Organic waste for improved productivity, water management, circular economy and economic development through composting

The University of Minho is a public Portuguese university located in the cities of Braga and Guimarães in the North of Portugal. The University’s mission is to generate, disseminate and apply knowledge, based on freedom of thought and plurality of critical expression, promoting higher education and contributing to the construction of a model of society based on humanistic principles, which has knowledge, creativity and innovation as factors of growth, sustainable development, well-being and solidarity. Among the goals of the University of Minho are human formation at the highest level, in its ethical, cultural, scientific, artistic, technical and professional aspects; to carry out research and participate in scientific institutions and events, promoting the permanent search for excellence, creativity; the transfer, exchange and valorisation of the scientific and technological knowledge produced, through the development of applied solutions; and interaction with society, through contributions to public understanding of culture, analysis and the presentation of solutions to major everyday problems, and partnerships for social and economic development, in regional, national or international contexts.

We are a group of higher education institutions looking for partners with expertise in organic residue management and composting, water management, and agriculture field assays to complement a consortium to work on valorisation of organic waste through innovative applications of compost. The consortium so far includes the University of Minho, Portugal; University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain; and the University of Lorraine, France.

Organic waste, compost, water management, sustainable agriculture