17.01.2023
From January 19 to January 28, the "Land-Innovation Lausitz" project will be presenting itself at the Green Week in Berlin.
At the exhibition booth, a miniature model will be used to demonstrate solutions that have been developed in the transformation region as part of the project.
The aim of "Land-Innovation-Lausitz" (LIL) is to develop Lusatia into a model region for adapting land use to climate change. This is to be achieved with the help of innovative technologies and sustainable forms of use on a bioeconomic basis. More than 60 partners from research, business, agriculture, politics and administration are currently working together to achieve this.
The research and development projects focus on the innovation areas of soil, plants and materials, the integration area of cultural landscape and the cross-sectional area of digitalization and sensor technology. The project teams each come from science and practice and conduct research into resource-efficient cultivation systems, drought stress-resistant crops and bio-based plastics, among other things. Very different projects such as a truffle plantation and the World Heritage Initiative of the Lusatian post-mining landscape are united under the umbrella of LIL. The projects are researching the dual use of climate-resilient crops such as sunflowers and chickpeas, developing monitoring of landscape surfaces and biodiversity using drone and satellite data and agroforestry recycling management. One project utilizes iron hydroxide sludge and aims to develop a valuable soil additive from it. And much more!
"Land-Innovation-Lausitz" is jointly managed by the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg and the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) and is funded as part of the "Change through Innovation in the Region" (WIR!) program of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
With this funding program, the BMBF aims to strengthen innovation and structural change in selected regions. The funded initiatives are intended to bundle regional expertise, establish new collaborations between science, industry and society and thus provide important impetus in the respective region. In the long term, the aim is to create partnerships that form sustainable, self-supporting structures.
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