LIFE12 ENV/IT/356 «RESAFE»

«Innovative fertilizer from urban waste, bio-char and farm residues

as substitute of chemical fertilizers»

6 MONTH MEETING

July, 10, 2014Murcia (Spain)

CEBASCSIC Premises

LIFE12 ENV/IT/356 «RESAFE»Agenda

11:00 [CEBASCSIC] Welcome and opening of the meeting

11:05 [All] Actions carried out by each partner and scheduled activities till the end of June 2014.

12:00 [All] Open discussion on actions carried out

12:15 [All] RESAFE Technical future issues: [DICMA] Technical activities scheduled in the

next six months of the project [All] Open discussion on actions to be carried

out in the next six months of the project

LIFE12 ENV/IT/356 «RESAFE»Agenda

13:00 [DICMA] Management and dissemination issues13:05 [All] General questions13:10 End of progress meeting13:15 Tour of CEBASCSIC premises 14:00 Lunch

LIFE12 ENV/IT/356 «RESAFE»Main Information

Title: LIFE12 ENV/IT/356 - «RESAFE» «Innovative fertilizer from urban waste, bio-char and farm residues as substitute of chemical fertilizers»

Duration: 24 Months

Number of benificiaries: 5

Start date: 01 January 2014

End date: 31 December 2016

BENEFICIARIES

• DICMA (Italy): Coordinator of the project. Expert in agricultural waste and environmental test;

• ASTRA (Italy): Italian waste and agricultural expert, in field testing;

• ENEA (Italy): Waste expert;

• ENIA (Cyprus): Cypriot agricultural expert and in field testing;

• CEBAS (Spain): Spanish agricultural analysis and in field testing

PROJECT OBJECTIVESMain Objective

The MAIN OBJECTIVE of the project is:

•to demonstrate the production and use of fertilizers characterized by reduced salinity in order to substitute chemicals and mineral fertilizers through a technological route based on urban organic waste, bio-char and farm organic residues processing.

•For farmer and urban waste managers, to reduce costs and obtain environmental and economical incomes that is:

− an important material recovery (e.g. reduced quantities of waste sent to landfill disposal and related costs saving) and

− a further economic benefit due to the obtained fertilizers.

B. TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION ACTION

B1 - Demonstration of proper recipes through the characterisation of organic waste and final products

B2 - Demonstration of HQ-ORBP (High Quality Organic Matter Based Product) production at laboratory level

B3 - Demonstration of HQ-ORBP (High Quality Organic Matter Based Product) production at (pilot) semi-industrial scale

B4 - Demonstration of Agriculture Application in Italy

B5 - Demonstration of Agriculture Application in Spain

B6 - Demonstration of Agriculture Application in Cyprus

C. TECHNICAL MONITORING ACTION

C1 - Monitoring of organic waste and final products

C2 - Monitoring and assessment of environmental impact of the HQ-ORBP (High Quality Organic Matter Based Product) production

C3 - Monitoring of environmental benefit of Agriculture Application in Italy

C4 - Monitoring of environmental benefit of Agriculture Application in Spain

C5 - Monitoring of environmental benefit of Agriculture Application in Cyprus

C6 - Monitoring of technical-socio-economic assessment of the HQ-ORBP production

PROJECT TIMING

C. Technical Actions carried out by each partner in the last six months

B1 - Demonstration of proper recipes through the characterisation of organic waste and final products

B2 (start) - Demonstration of HQ-ORBP (High Quality Organic Matter Based Product) production at laboratory level

C1 - Monitoring of organic waste and final products

C2 (start) - Monitoring and assessment of environmental impact of the HQ-ORBP (High Quality Organic Matter Based Product) production

Technical Actions carried out by each partner in the last six months

Presentations of:

