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Revolutionizing Soil
Novihum and Horizon 2020
Agenda
• About Novihum
• Novihum today
• Novihum and Horizon 2020
• Audit
• Grant Agreement
- General information
- Eligible and ineligible costs
• Prearrangement
• Questions and Answers
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Revolutionizing Soil
Novihum is the superior humus
granulate that immediately
upgrades soils for the long term
Was ist Humus? 22.06.2017 4
History
• 1990er - Arbeiten an der TU Dresden zur Umwandlung von Lignin (Abfallprodukt der Zellstoffindustrie) in
einen Humusersatzstoff, erstes Patent für das Verfahren
• 1999 - Anmeldung des Novihum Patents „Organisches Düngemittel mit Huminstoffcharakter sowie
Verfahren zu seiner Herstellung und Verwendung“
• 2000er - Errichtung und Betrieb einer „Kleintechnischen Versuchsanlage“, Batch-Betrieb über mehrere
Jahre mit einer Gesamtproduktion von ca. 70 t Novihum
• 2012 - Gründung der Novihum Technologies GmbH in Dresden
• 2013 - Durchführung zahlreicher Pflanzenversuche an wissenschaftlichen Instituten und bei Pilotkunden,
um die Wirkung von Novihum nochmals unter Beweis zu stellen. Einstieg erster Venture Capital Investoren
• 2014 - Einstieg weiterer Investoren ermöglichen die Finanzierung einer Pilotanlage
• 2015 - Entscheidung für den Standort der Pilotanlage auf dem Gelände der Deutschen Gasrußwerke
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Historical planning
• Juli 2016 - Fertigstellung und Inbetriebnahme der Pilotanlage
• Bis Ende 2016 - Optimierung der Anlagenführung und Herstellung von ca. 500 t Novihum, Belieferung
ausgewählter Marktsegmente
• 2017 - Kontinuierlicher Weiterbetrieb der Pilotanlage zur Belieferung der Zielmärkte, bei Bedarf
Anlagenerweiterung zur Steigerung der Produktionsmenge; Erprobung der Herstellung neuer
Produktvarianten
Der Standort Dortmund auf dem Gelände der Deutschen Gasrußwerke ist auf 5 Jahre angelegt. Eine
Erweiterung der Produktionsmenge oder der Betrieb einer größeren Produktionsanlage ist derzeit in
Planung und kann auf dem an die DGW angrenzenden Industriegelände realisiert werden.
• Q4/2016 bis Mitte 2017 - Basic Engineering für eine Produktionsanlage mit einer Kapazität von 10.000 –
30.000 t/a Novihum, Festlegung des Standorts, Beantragung einer BImSchV-Genehmigung …
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Enterprise Europe Network Awards 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4beKMIoC5k
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Agenda
• About Novihum
• Novihum today
• Novihum and Horizon 2020
• Audit
• Grant Agreement
- General information
- Eligible and ineligible costs
• Prearrangement
• Questions and Answers
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Soil fertility: a worldwide issue
Loss of humic matter is a common cause of soil fertility issues
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Novihum: a game-changer
Product
• Increase plant yields while maintaining quality
• Enhances plant drought resistance and rooting
• Works immediately, re-apply every 3-5 years
Company
• Location: Dortmund (Germany), founded in 2012
• End 2016: pilot plant 1 kt p.a.
• Technology: demonstrated, scalable, IP-protected
Novihum Technologies GmbH - CONFIDENTIAL - 10 - 10Over 280 rigorous 3rd party field and laboratory trials
Cucumber: yield increase of ca. 40% Kohlrabi: yield increase of ca. 20%
Control
Standard
Fertilizer
Novihum
Novihum
• Demonstrated yield increase* in ca. 75% of all trials
• Median yield increase of 11.3 ± 0.8%
Brandenburg Technical Research Institute for Post-mining German University of
TEXAS A&M University Cottbus, Germany Landscape, Germany Technology, Oman
UNIVERSITY
* Based on meta-analysis using all trials where yield measurement is available (N=183), disregarding amount of Novihum applied, type of plant, experimental set-up, etc.
Q1= -2.05%; Q3=52.65%; IQR=54.70%; bias towards carbon-poor soils Novihum Technologies GmbH - CONFIDENTIAL - 11 - 11Novihum: targeting large addressable markets (10+bn€ p.a.)
