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.
This year’s workshop theme was “Driving the Circular Transition in the EU: Recovering Value from Secondary Raw Materials” and the objective was to drive progress towards a circular economy by keeping materials in circulation for as long as possible to reduce European dependence on virgin resources and build resilience to de-risk its supply chain in the face of global supply chain uncertainties.
“Digital Product Passport & Traceability: Enabling Sustainability through Effective Policy” will take place on 27 November, 2025 at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Place du Congrès 1, 1000 Brussels, as well as online.
The workshop led by ReBoat Project will also feature other Horizon Europe initiatives, such as THESEUS, DeremCo, YouRban, SUM4Re, ICONIC Project, and STORCITO Project and showcase innovative circular solution across islands, cities and industrial systems.
Dimitrios Karamouslis from CERTH spoke on the contribution of Digital Product Passport’s (DPP) towards improving Data Management and interoperability in wood materials.
This CEPS analysis paper explores the challenges and opportunities for advancing waste wood valorisation and the circular economy using DPPs.
From metallurgy to food, waste, water, and wood—each of these projects brought to the forefront the transformational power of AI and Robotics to solve real industrial challenges.
Recently, one of our consortium partners in the project, CIGIP-UPV, presented their contributions in the Wood2Wood project at ICE/IEEE ITMC held in Valencia, Spain. Javier Cuartas, Raul Poler and José Antonio Comesaña Benavides presented two conference papers at ICE 2025 on “𝑶𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒛𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑨𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑾𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒍𝒚 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕”. ➡️𝐎𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐖𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭:
One of the main conclusions of the poster was this: A cascade valorisation approach combining Microwave-assisted Hydrothermal Carbonisation (MW-HTC) and gasification is viable for treating moist wood-industry residues for obtaining a H2 and CO2 rich syngas.
