08/10/2020

Luxembourg

Innovate together: Promote cross-border collaboration between companies and projects in the Greater Region

LIFE PlasPLUS project will take part in a webinar session: Recycling and Circular Economy that will be held on 8 October 2020 as part of a cross-border collaboration event in Luxembourg. The LIFE PlasPLUS presenation will showcase the project objective & methodology about recycling of high-quality secondary thermoplastic and critical raw materials coming from mixed WEEE and EoL vehicles. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session.

The full agenda for the Webinar Session: Recycling and circular economy can be found here:

Session 2: Recycling and circular economy

1. Introduction to European programmes

  • Green Deal 2020 Horizon Europe

Sanna Alaranta, Luxinnovation

2. Testimonial on a current cross regional project

  • Our experience with small-scale European funding

Valentin Pohu, Cairn Devices

  • Project LIFE PlasPLUS “Recycling of high-quality secondary thermoplastics and critical raw materials coming from mixed WEEE and EoL vehicles

Philippe Giaro, ULg-GeMMe

3. Call for partners

  • IT tools to support adoption of circular economy in companies and within their ecosystem

Christophe Ponsard, CETIC

  • A combined solution to provide green and sustainable energy from organic waste in rural areas of West Africa

Jimmy Roussel, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology

The webinar session is the second organized of a set of 3 planned sessions. Each webinar will feature information about funding opportunities, member testimonials, and project ideas.

  • Session 1: Advanced and sustainable materials by design
  • Session 2: Recycling/Circular Economy – Register here
  • Session 3: Digitalisation and human robot collaboration – Register here

Innovate together: Promote cross-border collaboration between companies and projects in the Greater Region is a joint event organized by the clusters Materalia (FR), MecaTech (BE), Skywin  (BE) and the Luxembourg Materials & Manufacturing Cluster by Luxinnovation (LU). They aim to promote technological collaborations between their members and boost the setting-up of R&D projects involving larges companies, SMEs and RTOs from our respective ecosystems in the Greater Region.