The RECAP Cluster of five Horizon Europe projects, including Wood2Wood, are organising their first joint workshop during the EU Green Week on June 3 in Brussels titled “From End-of-Life to Lease-of-Life: Circularity in Action“.
The workshop, an official EU Green Week Partner event of the European Commission, will delve into the application of AI, Digital Twins and Robotics for the manufacturing sector. Fotios Konstantinidis from ICCS/I-Sense-Group will be one of the speaker’s and Abhimanyu Chakravorty from ISWA will be the facilitator for the session from the Wood2Wood project.
Workshop and registration details
đź“… Wednesday, 3 June 2026
🕙 10:00 – 12:30 CEST
đź“Ť NTNU Brussels, Rue Guimard 9, Brussels
đź’» Hybrid participation available
Workshop description
Discover how AI, robotics, and digital twins are revolutionising resource efficiency and automation to drive Europe’s circular transformation. This session, part of EU Green Week 2026, will explore innovative solutions across critical, high-impact industries – including aerospace, construction and buildings, industrial manufacturing and advanced recycling. By demonstrating how digitalisation and advanced sorting enhance circularity, reduce waste, and recover secondary materials, this event highlights the technologies strengthening European competitiveness. Experts from leading EU-funded projects will showcase cutting-edge advancements that contribute to the EU Green Deal, the Clean Industrial Deal, and Europe’s strategic autonomy in raw materials.
This session will showcase how high-tech solutions enable circularity across the manufacturing and construction sectors.
Hosted by the RECAP cluster (Rethinking End-of-life through Circularity and Advanced Processes), this workshop will highlight EU-funded projects driving the sustainable valorisation of composites, industrial waste, critical raw materials (CRMs), and wood waste. Through expert presentations, the session will explore tech-driven solutions for minimising reliance on resources and optimising material lifecycles. It aims to connect researchers, industry leaders, and policymakers to foster collaboration and accelerate cross-sector circular innovation.
Open to policymakers, researchers, industry professionals, and stakeholders in digital innovation, automation, and the circular economy, the event offers a hybrid format for both in-person and online participation. Leading experts from the Horizon Europe projects CompSTLar, BIO4EEB, ICARUS, iBot4CRMs, and Wood2Wood projects will present real-world applications of AI, digital twins and robotics to give End-of-Life materials a new Lease-of-Life.
Agenda
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Keynote speaker
Antonio Ferrandez from the DG Research and Innovation, European Commission will be our keynote speaker. Antonio will speak about industrial research and innovation for the Circular Economy.
