EIT Food proudly announces the winner of the 2025 ReGrow.UA Request for Proposal: the My Syla Charitable Foundation.
The organization will receive €40,000 in funding to execute its innovative project entitled “National Platform for Soil and Water Contaminant Intelligence.”
This project aims to aid Ukraine’s agricultural recovery by trialing the nation’s first open-access environmental data platform to map and mitigate war-induced soil and water contamination. It will offer farmers, cooperatives, and local authorities interactive maps and evidence-based guidance on land utilization, safe cultivation, and remediation methods.
My Syla will carry out this initiative in close partnership with the newly established Centre of Excellence for Life Sciences, Agriculture, and Bioingenuity (CE-LAB). This collaboration unites leading Ukrainian institutions, including the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences (NUBiP) and the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences, whose combined expertise guarantees the project’s scientific integrity and practical impact for Ukrainian farmers.
During a six-month pilot phase, the project will:
- Collect and analyze up to 100 soil and 50 water samples monthly from war-affected regions;
- Launch a user-friendly prototype platform featuring GIS-based maps and decision-support tools;
- Train users, including farmers and agronomists, in utilizing the platform and interpreting the data;
- Engage agri-tech start-ups to explore future services based on the platform’s environmental intelligence.
By emphasizing data-driven recovery, the project will enable farmers to make informed land use decisions, apply for government aid, and safely resume food production on formerly contaminated lands.
The platform is envisioned as a scalable solution, with the potential to develop into a national-level agricultural data infrastructure—a future “digital backbone” for Ukraine’s green recovery.
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