Stichting Dienst Landbouwkundig Onderzoek

Wageningen University and Research Centre (Wageningen UR) is a collaboration between Wageningen University and the specialised former research institutes (Stichting Dienst Landbouwkundig Onderzoek - DLO) from the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture. This combination of knowledge and experience enables Wageningen UR with its 5,500 staff and more than 8,500 students to contribute actively to solving scientific, social and commercial problems in the field of life sciences and natural resources. Wageningen UR approaches these national and international issues from the perspectives of various disciplines, with an integrated approach and in close collaboration with governments, companies, stakeholder organisations, citizens, and other knowledge institutions. DLO embodies strategic and fundamental research as well as applied research in which researchers are operating in close co-operation with farmers, companies and governments to establish innovations.

The main tasks for DLO in the project concerns on one hand side the biology and production of algae based on our pilot scale level open pond and closed photobioreactors and on the other side the economics and social sustainability.