYCLE will be presented during an interesting day about biomass solutions. This day is organised by our Belgium partner Natuurpunt. In the morning different speakers will dive into the subject. In the afternoon: boots on! For the excursion to the Torfbroek nature area and grassland...

Prof. Dr. –Ing. Ralf Otterpohl of the Institut für Abwasserwirtschaft und Gewässerschutz and TUHH Technische Universität Hamburg shares his vision and thoughts about regenerative agriculture. The Interreg North Sea project CloseCycle enables a more efficient use of residual rural and urban bior...