Who is Who

SHAPE aims to create a greener border region by bringing together German and Dutch partners to develop and implement innovative solutions to promote soil health, which will contribute to sustainable agriculture and environmental protection in the long term. The project, whose kick-off event took place on July 23, 2024 (see photo), runs until August 30, 2027, and has a total budget of €3,838,997.40 . The Interreg funding amounts to €2,247,698.25 and is co-financed by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Protection and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, and the Province of Gelderland . The consortium’s own contribution is €1,591,299.15.

All partner companies are located in Gelderland or North Rhine-Westphalia. The participating SMEs include RheWaTech – Rhine-Waal Institute of Technology (Grieth), Hubert Reyers Agricultural Company (Kleve), RF-Frontend GmbH (Kamp-Lintfort), Rheinland Technologie GmbH (Kalkar), Gröger Engineering Office (Willich), Royal Eijkelkamp BV (Giesbeek), HAL24K Agri BV (Giesbeek), Nieuwenhuis-Wezendonk (Loil), and KnowH2O (Berg en Dal). Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences from Kleve completes the consortium.

RheWaTech

Birgit Mosler

CEO RheWaTech

Projektleitung
PR und Kommunikation

Kristina Meschke

Projektmanager

Projektmanagement und PR

Nick Schreiner

Projektmanager

Projektmanagement und PR

RheWaTech

HAL24K

Peter den Hartog

PhD, Chief Science Officer

Peter is responsible for managing the technical team within HAL24K Agri including the HAL24K Agri SHAPE working group

Fabio Mendez

Principal Software Engineer

Fabio is responsible for the data management
and software development

Jonna van den Berg

MSc, Soil Biologists

Jonna is responsible for the soil samples,
protocols, soil sample preparation
and soil sample analysis

Luiz Felippe

PhD, Senior Data Scientist

Luiz is responsible for data science modelling
and statistical methods

Ko Wang

MSc, Soil Biologists

Ko is responsible for the soil samples,
protocols, soil sample preparation
and soil sample analysis

Bob Klein Langhorst

Chief Soil Officer

Bob is responsible for soil intelligence and health monitoring.

HAL24K

Eijkelkamp

Marco Lichtenberg

R&D Manager

Marco is mainly working on the LIBS-system in work package 3.2.

Thijs Teerlink

Director Data Solutions

Thijs is amongst other things responsible for developing the Soil Health Monitor and the underlying database structure.

Simone Quadvlieg

Junior Information Analyst

Simone is working on the LIBS-system in work package 3.2, developing the concept of the mobile SHAPE unit and doing database work.

Eijkelkamp

HSRW

Florian Wichern

Professor of Soil Sciences and Plant Nutrition

Florian´s research focuses on improving nutrient and carbon use efficiency of food systems. He aims to quantify nutrient flows at different scales from the plant-soil-microbe interface to the regional scale in order to assess management and abiotic stress effects on soil organic matter accumulation and nutrient provision to plants.

Rolf Becker

Professor of Physics with Focus on Sensors and Mechatronics

Zhyldyz Oskonbaeva

PhD candidate

Zhyldyz´s research aims to investigate the interactions between soil properties, plant characteristics, and environmental factors in forest ecosystems. Specifically, she is interested in understanding how climate change impacts soil microbial communities, nutrient cycling, plant physiology, and fruit quality.

Nadja Brender

PhD candidate

Nadja’s research explores the impacts of diverse agricultural management practices on soil health, with a focus on soil organisms and nutrient cycling. Her work examines the relationships between farming methods, soil biological communities, and the ecological processes that sustain fertile, resilient soils.

HSRW

RF Frontend

Oemer Oezguen Uengueder

Developer

Technical collaboration in the subprojects TDR soil moisture, tensiometer profile, and nitrogen measurement

Peter Hildenhagen

Senior Developer

Management, coordination, and supervision of tasks in radio and measurement technology

Quang Nguyen

Working Student

Technical collaboration in the field of sensor technology

RF Frontend

KnowH20

Gé van den Eertwegh

PhD. Hydrologist, Director

With their expertise in in-situ measurement of soil moisture and soil water tension, modelling hydrology of field plots and field monitoring networks, KnowH2O is responsible for physical reference measurements for the decision support system, filling the databases and working on the Spatial TDR-prototypes.

Wilco Terink

Wilco is responsible for sensoring, modelling, and data/information portals

Dion van Deijl

Werkstudent Sensorik

Dion is responsible for sensoring, modelling and data/information portals

KnowH20

Ingenieurbüro Gröger

Norbert Gröger

Owner

Norbert is assisting in developing the SHAPE Field lab and sharing his horticultural experience while working on the Soil Health Monitor and in WP 4.

Ingenieurbüro Gröger

Rheinland Technologie GmbH

Olaf Neuhausen

Managing director

Olaf is mainly devoting his experience in spectroscopy for the LIBS-system in WP3.2.

Rheinland Technologie GmbH

Landwirtschaftlicher Betrieb Hubert Reyers

Hubert Reyers

Owner

Responsible for the Living Lab located on the German side of the border.

Landwirtschaftlicher Betrieb Hubert Reyers

Niewenhuis-Wezendonk

Theo Nieuwenhuis

Owner

Responsible for the Dutch Living Lab.

Niewenhuis-Wezendonk

Associated Partners

Agrobusiness Niederrhein e.V.

The goal is clear: By 2030, the Lower Rhine region will become one of the most competitive, sustainable, and innovative agribusiness/food regions in Europe.

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Landwirtschafts-kammer NRW

(Fachbereich 61)

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Careful treatment of the Earth – Careful treatment of people – Distribution of surpluses and self-limitation

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Together for vital soil

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Eine Region tischt auf: Die Genussregion Niederrhein serviert ein buntes Menü aus regionalen Spezialitäten, kulinarischen Streifzügen und authentischen Aktiverlebnissen – nachhaltig und klimafreundlich.

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