Welcome to Earth and Life Institute
The Earth and Life Institute (ELI) is a research institute from UCLouvain that gathers more than 450 scientists, covering a wide range of disciplines in the Earth and life sciences.
The aim of their research is to study and understand, at different scales, the fundamental physical, chemical and biological processes that govern the functioning of our planet, in order to develop sustainable solutions to some of the major challenges faced by our societies.
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Upcoming events
PHENET External Stakeholder Session
As part of the PHENET annual meeting, the Earth and Life Institute will be hosting an External Stakeholder Session, on September 10 (14:00-17:00), at UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).
The session will feature live demonstrations of tools and technologies developed across our use cases, one-on-one exchange slots with developers, and networking opportunities for a mixed audience of researchers, industry, farmers, policymakers, and more.
Program
- Introduction to PHENET: Short pitch on the project and its candidate services ready for deployment
- Live demonstrations: Developers present their tools, outputs and technologies
- One-on-one exchange: Private sessions with technology developers to discuss your needs
- Networking across sectors: Connect with researchers, industry partners, farmers
and policymakers
Technologies and tools on show
- Computer vision for wheat disease detection: G3 smart glasses & smartphone app & MobiLab
- Investigating soil and ecosystem phenomena with controlled environment setups
- Digital soil surveying & mapping with Subterra Green
- IntercropAgent: an AI tool for intercropping meta-analysis from scientific literature
- Phenomobile Demo & deep learning for apple orchard phenology across European environments
- SoilMap: Service for soil health & landscape monitoring
- IoT sensor networks for real-time field monitoring
- Bee colonies as indicators of ecosystem & landscape health
About PHENET
The PHENET project: tools and methods for extended plant PHENotyping and EnviroTyping services of European Research Infrastructures.
Europe urgently needs to find pathways towards agroecological transition of agroecosystems in support to food security, climate change resilience, biodiversity and soil carbon stocks restoration.
In PHENET, the European Research Infrastructures (RI) on plant phenotyping (EMPHASIS), ecosystems experimentation (AnaEE), long-term observation (eLTER) and data management and bioinformatics (ELIXIR) will join their forces to co-develop, with a diversity of innovative companies, new tools and methods – meant to contribute to new RI services – for the identification of future-proofed combinations of species, genotypes and management practices in front of the most likely climatic scenarios across Europe.
Find out more about the PHENET project on its website.
Meeting registration
Attendance is free but spaces are limited.
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