Project “How to stay alive in V4? Phosphorus Friends Club builds V4's resilience” (acronym PhosV4)”.PhosV4

Project aims to increase knowledge and awareness of importance of Phosphorus (P) raw materials for food production in Visegrad Group (V4 – Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) and build P management strategy in V4 to secure enough P for food production.

PhosV4VisegardClub builds V4's resilience” (acronym PhosV4)Project “How to stay alive in V4? Phosphorus Friends

Project aims to increase knowledge and awareness of importance of Phosphorus (P) raw materials for food production in Visegrad Group (V4 – Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) and build
P management strategy in V4 to secure enough P for food production. Project includes inventory on P-rich waste in V4 countries and economic analysis of possibilities of P recovery from waste. It also includes various awareness-raising events, as workshops and summary conference. Project products as Roadmap for P management in V4 will accelerate implementation of P recovery in V4 and increase independence from P import, and ensure safety of food production during/after COVID pandemic.

Project PhosV4 is financed by the Visegrad Fund.

The project includes the organization of four workshops:

  • 1st workshop “Our Phosphorus Raw Materials. Our Food. Our Future - V4's resilience in the face of pandemic” – online (2021),
  • 2nd workshop “Phosphorus recovery - challenges and perspectives in V4” - online (2022),
  • 3rd workshop “Inventory of phosphorus raw materials in V4” - hybrid (2022),
  • 4th workshop “Building V4's resilience: Roadmap for Sustainable and Circular Phosphorus Management” - online (2023)

and one international conference “Building V4's resilience in post-COVID period - Phosphorus Importance in V4 countries” in Poland (2023).

Contact details

Contact person: Prof. Marzena Smol

E-mail:

Website: https://phosv4.eu/

Implementation period: 2021-09-01 - 2023-12-31

Project Partners

Lead Partner:

  • Mineral and Energy Economy Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences  (Poland)

Partners:

  • · Bay Zoltán Nonprofit Ltd. for Applied Research (Hungary)
  • · Technical University of Kosice (Slovakia)
  • · Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic)
  • · Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW (Poland)

Funding

The project PhosV4 - “How to stay alive in V4? Phosphorus Friends Club builds V4's resilience”
is financed by Visegrad Fund.