Innovation demands focus. For the IASIS consortium, recent months have been defined by deep work.

We have been heads-down in the lab and out in the field because the challenge we are tackling demands precision.

Europe faces a growing challenge of land degradation, with millions of hectares affected by contamination from past industrial activity and soil salinization due to summer droughts and rising sea levels. This poses significant risks to human health, ecosystems, and agricultural productivity.

These lands are unusable for food, unsafe for people, and economically dead, yet they can be turned into a resource. By growing industrial crops that can thrive in these conditions and by applying innovative phytomanagement approaches, IASIS partners are working to turn these problem areas into engines of the circular bioeconomy that fuel the production of bio-based products such as bioplastics, green adhesives, building materials and other.

Over the last months our teams have been translating this strategy into tangible progress: 

✅ Establishing pilot fields of industrial crops in contaminated sites France, Belgium, Poland, Greece, Italy and Portugal

✅ Identifiying and optimizing improved genotypes of halophytes such as Salicornia that can grow on saline soils

✅ Isolating novel microbial strains to boost plant survival in toxic soils. 

✅ Analyzing the biomass from these crops to ensure contaminants are extracted and the final products are safe.

✅ Testing various feedstock for the production of bio-based products.

Our pilot sites are up and running as well as the downstream processing activities. We invite you to follow along as we explore every stage of the IASIS value chain, with updates from our lab and field activities as we move from soil management to crop production and biomass processing.