Agriculture Landscaping Soil remediation
Beachhead markets
• Europe (south, central); USA, Canada
• Top-value horticultural crops (ca. 130 m€ p.a. sales potential) payback within 1 – 2 seasons
• Specialty substrates for landscaping (ca. 80 m€ p.a. sales potential) higher survival rates
Novihum Technologies GmbH - CONFIDENTIAL - 12 - 12Traction in Agricultural market: trials started in H1 / 2017
Collectively over 100k ha of accessible farmland
Novihum Technologies GmbH - CONFIDENTIAL - 13 - 13Agenda
• About Novihum
• Novihum today
• Novihum and Horizon 2020
• Audit
• Grant Agreement
- General information
- Eligible and ineligible costs
• Prearrangement
• Questions and Answers
Novihum Technologies GmbH - CONFIDENTIAL - 14 - 14Audit (at the example of Actual Personnel Costs) I
• PERSONNEL COSTS
• The employees were directly hired by the Beneficiary in accordance with its national legislation, under the
Beneficiary’s responsibility and remunerated in accordance with the Beneficiary’s usual practices
• Personnel costs did not contain any ineligible elements
• There were no discrepancies between the personnel costs charged to the action and the costs recalculated
by the Auditor
• The employees were charged under the correct category
• PRODUCTIVE HOURS
• Productive hours were calculated annually
• The calculation of the number of ‘annual workable hours’, overtime and absences was verifiable based on
the documents provided by the Beneficiary
• The ‘annual productive hours used for calculating the hourly rate were consistent with the usual cost
accounting practices of the Beneficiary
Novihum Technologies GmbH - CONFIDENTIAL - 15 - 15Audit (at the example of Actual Personnel Costs) II
• HOURLY PERSONNEL RATES
• The Beneficiary used the Commission-approved methodology to calculate hourly rates. It corresponded to
the organization's usual cost accounting practices
• The unit costs re-calculated by the Auditor were the same as the rates applied by the Beneficiary
• TIME RECORDING SYSTEM
• All persons recorded their time dedicated to the action on a daily/ weekly/ monthly basis using a
paper/computer-based system
• Their time-records were authorized at least monthly by the project manager or other superior
• Hours declared were worked within the project period and were consistent with the presences/absences
recorded in HR-records.
• There were no discrepancies between the number of hours charged to the action and the number of hours
recorded
Novihum Technologies GmbH - CONFIDENTIAL - 16 - 16Grant Agreement – General Information
• 226 Pages
• Terms and conditions: 57 Articles at 66 pages
• Annex A Part A: 28 pages of definitions
• Annex A Part B: 71 pages about Novihum
− Impact
− Implementation
− Members of the Consortium
− Ethics and security
• Budget and Audit: 53 pages
Novihum Technologies GmbH - CONFIDENTIAL - 17 - 17Grant Agreement - Implementation
Overall work plan
The work plan spans 24 months, with all activities led by NHT. It includes eight work packages: one for project management;
one for Pilot Facility operations; three for sales, product management, strategic market development, and dissemination and
exploitation; two for development and prototyping of product line extensions; and one for the engineering preparations for
scaling-up to a commercial industrial production plant.
Project Timing
The figure below shows the Gantt chart for the proposed Project and its eight work packages and milestones.
0 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24
WP1: Project Management
M1: Pilot Plant M2: 1st Year Pilot
WP2: Operation of Novihum Pilot Production Facility
Fully Operational Performance
WP3: Driving Market Entry: Marketing & Sales M3: First Sales M4: Media Focus
M5: Acceptance
WP4:Driving Market Entry: Product Management & Certification
& Certification
M6: Growth in
WP5: Strategic Market Replication, Int'l Dissemination, & Brand Building Volume Markets
M7: Product Extension
WP6: Product Development to Expand Novihum Product Line
Prototype Selection
WP7: Prototyping an Expanded Product Line at the Pilot Facility
M8: Go-ahead for
WP8: Pre-Engineering for Commercial Industrial Production Facility
commercial production plant
Novihum Technologies GmbH - CONFIDENTIAL - 18 - 18Grant Agreement – Eligible and ineligible costs
• General conditions for costs to be eligible
• Specific conditions for costs to be eligible
• direct personnel costs
• direct costs of subcontracting
• other direct costs
− Travel costs and related subsistence allowances
− depreciation costs of equipment, infrastructure or other assets
− Costs of other goods and services
− Capitalized and operating costs of research infrastructure
• indirect costs
• Conditions for in-kind contributions provided by third parties free of charge to be eligible
• Ineligible costs
Novihum Technologies GmbH - CONFIDENTIAL - 19 - 19Prearrangement I
• You have to know what you have to do
• Precise and careful planning
• Tell a true story
• Show what you do and how to do it
• Show confidence
• Where you are at the end of time (project) / what will happens than
• You have to know what your projects are
• Show the transition from R&D to Market
• Be very, very, very thoughtful - changes are almost not possible
Novihum Technologies GmbH - CONFIDENTIAL - 20 - 20Prearrangement II
• What is the essential part of the company
• Central functions of your company
• Clear structure of request (cooperation with ZENIT)
• useful review
• helpful feedback
• Discuss the draft
• Exact documentation
• Visualization - Reviewer haven’t so much time
• It’s a lot of work – native English speaker would be helpful
Novihum Technologies GmbH - CONFIDENTIAL - 21 - 21Revolutionizing Soil
www.novihum.com
Questions and Answers
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