ИНСТИТУТ ПО ПОЧВОЗНАНИЕ "НИКОЛА ПУШКАРОВ

INSTITUTE OF SOIL SCIENCE "NIKOLA POUSHKAROV"

International projects

1. A decision Support System to quantify cost/benefit relationships of the use of vegetation in the management of heavy metal polluted soils and dudged sediments, Phyto Dec, EVK 1-CT-1999-00024, Fifth Framework program;
2. Opening Channels in Communications Between the Associated Candidate Countries and the EU in Ecological Farming, FOOD-CT-2004-003375, Sixth Framework Program;
3. Floods and other region weather-driven natural hazards-Prediction and Mitigation (WDNH); Soil Data Bulgaria, European Commission – Directorate General JRC, ISPRA, IES.B381372;
4. Impact of joint practices of irrigation and fertilization on agro-environmental performances in the case of bi-dimensional transfer (surface irrigation and micro-irrigation); Three-lateral project Soil science Institute-Sofia, Bulgaria; CEMAGREF, Montpellier, France and HYDROMELIORACIE, Bratislava, Slovakia;

5. Effect of land management, soil and climate on productivity and environment in Bulgaria Department of Rural Engineering, NATO – INVOTAN 2004-2005, High Institute of Agronomy, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal (UTL-DER-ISA).

6. Environmental Assessment of Soil Monitoring (ENVASSO), SSPI-022713, Sixth Framework Program;
6. Capacity Building for Sustainable Land Management in Bulgaria, UNDP, 2006-069-POG;
7. Policy incentives for climate change mitigation agricultural techniques (PICCMAT), SSPE-CT-2006-044148, FP6-2005-SSP-5-A, Sixth Framework Program;

 http://climatechangeintelligence.baastel.be/piccmat/adaptation.php
8. Soil sustainability in Europe as deduced from investigation of the Critical Zone (SoilCritZone), 037092, FP6-2005-Global-4, Sixth Framework Program;

http://sustainability.gly.bris.ac.uk/soilcritzone/
9. Implementation of Nitrate Directive,91/676 EEC, contract № 2007/47 674/MAR/B1;
10. Promoting Biogas in Eastern Europe- :mobilization of decision makers and training for farmers, BiG East, Intelligent Energy- Europe (IEE), EIE/07/214/S12.467620;
11. Assessment and strategic development of INSPIRE compliant Geodata-Services for European Soil Data, “eContentplus", European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate General, ECP 318004- GS Soil;

http://www.gssoil.eu/

12. Drought Management Centre for South East Europe (DMCSEE), SEE/A/091/2.2/X, South East Europe transnational cooperative program co-funded by the European Regional Development fund ERDF;

http://www.dmcsee.eu/

13. Soil Transformations in European Catchments” (SoilTrEC), № 244118 (FP7-ENV-2009-1)

http://www.soiltrec.eu

Bilateral collaboration

1. England, National Soil Research Institute, Cranfield University
2. Belgium, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Department of Agronomy and Ecophysiology, Ghent University; Ecolas, Antwerpen
3. Italy, University of Sassari, Sardinia
4. France, COCOP 2003, CEMAGREF, Monpellier
5. Macedonia, Research Center, Scopie
6. Poland, Institute of Agrophysics, Lublin
7. Greece, The Goulandris Natural History Museum, Athens
8. Cyprus, Higher Technical Institute, Department of Civil Engineering, Nikosia
9. Slovakia, Soil Science and Conservation Research Institute, Bratislava
10. Russia, Russian National Research Institute of Constructions, Engineering Projects, Organic Fertilization and Peat, Vladimir; Siberian Institute of Physical Engineering and Agrarian Problems, Krasnoobsk, Novosibirsk;