The SENSE project is officially launched. SENSE is funded by the ERA-NET Cofund ERA-NET SusAn, FACCE ERA-GAS, ICT-AGRI-FOOD ERA-NET and SusCrop ERA-NET, coordinated by the James Hutton Institute with partners Wageningen U&R, Uni Hohenheim, @bfdi_demeter, @CREA_Ricerca, Embrapa, INTA and INIA URUGUAY

SENSE partners met last week in Brazil for the first meeting in person, organized by Embrapa. Besides discussing the developments in the project, we had the opportunity to visit all case studies in Brazil, where we learned about integrated systems in various arrangements.

Curious about our logo? Fábio Fernandes Noleto, Graphic Designer Embrapa, tell us the story behind his creation:

¿Te interesan los sistemas silvopastoriles? Este año te invitamos a participar del XII congreso internacional de sistemas silvopastoriles en Uruguay. Allí encontrarás exposiciones, información, charlas, colegas, entre muchas otras actividades.

Last week, SENSE partners met in the Netherlands for the first Annual Meeting of the project, organized by Wageningen U&R. We discussed our first results and visited the two Dutch case studies and learned how innovative farmers are embracing circularity.

📢 We are pleased to announce that Round 6 of the CLIFF-GRADS Fellowship Programme is now open for student applications. Follow the link for more info & apply by 28 August 2023! globalresearchalliance.org/n/cliff-grads-… CLIFF-GRADS #CLIFFGRADS CGIAR Ryan Institute @ University of Galway IPCC #PhDfellowship

Last weeks have been intense in our experimental site at INTABalcarce belonging to the SENSE project: among the many measurements we took to evaluate circularity, we sampled soil bulk dens. , and also finished with the dasometric measurements in order to feed C models.

Don't miss the seminar of the Brazilian Chapter, organised jointly by Soil Carbon International Research Consortium & #IHSS-NOM ! It will address humic matter & biochar in #agriculture, carbon #sequestration solutions to enhance resilience and adaptation of agrosystems. Register here 👉 urlz.fr/mpAY

This week, SENSE project members attended the @XiicongresoSSP in Montevideo to present studies conducted in the project. On the 2nd day of the event, participants also had the opportunity to visit examples of silvopastoral systems in Uruguay.

#WorldSoilDay 🇧🇷 :high-level discussion on low-carbon agriculture, soil health and food production. A big "thank you" to ApexBrasil, Embrapa, Embrapa Cerrados Ministério da Agricultura e Pecuária, UFRGS, UFSC, FAO Brussels, EU_ScienceHub, EU Environment and Wageningen U&R. More  at <soilday.my.canva.site>

You can now download the Technical Briefs with the characterization of our case studies in Europe and South America from our website: sense-eranet.hutton.ac.uk/case-studies

This week, SENSE partners met in Germany for the second Annual Meeting of the project, organized by Uni Hohenheim. We discussed the strategy towards the end of the project and visited one of the German case studies and learned how regenerative farmers are embracing circularity.

You can now watch videos of our case studies where farmers and farm managers describe the areas and share their experiences with circularity in integrated systems: sense-eranet.hutton.ac.uk/videos