In 2022, the BIOREFINE and H2020 FERTIMANURE project, launched the Nutrient Recycling Community (NRC), a platform aimed to exchange knowledge and good practices and foster collaboration between initiatives and projects around nutrient recycling in Europe.

The NRC has recently been re-branded into the European Sustainable Nutrient Initiative (ESNI) to acknowledge the interconnection with the annual ESNI Conference, launched by the BCE in 2019 to bring together EU projects, stakeholders and EU officials with the ambition to keep nutrient management high on the EU agenda!

ESNI aims to foster collaboration among European entities engaged in nutrient recycling, facilitating the exchange of valuable experiences and identifying knowledge gaps to guide future research.

As core part of this initiative, the ESNI community set up 4 Working groups, led by European projects, discussing major challenges with an impact on the nutrient recycling and recovery. At present, the following working groups are active:

• Technologies for nutrient recycling coordinated by FERTIMANURE;
• Agronomic performance of fertilising products coordinated by LEX4BIO;
• Sustainability assessment coordinated by NOVAFERT;
• Policy coordinated first by NUTRI2CYCLE and currently led by RENU2CYCLE.

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