A new project is underway under the European Union\u2018s Research and Innovation Action program Horizon 2020, within the topic of \u2018Space exploration \/ Life support.\u2019 Thirteen international organizations, including universities, corporations and small businesses, in the cross-disciplinary fields of food growth, life support, engineering and design come together in taking one step further towards the independent exploration in worlds unknown such as the Moon or Mars. During the four year project, they will collaboratively develop innovations in cultivating food in closed-loop systems.
\nEDEN ISS is a project focused on the \u2018Ground Demonstration of Plant Cultivation Technologies and -Operation in Space\u2019 and the enhancement of those technologies, \u2018For Safe Food Production on-board the International Space Station (ISS) and Future Human Space Exploration Vehicles and Planetary Outposts.\u2019<\/p>\n
The consortium is led by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) Institute of Space Systems in Bremen, Germany and includes the following partners:<\/p>\n
The overall goal of the EDEN ISS project is to further advance key controlled environment agriculture technologies beyond the state-of-the-art, including; an advanced nutrient delivery system, a high performance LED lighting system, a bio-detection and decontamination system and food quality and safety procedures and technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"