October 2022 – We are glad to announce that BASTA will be presenting at the 7th Green Carbon webinar series starting from October 27th with two talks from dr. Jarinda Viaene (17th of November 16:00 CET) and dr. Bart Vandecasteele (1st of December 16:00 CET).

Free registration at www.greencarbonwebinar.org

September 2022 – Two new posters will be shown at the BASTA booth @FestILVO https://www.festilvo.be/nl/

Watch Elisa Cavallin‘s video explaining her PhD research on the legal aspects of biochar

March 2022 – Preparations for the new strawberry trial with pcfruit have already been made…

June 2021 – In collaboration with pcfruit, the BASTA team organised a demonstration of the ongoing strawberry trial with alternative growing substrates with or without biochar.

The posters that were shown at the demonstration can be found below:


November 2020 – BASTA’s third evenent was hosted online with its focus on screening and using biochar during processes (collab. OWS) and in strawberry cultivation in growing media (collab. pcfruit).


February 2020 – BASTA’s second event was hosted at GreenVille and MEAM.


November 2019 – BASTA was present at the ManuResource conference at PXL presenting its first results in an oral and poster presentation, BASTA’s researchers also led a round table discussion on biochar.


June 2019 – BASTA was present at the demo-fair at GreenVille with its first results.


March 2019 – BASTA’s Kick-off event at the university campus in Hasselt.


December 2018 – Approval of the BASTA project!