Therefore, the main goal of the project is to use the city’s waste to produce and valorise new products and food using an innovative process to produce urban soil, with the aim to increase local food self-sufficiency and minimise the environmental footprint of the city of Maribor. Urban soil 4 food project starts from the challenge of using cities‘ waste (biological and mineral) to produce a useful product (soil), which could be later used for meeting different cities‘ needs, such as food production, parks and construction. As main innovative output of the project, project partners will develop a safe and certified soil with by-production of energy (through using technology of fermentation and pyrolysis).

• Non-profit organisation (i.e. pursues a particular social cause, e.g. schools, foundations, social movement)
• Social enterprise (i.e. for-profit company, but has primary objective to achieve social and/or ecological benefits)
• Local government

• Raising awareness and/or political agenda-setting
• Facilitating dialogue and networking
• Developing and/or producing goods