Cardiff Met Circular Economy team helps nature project access government funding

A new project, Nature Protects, which turns algae into fertiliser, has accessed Welsh Government funding with support from the award-winning Circular Economy Innovation Communities (CEIC) project at Cardiff Met.

The CEIC team accessed the Welsh Government-funded ‘New to the Circular Economy’ Fund (N2CE Fund) to conduct a feasibility study into turning leftover material from microalgae into a useful liquid fertiliser.

Dr Gary Walpole, Director of CEIC, said: “We co-created, with Welsh Government, a seed-corn fund for organisations looking to develop circular economy innovation projects. The pilot New to Circular Economy fund offered organisations up to £10,000 in grants as part of a £15,000 scoping or feasibility phase of a new product or service. CEIC Wales supported 77 organisations to develop outline applications with 27 presenting their proposed projects to a Welsh Government panel and 18 organisations successfully secured funding to develop robust feasibility studies for their proposed circular economy innovation project.”

Find out more about Nature Protects and the results of the feasibility study by watching the video above.