This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 642224
The Conference was organized in Edinburgh (UK) by SRUC with the Association of Applied Biologists on 5-9 September and was attended by about 300 people from several European and world research institutions and universities. The session, coordinated by Elizabeth Stockdale (Newcastle University, UK), focused on how current and alternative agronomic practices can improve water quality by reducing nutrient, sediment, pathogen loads in surface waters in Europe. It hosted experimental and modelling approaches in annual or perennial cropping systems and at field and landscape scales. The Freewat poster teaser captured the interest of colleagues from some French research institutes, and was followed by a proposal to explore possible integration with a crop and crop rotation model.