{"id":9559,"date":"2026-07-22T11:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/?p=9559"},"modified":"2026-07-22T11:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:45:16","slug":"e4-million-grant-for-new-ai-research-into-sustainable-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/e4-million-grant-for-new-ai-research-into-sustainable-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"\u20ac4 Million grant for new AI research into sustainable agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"9559\" class=\"elementor elementor-9559\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-64daefe6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"64daefe6\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-22dac4e1\" data-id=\"22dac4e1\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-78fff3a4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"78fff3a4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n    <div style=\"display:flex; align-items:flex-start; gap:30px;\">\n\n        <div style=\"flex:1; padding:0; margin:0;\">\n\n            Our Daily Board member Ronnie de Jonge has secured a \u20ac4 million European grant to develop <a href=\"https:\/\/mailings.uu.nl\/i\/NibE_i9f6VetFu_8tszcO8ovd46Zyenn\">AI tools that support more sustainable agriculture<\/a>. The project will use artificial intelligence to predict the best combinations of beneficial soil microbes, helping crops become more resilient while reducing the need for chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Researchers from five European partners will collaborate on the project.\n\n            <p style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:0;\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/mailings.uu.nl\/i\/BM4eRJKKTGGkUi6cqRfa47WbCBHuG944\"\n                   style=\"font-weight:bold;\">\n                    Read more\n                <\/a>\n            <\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n\n\n        <div style=\"width:250px; margin:0; padding:0;\">\n\n            <img decoding=\"async\" \n                src=\"https:\/\/mailings.uu.nl\/c\/hOmk1hd6Lhhgtu1xjntIIQ\/media\/UBC-Ronnie-de-Jonge.jpg\"\n                alt=\"\u20ac4 Million grant for new AI research into sustainable agriculture\"\n                style=\"\n                    width:250px;\n                    max-width:100%;\n                    height:auto;\n                    display:block;\n                    margin:0;\n                \"\n            \/>\n\n        <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n    \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Daily Board member Ronnie de Jonge has secured a \u20ac4 million European grant to develop AI tools that support more sustainable agriculture. The project will use artificial intelligence to predict the best combinations of beneficial soil microbes, helping crops become more resilient while reducing the need for chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Researchers from five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":1010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"page_builder":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,408,397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlights","category-news_freestyle","category-research"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/UBC-Ronnie-de-Jonge.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9559"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9610,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9559\/revisions\/9610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}