24 Apr Great success of participation in the second stakeholders´ PhytoSUDOE Workshop held in Porto
A total of 45 stakeholders in the field of degraded soils management coming from the public administration, the scientific community and private companies, together with 22 students, attended the workshop held on April 17 in Oporto, at the Higher School of Biotechnology of the Portuguese Catholic University.
The program included 12 talks where besides the progress of the project (whose results will be presented in detail at the Final Conference on October 11), included topics as diverse as the role of mycorrhizae in urban trees, the potential of biochar to recover degraded soils, and practical examples of management of degraded spaces by private companies such as Geoambient (Serfim group), EDM (Empresa de Desenvolvimento Mineiro) or ERASE (Empresa para a Regeneração e Ambiente dos Solos de Estarreja).
Together with leading researchers in the field of phytoremediation in Europe, such as Filip Tack (Ghent University) or Jörg Rinklebe (University of Wuppertal) that presented their latest works, the workshop was attended by several members of public agencies and companies that manage and/or act on degraded spaces in Galicia and Portugal.
In addition to the programmed talks, posters were exhibited with works selected by the attendees that could be visited and commented during the workshop. Finally, to close the workshop, a round table was organized (moderated by Michel Mench of INRA in Bordeaux, in the image below) where attendees could interact with the promoters of the workshop on the areas of interest where public-private collaboration can have greater development in the field of phytomanagement.
On the following day (April 18), the second annual meeting of PhytoSUDOE was held, where the project partners explained their progress and the pending work was organized until the end of the project (October 31, 2018).
