On 1st February, members of the research team from the University of Évora (Portugal), University Complutense of Madrid (Spain) and CEPAAL (Centro de Estudos e Promoção do Azeite do Alentejo), received a visit from José María de la Rosa, from IRNAS- SIC (Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) who explained in field, on some of the experimental olive grove plots, the use of biochar as a possible technologically sustainable solution (STS) for the reduction of erosion and soil loss in this type of crop. Also present were members of the company Plantas Continental, represented by its director Eloy Requena and Jesús Ortega, who gave a guided tour of an experimental farm of pest-resistant olive tree varieties located in Alentejo. Uevora/MED, Portugal (José Muñoz Rojas; Teresa Pinto Correia; Sergio Prats, Clarisse Brigido, Antonio Alberto Rodríguez Sousa (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Espanha)), IRNAS- SIC – Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Jose Maria de la Rosa); Plantas continental (Eloy Requena e Jesus Ortega); CEPAAL( Filipa Velez)