Bay Zoltán Nonprofit Ltd. for Applied Research participates in the project Raising the bio-based industrial feedstock capacity of Marginal Lands (MarginUp!).

At the present, 60-70% of all soils in Europe are in unhealthy conditions, mainly because of poor land management practices, pollution of soils, intensive agriculture, and the constant effects of climate change. This situation is further aggravated given that 25% of land is at a high or very high risk of suffering desertification in most parts of Europe.

MarginUp! proposes a strategy to secure use and return profitability on marginal lands. Its main objective is to introduce climate-resilient and biodiversity-friendly non-food crops for sustainable industrial feedstock in marginalised and low-productivity lands. The project will focus on producing biomass to be used as raw material for the production of bioproducts and biofuels, which in turn, will create a sustainable and circular value chain, increasing the farming system resilience in rural areas. To further enhance the biodiversity beneficial impact, MarginUp! is focusing on understanding which marginal lands are suitable for low ILUC biomass production.

MarginUp! is learning from seven case study sites around the globe, including Argentina and South Africa, and five full-scale use cases in Europe: Germany, Greece, Hungary, Spain, and Sweden. MarginUp! is directly contributing to European policies such as the European Green Deal, the Circular Economy action plan and the Bioeconomy and Biodiversity strategies.

Implementation period: 01/12/2022– 30/11/2026

Partners:
29 partners, from 10 countries. Coordinator: LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUR AGRARTECHNIK UND BIOOKONOMIE EV (Germany)

Project website:
https://margin-up.eu/

The project in social media:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/marginup-eu/
https://twitter.com/MarginUp_EU

Further information:
Ms. Katalin KÁLAI international project manager
katalin.kalai@bayzoltan.hu


This project has received funding from the Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Funding Programme of the European Union.