Projects

Current projects

INTERESH

INnovation for TERitorial CohEsion around Soil Health. A collaboration project funded by EC under the Horizon Europe call [HORIZON-MISS-2024-SOIL-01]. Project coordinator: Prof. Nicola Faccilongo; UGent PI: Prof. Abdul Mouazen; Duration: 2025-2028 (€ 252 000 of the total project budget of € 1 999 937).

NitroScope

Scoping European N fluxes for sustainable N management and conservation practices. A collaboration project funded by EC under the Horizon Europe call [HORIZON-MISS-2024-CROSS-02]. Project coordinator: Prof. Abdul Mouazen; Duration: 2025-2029 (€ 1 944 912 of the total project budget of € 13 053 675).

WHEATWATCHER

Safe Wheat Agriculture Towards Sustainable Health: Innovative Sensing Techniques, and Holistic Spectroscopy Traceability for Improved Soil, Plant Health and Safe Wheat Grain. A collaboration project funded by EC under the Horizon Europe call [HORIZON-MISS-2023-SOIL-01]. Project coordinator: Prof. Abdul Mouazen; Duration: 2024-2028 (€ 1 064 436 of the total project budget of € 6 700 581.25).

VTskills

Cooperation for Upskilling and building Regional Ecosystems in sustainable precision viticulture. A collaboration project funded by EC under the Horizon Europe call [ERASMUS-EDU-2021-PI-ALL-INNO-EDU-ENTERP] — [Lot 1 - Alliances for Education and Enterprises]. Project coordinator: Prof. Manuel Perez, UGent PI: Prof. Abdul Mouazen; Duration: 2024-2027 (€ 123 118 of the total project budget of € 1 198 871).

NutriBudget

The Horizon Europe NutriBudget project aims to help agriculture to intensify sustainably in order to meet the demands of optimising yields without compromising environmental integrity or public health.

DESSTILLDEPTH

A research project funded by the Lithuanian Science Council “Development of a site-specific tillage depth management method based on the fusion of proximal sensing soil spectroscopy and telemetry (DESSTILLDEPTH)”. (Nr. ). Project coordinator: Prof. Abdul Mouazen; Duration: 5 years (2024-2027) (€ 199 997).

Former projects

ADDFerti

A Data-Driven Platform for Site-Specific Fertigation. A project funded by the ICT-AGRI-FOOD. Project Coordinator: Prof. Abdul Mouazen; Duration: 36 month (2021-2024), Gent University, BE (€349 922 of the total project budget of €1128 917).

POSHMyCo

Potential of selective harvest based on mycotoxins content assessment in cereal crops. A project funded by the ICT-AGRI-FOOD. Project Coordinator: Prof. Abdul Mouazen; Duration: 2021-2024), Gent University, BE (€318 500 of the total project budget of €741 900).

PAPAYA

Application of vis-NIR spectroscopy technique for predicting maturity indices of pawpaw (Carica papaya L.) at harvest and postharvest. A PhD project funded by UGent Research Council under Special Research Fund (BOF). Project Coordinator: Prof. Abdul Mouazen; Duration: 4 years (2019-2023).

SiTeMan

Towards Setting up a Centre of Site-specific Technology for Soil and Crop Management. Research Foundation of Flanders (FWO), 2017-2022, Ghent University (Total project budget: €3 500 000 - Project Coordinator: Abdul Mouazen).

SOILDARITY

Stepping up and bringing out the scientific excellence and innovation capacity in soil research of the University of Lisbon. A collaborative project funded by EC under the Horizon2020 cal H2020-Widespread-2020-5 (Nr. 952051). Project coordinator: Prof. Cristina Cruz, and UGent PI: Prof. Abdul Mouazen; Duration: 36 months (2020-2023). (€242 875 of the total project budget of €899 976).

SIEUSOIL

A collaborative project funded by EC under the Horizon2020 call H2020-SFS-2018-2020 “Sino-EU Soil Observatory for intelligent Land Use Management”. Project general coordinator: Prof. Dimitrios Moshou, and scientific coordinator: Prof. Abdul Mouazen; Duration: 36 months (2019-2022). Project budget: €503 650 of the total project budget of €4 958 475.

Agri-EPI Centre

Agriculture Engineering-Precision Innovation Centre. A joint project between Cranfield University, Harper Adams University and Scottish Rural University College. Funded by Innovate UK, 2015-2019, Cranfield University (Total project budget is €27 000 000 - Cranfield PI: Abdul Mouazen).

Tru-Nject

Proximal soil sensing based variable rate application of subsurface fertiliser injection in vegetable/ combinable crops. Funded by Technology strategy Board (TSB) and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), 2014-2017, Cranfield University (Total project budget of €1 753 000 - Cranfield PI: Abdul Mouazen).

FarmFUSE

Fusion of multi-source and multi-sensor information on soil and crop for optimised crop production system. Funded by DEFRA under ICT-AGRI, 2013-2016, Cranfield University (Total project budget of €691 562 - Project Coordinator: Abdul Mouazen).

FarmingTruth

Fusion of satellite and ground-based information on soil and crop for optimised crop production. Funded by European Space Agency, 2012-2013, Cranfield University (Total project budget of €600 000 – Project Coordinator: Abdul Mouazen).