We already have our third crop of beans in Icta!!



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Next Thursday, March 28, from 8: 45h to 13:30 h. In the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Building Z: ICTA-ICP), there will be an open day where the results obtained in the Fertilecity-II project will be presented during the period 2017-18. It will show how you can grow fresh and healthy vegetables on the roof of buildings in urban environments in a sustainable way. Synergies with buildings from the point of view of energy and rainwater will also be shown. At the end there will be vegetable tasting.

If you wish to launch an innovative project in the field of sustainable agriculture, this open call is made for you!! You have an innovative project of rooftop greenhouse? Are you the owner of a flat roof building or you know someone with an available roof? Are you based in the North-West Europe area or Spain? If you meet these conditions, we invite you to participate in a pioneering project in construction and urban farming by developing a rooftop greenhouse, an innovative way to produce food locally and share energy. For more information: GROOF - Greenhouses to Reduce CO2 on Roofs and twitter: Groof project

On January 31, 2019, the first eco-innovation workshop was held for the eco-innovation of the FertileCity project as part of the research of the doctoral student Ana María Manríquez Altamirano, who coordinated the session together with the PhD. Jorge Sierra. The objective was to generate ideas for the material valorization of tomato stems. The participants were specialists in urban agriculture, product design, alternative materials for construction, biopolymers and ecomaterials.

The FertileCity team inaugurated the urban garden of the Hotel Moderno in Barcelona during the Working Session of the GROOF project on January 23.