DICMA CEBAS ENEA ASTRA ENIA

Technical Actions carried out by each partner in the last six months

[All] Open discussion on actions carried out

D. DISSEMINATION

D1 – Project website

D2 – Notice board

D3 – Layman’s report

D4 – Diffusion material preparation

D5 – Articles and press releases

D6 – Networking

D7 – RESAFE technology manual

D8 – Demonstration workshop, seminars, conference and other events

D9 - Dissemination to Institutions and policy makers

D10 – International fairs and other events

D11 – Digital supports for international diffusion

D. DISSEMINATION ACTIONS IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS

D1 – Project website

D2 – Notice board

D4 – Diffusion material preparation

D5 – Articles and press releases

D6 – Networking

D8 – Demonstration workshop, seminars, conference and other events

D9 - Dissemination to Institutions and policy makers

D10 – International fairs and other events

D11 – Digital supports for international diffusion

D. DISSEMINATION ACTIONS IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS

D1 – Project website

• RESAFE website in English and in Italian: www.liferesafe.com

• CEBASCSIC is preparing the Spanish version

• ENIA is preparing the Cypriot version

• Each beneficiary is implementing the link between the RESAFE website to the beneficiary website

D. DISSEMINATION ACTIONS IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS

D2 – Notice board

• DICMA produced 15 RESAFE Notice boards and gave them to all the beneficiaries during the kick-off meeting

• All the beneficiaries put the RESAFE Notice board in a public space

• All the beneficiaries are going to send the photos of the RESAFE Notice board in a public space in each beneficiary premises and in the demonstration plants

D. DISSEMINATION ACTIONS IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS

D4 – Diffusion material preparation

• 3,000 RESAFE brochures (1,500 in English and 1,500 in Italian)

• RESAFE power point presentation in English and in Italian• 1 roll-up • 1 tissue poster• 500 RESAFE cups• 500 RESAFE pens • 500 RESAFE notebooks• definition of Italian project gadgets

D. DISSEMINATION ACTIONS IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS

D5 – Articles and press releases

• 2 articles related to the participation at the CNR LIFE event at Pisa on 25th March 2014

• University electronic advise of the kick-off meeting

D. DISSEMINATION ACTIONS IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS

D6 – Networking

• Contacts with SOREME, BIOREM, After-Cu, GREEN SITE, SOILPRO, SEKRET, EVERGREEN, GREENWOOLF (LIFE 11-12-13 projects)

• Participation at the CNR LIFE event at Pisa on 25th March 2014

• Networking meeting with LIFE CarbONfarm on 24 February in Naple 2014

D. DISSEMINATION ACTIONS IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS

D8 - Demonstration workshop, seminars, conference and other events

• RESAFE power point presentations at LIFE CNR event in Pisa, 25 March 2014

• RESAFE power point presentations at University of Rome event “Programma per l'ambiente e l'azione per il clima LIFE 2014-2020”, 9 July 2014 

D. DISSEMINATION ACTIONS IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS

D9 - Dissemination to Institutions and policy makers

All the RESAFE beneficiaries are responsible for the organisation of specific communication activities in order to disseminate the project actions and results to Institutions and policy makers.

CEBAS and ENIA started to have some contacts with Institutions and local policy makers (Murcia and Nicosia) in order to organise specific meetings and events.

D. DISSEMINATION ACTIONS IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS

D10 - International fairs and other events

• Participation at the Green Week in Brussels 3-5 June 2014

• Bruker event in Rome 18-19 June 2014

• EUAGENG Congress in Zurich 6-9 July 2014

• Request for ECOMONDO

• Request for EXPO2015

D. DISSEMINATION ACTIONS IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS

D11 – Digital supports for international diffusion

• Each beneficiary started to define the specific video of each beneficiary activity

• DICMA started to have some contacts with some expert video companies in order to organise the general structure of the video

• DICMA started to work on the video text

E. MANAGEMENT

E1 – Project management

E2 – Monitoring

E3 – Audit report

DICMA has continuous contacts by phone and email with all project partners for monitoring project activities

Before the month end DICMA receives from each partner technical inputs for the monitor summary

At the end of each month DICMA prepares and sends a summary of the project activities carried out to monitoring team

RESAFE Technical future issues in the next six months

B2 - Demonstration of HQ-ORBP (High Quality Organic Matter Based Product) production at laboratory level

B3 (start) - Demonstration of HQ-ORBP (High Quality Organic Matter Based Product) production at (pilot) semi-industrial scale

C1 - Monitoring of organic waste and final products

C2 - Monitoring and assessment of environmental impact of the HQ-ORBP (High Quality Organic Matter Based Product) production

RESAFE Technical future issues in the next six months

[All] Open discussion on actions to be carried out in the next six months of the project

