Advanced recycling and upcycling technologies are already generating secondary material streams. But the real challenge is processing, trust, and scaling these outputs into usable industrial feedstock.
Four speakers from four different walks of life gathered together to discuss the future skills the current workforce needs by 2030 to be able to support the transition to a circular economy in Europe.
Holding the plenary in Epinal is special, especially as LERMAB and ENSTIB are key players in spotlighting the region’s wood science prowess.
The RECAP cluster of 5 Horizon Europe projects showed just how much is already being done —AI, Robotics and Digital Twins being applied across sectors to make circular processes real.
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.
The discussions emphasised that materials are strategic, and European member states need to efficiently and effectively recover secondary materials to reuse and recycle to enhance EU’s material sovereignty and competitiveness.
Wood2Wood project will be attending the two-day annual European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform (ECESP) conference in Brussels between April 22-23. This will be the second consecutive year of Wood2Wood’s participation. This year’s ECESP conference theme is “A competitive and fair circular Europe: The ambition at the heart of the single market”. The event will shape
RECAP is short form for “Rethinking End-of-life through Circularity and Advanced Processes”. The five Horizon Europe projects involved are CompSTLar, BIO4EEB, iBot4CRMs, ICARUS and Wood2Wood.
At least 25 academic and post-graduate students were present for the engagement and asked questions on the processes and chemistry behind the Use Case 2.
One major area of intervention in the bioeconomy strategy is to better utilise bio-based waste streams, emphasising cascade use, recycling and upcycling processes to extend material life cycles and reduce dependence on virgin resources.
