Among the 121 projects approved in the announcement of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation that finances the creation of one hundred new National Institutes of Science, Technology and Innovation – Incts, only two are from the soil area and were approved by partners of SBCS.
Professor Clistenes Williams Araujo do Nascimento, from the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE) approved the creation of the InCT “National Institute of Biotechnologies for the mineral sector” (INABIM). Professor Carlos Ernesto Goncalves Reynaud Schaefer, from the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), approved the creation of InCT “Soils of Brazil: Innovation as a key for sustainable use”.
The National Institutes of Science, Technology and Innovation Program – Incts, is characterized by major long -term research projects in national and or international scientific cooperation networks involving researchers and scholars from various areas, for the development of high scientific impact and human resources projects. Each of the INCT currently running acts on a theme of different areas of knowledge, involving researchers and scholars in complex themes, structured in subprojects, many of which decentralized in different laboratories and centers that are part of the research network.
Each InCT has as coordination, an institution with excellence in scientific and/or technological production, high qualification in the formation of human resources and with the capacity to leverage resources from other sources, and by a set of laboratories or associated groups of other institutions, articulated in the form of scientific-technological networks, with an area or theme well defined, which are on the border of science and/or technology or in the strategic areas of the action plan, technology & technology Information – CT & I.
The projects
The InCT project “Soils of Brazil: Innovation as a key for sustainable use”, led by UFV, will have a funds of 11,825,672.00 and aims to establish an advanced network of research in soils in Brazil, with methodological and technological developments aimed at expanding national scientific capacity to meet the demands of agricultural production and sustainable use of soils.
Focusing on regionalized network studies in the Brazilian territory, the project seeks to improve new methodologies and research technologies, such as advanced sensors and artificial intelligence techniques, lifting, interpretation and mapping of soils throughout Brazil, in scales compatible with agricultural, urban and environmental planning, as well as more detailed scales, such as watershed and properties.
According to Professor Carlos Schaefer, this Inct will be an effort in a national network for the advancement of soil research, covering the main institutions in soil science in the country, and giving qualified continuity and support to the proposals for detailed and semi -deactated mapping of Brazilian soils, under the Pronasolos Program.
The proposal of the InCT “National Institute of Biotechnologies for the Mineral Sector” (INABIM), led by UFRPE, is to integrate national and international institutions in an inter and transdisciplinary network, with support from the private sector, to develop innovative solutions based on nature -oriented nature.
According to Professor Clístnes, INCT applies biotechnologies to mining to four thematic axes:
(1) Identification of hyperacumulating plants of strategic metals;
(2) remediation of contaminated areas through phytoexture and microorganisms;
(3) Biomineration with microorganisms for metal recovery;
(4) Use of vegetated technosols for carbon sequestration and phytoexture.
The initiative promotes circular economy, reducing environmental impacts and sustainable use of biodiversity, contributing to sustainable mining.
The amount to be released will be of incT was R $ 10,947,311.97.
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