The Wood2Wood project’s upcoming plenary meeting will take place on 6–7 July at Epinal, France, hosted by LERMAB.

The plenary meeting will focus on four aspects:

First: presentation of recent pilot and technical developments across Work Packages;
Second: discussion of ongoing implementation activities and next technical steps;
Third: alignment among partners on upcoming activities and deliverables, and
Finally: strengthening collaboration and coordination within the consortium.

Some recent developments

Construction and Demolition Waste (CDW) flows valorisation and digitalisation

In this task, the project is developing a methodology for the CDW separation and sorting systems. The task will evaluate three district levels: (1) at each construction site where CDW is primarily disposed of, (2) at a regional level that consists of two or more urban core areas, and (3) at the city/urban level of the pilots’ countries. This methodology will promote a circular economy and sustainable waste management practices.

In this regard, the initial design of the MFA (material flow analysis) tool has been completed, while alignment with the development team is ongoing and implementation activities have already been initiated. Further, continuous alignment between technical development and UI/UX design activities is ongoing to ensure a user-friendly and functional interface.

To highlight the progress in this task, a conference paper on the design of the MFA tool for Construction and Demolition Wood Waste is ready for submission to the KOS 2026 – 13th International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management (24–27 June 2026, Kos, Greece).

Integrated Circular Wood Upcycling Platform

Do you know that our project is working to develop a single integrated circular wood upcycling platform?

Yes, this platform aims to embed all the three tools, including the Digital Product Passport (DPP), Supply Chain Optimisation (SCO) toolkit, and Material Volume Estimation tool, into a common multifunctional and interoperable Integrated Circular Wood Upcycling platform for the complete monitoring, tracking and tracing of materials and products through dynamically updated digital product passport in the whole value chains by the end-users.

While the work is still ongoing on this integrated platform, you can take a look at our DPP tool and our idea behind it.

We released the walkthrough video of navigating the DPP. Watch it below:

At the moment, the team is working on the deployment and testing activities for the “Woody” chatbot that will answer questions regarding data enclosed in database for better accessibility.

The next phase will involve integrating the Digital product passport into the central platform along with the supply chain optimisation toolkit, material volume estimation tool and Life cycle assesment tool (LCA, S-LCA and LCCA).

Skills Development, and Standardisation, Policy & Certification

In spring 2025, VTT conducted a horizon scanning survey in spring 2025 on the importance of skills in supporting circular transitions. “New occupational roles are emerging – from bio-based material experts to digital traceability managers – yet skills gaps risk slowing adoption,” said Jorge Martins said during the launch of the survey. To address this, VTT conducted a horizon scanning survey in spring 2025, engaging 380 experts from over 20 countries. The team mapped more than 4,000 signals across social, technological, economic, environmental, political, and values-related drivers of change.

The findings reveal a complex transformation landscape. Environmental drivers such as climate change and resource scarcity are emerging as dominant forces pushing industry to rethink material flows. At the same time, economic and regulatory barriers – from fragmented markets to inconsistent policies and limited investment – are holding back circular solutions from scaling.

Meanwhile, VTT continues to analyse the signals collected through the horizon scanning survey, including social, technological, environmental, economic, political, and values-related signals. As part of this ongoing exercise, ISWA will be organising a W2W webinar on “People and Skills” where VTT’s contribution is expected on the “Social aspirations and values shaping future skills for circular wood”. The webinar is tentatively scheduled for July this year!

More details will be announced soon on LinkedIn.

In addition to VTT’s work on Skills Development, POLIMI prepared an explainer video on their ongoing work on Skills Development. This short video below will guide you through the skills section of the platform, where you can explore ten emerging roles in circular wood solutions and access a curated list of relevant training opportunities. It is designed to help you easily navigate the content and find the learning pathways that match your interests.

Events in upcoming weeks and months (EU Green Week in June, others)

Wood2Wood project joined a cluster of Horizon Europe projects called RECAP and is going to participate at the EU Green Week on June 3 in Brussels.

The workshop will explore how AI, robotics, and Digital Twins are driving circular innovation across aerospace composites, industrial waste, critical raw materials, and wood waste.

The workshop is titled “From End-of-Life to Lease-of-Life: Circularity in Action”
📅 3 June 2026 | 10:00 – 12:30 CET
📍 NTNU Brussels, Rue Guimard 9, Brussels
💻 Hybrid participation available

In the coming months, we will turn up at Ecomondo, and ISWA World Congress as we always do.

Meanwhile, we will write a follow up blog after the plenary meeting with fresh updates from the 3 Use Cases in our project.

Stay tuned!