A series of workshops communicating SPIN-FERT’s interdisciplinary research through sensory experiences, including compost assessment by smell and imagining soil complexity through music.
Art-Science project by Carmelo Cannarella at the PLANTES laboratory (Phytoacoustic Lab and Natural Terrestrial Environments Sounds). PLANTES was created at the Institute for Biological Systems of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ISB) to explore the connections between sound, nature, and science: it serves as a meeting point between scientific research, the arts, and technology. The laboratory focuses on studying the sounds of terrestrial ecosystems and the bioacoustic signals of plants, offering new perspectives on ongoing environmental changes.

The National Institute of Horticultural Research (Instytut Ogrodnictwa – Panstwowy
Instytut Badawczy) in Skierniewice, Poland (INHORT), is a governmental R&D organization supervised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The research programme of the Institute covers all areas related to horticulture, from basic studies to applied research, with emphasis on breeding, plant protection, agronomy, organic horticulture, storage and processing of both fruits and vegetables,
food safety, horticultural engineering, economics and marketing. The Institute’s
facilities consist of several laboratories with up-to-date instruments, greenhouses and screenhouses (50 chambers), and experimental fields (with total land area of about 200 ha).
INHORT is coordinating SPIN-FERT and is contributing to several tasks, including the development of innovative microbial formulation, trials with alternative growing substrates and development of innovative tools for assessing soil quality.
