Issue (WIWE) status: Submitted, Unpublished

Weak Signal's progress: Nominated

This Weak Signal came from: 
European Commission Framework Programme for RTD

The theme/scheme related to this Weak Signal: 
Theme 2 - Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology

The sub-theme that best relates to this Weak Signal: 
Increased sustainability of all production systems (agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture)

Weak Signal's description: 

Especially EUPHOROS project reference (211457) aims at developing a sustainable greenhouse system that: does not need any fossil energy & minimizes carbon footprint of equipment; with no waste of water nor emission of fertilizers and full recycling of the substrate; with minimal need of plant protective chemicals yet with high productivity and resource use efficiency. Even an incremental adoption by the growers of the project results will increase competitiveness while reducing the European greenhouse production. There are many other projects working in this field as well.