ECOLUP

Project information
ECOLUP provides a solution to a global challenge: the underutilisation of by-products, co-products and waste streams in agriculture, farming and agri-food industry, particularly in the organic production. With ECOLUP we provide a specifically designed communication channel to connect the organic producers that want to sell their outputs (by-products, co-products or waste, which are organic as well), to the organic producers that want to obtain organic inputs, for applying them in their production. ECOLUP is planned to be a multiplatform based application being accessible from mobile, tablet devices and computers. Our users have either smartphones or tablets with them during their field work, but, according to our previous research, they will prefer to complete their profile in a standard computer. It will retreive some data from FIWARE, and it will be very active in feeding data to FIWARE, which is particularly useful for the organic farming sector due to the scarcity of representative data for this particular sector whose trends and behaviour are normally different from the conventional agri-food sector. We are fostering the creation of new opportunities for the valorisation of agricultural waste, by-and co-products resulting in a better use of resources that nowadays are underexploited, resulting in environmental and economic benefits for the organic community, diminishing also the investment in waste management. ECOLUP is presented as an intuitive and professional solution aimed at the organic farminc EU sector designed by specialists.
Project partners: 
EURIZON
Project dates: 
March 2014 to September 2016
Contact
Contact person: 
Irene Paredes
Contact email: 
Contact organisation: 
EURIZON
Funding
Funding agency: 
SmartAgriFood FIWARE accelerator
Grant: 
k€100
Total budget: 
k€127