Kekkilä-BVB is taking part in the EU funded project BIOSCHAMP. The BIOSCHAMP aims to develop an integrated approach to tackle the mushroom cultivation challenges: an alternative and sustainable peat-free biostimulant casing for the mushroom industry, reducing the dependency on and need for pesticides and contributing to improve the productivity, the sustainability, and the profitability of the European mushroom sector.

The project started on October 2020, it will last 3.5 years and gathers 12 partners from 6 different countries:
The Mushroom Technological Research Center of La Rioja (Asociacién Profesional de Productores de Sustratos y Hongos de La Rioja, Navarra y Aragén) (ES) (ASOCHAMP-CTICH)-Project coordinator-, Inagro vzw_ (BE), Stichting Wageningen Research (NL), CSIC (ES), Fertinagro Biotech (ES), Ekofungi (RS), Innovarum (ES), EUROCHAMP (ES), Kekkilä-BVB (NL), NF Fibre B.V. (NL), Uprawa Grzybéw tukasz Kiwata (PL) and University of Oxford (UK).
To see more details, visit project website: www.bioschamp.eu BIOSCHAMP Twitter: https://twitter.com/BIOSCHAMP BIOSCHAMP LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/bioscham

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 101000651.