Between July 7 and 11, 2019, the 10th International Conference of the International Society of Industrial Ecology where the junior researchers from Sostenipra, Perla Zambrano and Joan Muñoz-Liesa participated with the oral presentations at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Urban typologies and construction use for non-profit urban agriculture and urban rooftop in cities: a Mediterranean case study and Improving the performance of cities: the implementation of the water-energy-food nexus on the rooftops. The theme of the conference: "Industrial Ecology for Eco-civilization". Keynote speakers: University of Leiden (Netherlands), Yale University (America), Tohoku University (Japan), University of Sydney, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

The Conference held in Angers, France, from June 16th to 20th 2019, was an opportunity to bring together researchers, technicians and other professionals to present our research innovations in greenhouse horticulture and plant factory, to share ideas and knowledge and discuss state-of-the-art and future perspectives for the sheltered crop production sector. The junior researchers of Sostenipra Veronica Arcas, Perla Zambrano, Felipe Parada and Joan Muñoz-Liesa presented works of our rooftop greenhouse abording energy, water, roof materials, fertilizer and LCA topics.

On June 7 at the facilities of the School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona-UPC, the Executive Council Meeting of FertileCity II was held to discuss new proposals and contributions for the new project that will continue to FertileCity II. Results of the work in progress related to environmental analysis and the residual biomass of the project were also presented.

In April, our tomato harvest of the 2019 campaign began!

Fertilecity has a new doctor in the house! Congratulations to Dr. Mireia Ercilla on defending her dissertation "Air, food and soilless substrate quality assessment in rooftop agriculture".
This doctoral thesis aims to fill these gaps by addressing the following research questions:
Question 1: Does atmospheric heavy metal pollution in cities contaminate soilless crops from RA and RTGs?
Question 2: Are the biological air conditions in RTGs adequate to provide safe working environments? And in the case of i-RTGS, can its air be recirculated while ensuring safe environment for building users?
Question 3: Are we using adequate substrates for urban agriculture to mitigate the effects of climate change and increase resilience to drought?
Question 4: What is the consumer's perception of RA and products grown in these systems?