We are delighted to announce that Aleks Czarnik recently joined us as a PhD student in the School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University and the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute (MUSSI). Aleks’ studies will be fully-funded by the EU, as part of the Horizon Europe project: P2GreeN. This project focusses on the potential to reclaim nutrients from human waste to be used in future agricultural production. Along with Dr. Mary Dobbs (Maynooth University) and Prof. Joseph McMahon (UCD), Aleks will be examining the varied and complex legal challenges that arise, in particular at the EU level and within selected Member States. Aleks will gradually focus more narrowly on these regions and will be undertaking significant elements of fieldwork for the project over the forthcoming years.
The objective of the P2GreeN Project is to foster a paradigm shift, from a linearly organised resource and nutrient system within the agri-food supply chain, towards a circular material flow system between urban and rural areas thereby restoring the coupling of the water-agri-food system using a holistic symbiotic resource management approach following the 3R principle “Reduce, Reuse, Recover”. You can find out more about this project here.