Project
Title
Biochar COST Action TD1107
Acronym
BIOCHAR
Start
01.03.2012
End
28.02.2016
Coordinating Institute
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Coordinator
Bruno Glaser
Contact
Partner
Agricultural Research Organization
University Tartu
University of Aveiro, Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Portugal
Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología
Summary
EU COST Action TD1107 is a networking project granted by COST in the domain of Food and Agriculture. COST is an intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology, allowing the coordination of nationally-funded research on a European level. This Biochar COST Action runs from March 2012 to March 2016.
Current Biochar research in Europe is mushrooming but often fragmented and unnecessarily repeated. Thus, the aim of the Action is to expand and interconnect knowledge in Biochar systems, to assess environmental impacts of Biochar use and thus sharpen a promising global change mitigation tool up to the stage where economically feasible application will begin. Building a well interacting European Biochar Research Network (eBRN) of academic and industrial partners who perform basic research is the essential activity therefore. In terms of contents the work of eBRN and Biochar COST Action is organized in four thematic Working Groups.
Funding
Europäische Union (EU)
Funding agency
European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research
Grant agreement number
TD1107
Funding framework
COST