RESAFE Dissemination future issues

D1 Project website: update D2 notice boards (end M3): OK D4 Diffusion material preparation: more material (foreseen 25 Posters, 10,000 leaflets/brochures/factsheets, 4,500 various branded items, 5 roll-up, 5 banners, now 3,000 brochures, 1 tissue poster, 1 roll-up, 2 presentations, 1,500 gadgets) D5 Press and media releases: more articles (foreseen 30 articles, now 3) D6 Networking: OK OK (foreseen 10 projects, now 9)

RESAFE Dissemination future issues

D8 Demonstration workshop, seminars, conferences and other events: OK (foreseen 6 workshops, now 2 event) D9 Dissemination to Institutions and policy makers: more contacts and event definition (foreseen successful communication, now contacts) D10 International fairs and other events: OK OK (foreseen 4 fairs, now 3 events) D11 Digital supports for international diffusion: start (foreseen project video)

ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES

Result of monitoring visitProject amendment: 2 new beneficiaries from CyprusInception ReportNext DeliverablesPartner costs May 2014Next meeting

Result of monitoring visit

EXCELLENT!!!

NO REMARKS!!!

In July change of the monitor

Project amendment: 2 new beneficiaries from Cyprus

ENIA would like to formally request the addition of two beneficiaries from Cyprus, Frederick University (privately owned university) and Cyprus University of Technology (state owned university), to support our efforts in the RESAFE project. No extra budget is requested for this modification. ENIA activities and budget distribuited three parts.

PROJECT AMENDMENT!!DICMA and ENIA will manage the long procedure made of:

Coordinator beneficiary letterENIA and two new beneficiaries declarations and forms

Project with track changesNew modified project

Budget compared tableAddendum of Partnership Agreement

INCEPTION REPORT

DICMA will be responsible of the production of the Inception report which will be made up by:

Progress report with the summary of technical, administrative and dissemination project issues

Dissemination Annex Deliverables Output indicator tables Original Partnership Agreement Possible Technical Reports

The Inception Report will produce the After-Cu GO/NO GO from the EC

The Inception Report deadline is 30 September 2014All the beneficiaries have to send the technical and

administrative contribution to DICMA

DELIVERABLES

All the following Deliverables will be annexes of the Inception Report: Project website: Action D.1 Notice boards: Action D.2 Selected matrices/recipes to use in pilot plant: Action B.1

INCEPTION REPORT

Deadline

DICMA will send to each partner a form for technical and dissemination contribution for the Inception Report no later than 10th of August

Each partner has to send to DICMA all the technical contribution no later than 10th of September 2014 (except some September activities)

Each partner has to send to DICMA all the dissemination contribution no later than 10st of September 2014 (except some September activities)

Each partner responsible for a Deliverable has to send to DICMA the Deliverable no later than 10th of September 2014

DICMA will send to EC and Monitoring agency all the Inception Report documents no later than 30th of September 2014

E. MANAGEMENT

Cost analysis

PARTNER CLAIM

PersonnelPersonnel June 2014 Travel

Travel June 2014

External assistanc

e

External assistance June 2014

Consumables

Consumables June 2014

Overheads

Overheads June

2014 TOTALTOTAL

June 2014

DICMA 232,500

15,347.59

12,390

3,000.00

45,800

20,770.00

100,000

500.00

26,637

2,773.23

417,327

42,390.82

ASTRA 102,000

9,699.09

12,390

1,000.00

8,000

763.76

40,000

10,025.71

13,000

1,504.20

175,390

22,992.76

CEBAS 102,000

13,997.41

10,990

590.91

29,200

80,000

5,226.66

15,000

1,387.05

237,190

21,202.03

ENIA 142,000

9,262.89

11,090

3,000.00

2,400

80,000

64,400.00

16,000

5,366.40

251,490

82,029.29

ENEA 124,500

30,000.00

12,390

3,000.00

58,600

720.00

60,000

3,000.00

18,000

2,570.40

273,490

39,290.40

TOTAL 703,000

78,306.98

59,250

10,590.91

144,000

22,253.76

360,000

83,152.37

88,637

13,601.28 1,354,887

207,905.30

Project meetings

1st Kick off meeting in DICMA in Italy in January 2014Monitoring meeting in DICMA in Italy in April 20142nd Coordination meeting in CEBASCSIC in Murcia (Spain) on July 10th 2014

Next Project meeting3rd Coordination meeting in ENEA/ASTRA in Italy on January 2015