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🌍💡 Innovating Sustainability: Introducing Ecolife Bottles 💡🌍 As part of our Entrepreneurial Development Studies (EDS) assignment given to us this semester at Covenant University, my team and I from the Chemical Engineering Department embarked on a mission to solve a critical global challenge—plastic waste. The result? Ecolife Bottles: a groundbreaking initiative that transforms biodegradable waste into sustainable plastic bottles using advanced biotechnology. This project reflects our commitment to driving sustainable development while applying innovative chemical engineering principles to real-world problems. Our aim is to reduce plastic pollution, promote a circular economy, and inspire others to think creatively about how we can turn waste into wealth. I am deeply grateful to Covenant University, the Covenant University Center for Entrepreneurial Development Studies (CEDS) for such a platform to bring our idea to fruition, and my incredible lecturers, Oluwakemi Onayemi (PhD) and Mrs.Deborah Aka, for their invaluable guidance and support throughout this journey. Your mentorship has been instrumental in shaping this vision into reality. Together, we are proving that innovation and sustainability go hand in hand. Let's continue to challenge the status quo and build a greener, more sustainable future! 🌱✨ #Sustainability #ChemicalEngineering #Innovation #EcolifeBottles #Entrepreneurship #Biotechnology #CovenantUniversity #CEDS

Our recent biotech conferences have highlighted a significant challenge: low attendance in sessions focused on white biotechnology. While red biotech continues to draw significant interest, white biotech deserves more attention for its groundbreaking potential. White biotech isn’t just advanced science; it’s a game-changer for making the world greener and cleaner. Imagine using biology to create eco-friendly products, reduce waste, and lower our carbon footprint. This field offers incredible solutions for building a sustainable future, and it's the future we should all be excited about! Here are a few rockstar companies doing fantastic things in white biotech for a better world: · Electrochaea - Innovating in the production of renewable natural gas through biological methanation. · Phaeosynt - Harnessing the power of algae to produce sustainable bioproducts. · rezemo - Developing sustainable wood products through advanced biotechnological processes. · HeiQ AeoniQ™ - Creating eco-friendly and sustainable textile fibers. These companies are not just innovating; they’re making sustainability achievable. The potential of white biotech to shape a better, greener future is immense. It’s time to shift focus and get excited about these amazing innovations. Together, we can make a real difference. Join in exploring the fascinating world of white biotechnology and embrace the journey towards a more sustainable planet!

#Master #NabiTec ♻️🔧🥼✅ Check out this new Master‘s Programme which is completely #customizable to let you pursue your dream. What I can say from my personal experience is that Professor Andrea Kruse and her team will support you with any idea 💡 you come up with. 🫵 What is your idea? Which sustainable solution would you like to work on? We want to hear all about it 🧑💻👩💻📧👍 #bioeconomy #technology #foodfirst #solution

🌟 Introducing yet another member of our consortium, EIT RawMaterials EIT RawMaterials is an Innovation Community within the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. 🌍 EIT RM is a key European actor established in 2015 to advance Europe’s transition into a sustainable economy. Its overarching mandate is to support efforts to secure the supply of critical raw materials to the European industry by driving innovation along the raw materials value chain. EIT RM builds on the world’s largest network of partners in raw materials and advanced materials, providing a collaborative environment for disruptive and breakthrough innovations by connecting more than 300 partners from industry, academia, research, and investment. Crucially, EIT RM invests in the future of the raw materials sector through a range of initiatives. These span from educating school students to providing higher qualifications for industry professionals, demonstrating their commitment to fostering the next generation of innovators in this vital sector.👩🎓 In the context of MAGELLAN Project EU, EIT RM brings a comprehensive network of experts spanning the entire value chain of raw materials. Their support extends to identifying economic and non-technological barriers, fostering a collaborative environment in #PermanentMagnet #recycling by clustering #innovation projects from industry, academia, and research. Moreover, their regional knowledge of the #RawMaterials ecosystem further enhances their contribution to the project. 🧲 ♻ By promoting efficient recycling practices and supporting the development of a #sustainable raw materials value chain, EIT RM helps to secure the continent's transition to a sustainable economy and reinforces its leadership in the global market for #GreenTechnologies. 🌱 Learn more about EIT RawMaterials: https://lnkd.in/dQhJjss

During the last month I've proudly followed the course "Life Cycle Assessment: Fundamentals and Application" that helped me to enter in sustainability topic from a technical and objective perspective. The course was organized by the Sustainability Group of Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials (AMIBM) and provided an introduction to #LCA steps and concepts as well as #casestudies elaboration and #results interpretation. Hope it will be the starting point for further opportunities! Thank you to experts and professors who guided the learning! #Packaging #Sustainability #phd #course #learning

🚀 New Publication Alert! 🌱 I'm excited to share our latest research published in Sustainable Production and Consumption of Elsevier! Our paper "Enablers for Circular Ecosystem Transformation: A Multi-Case Study of Brazilian Circular Ecosystems" dives into the critical enablers for emerging circular ecosystems. Our framework identifies four categories of enablers: affiliation, interdependence, alignment, and ecosystem engineering. Each set provides unique theoretical and empirical insights into how to facilitate circular ecosystem transformation. ♻️ 🔍 In this study, we delved into 7 key firms actively engaged in circular ecosystem transformation from 2008 to 2023. This extensive field research was a collective effort with an incredible team:  Leonardo Augusto de Vasconcelos Gomes, Aline Homrich, PhD, Ana Facin, Lucas Emmanuel Nascimento Silva, Danika Andrea Castillo Ospina, Adriana Hofmann Trevisan, Aldo Ometto, and Janaina Mascarenhas. 🌐 Our findings open up new pathways for exploring enablers that can facilitate multidirectional value alignment— a complex but vital challenge in advancing circular configurations. Check out the full article here: https://lnkd.in/ehqRBevU #CircularEconomy #CircularEcosustem #Sustainability #EcosystemTransformation #Research #AcademicPublishing #USP Universidade de São PauloEngenharia de Produção - Poli-USP Faculdade de Economia, Administração, Contabilidade e Atuária da Universidade de São Paulo

⭐ YEAIS winner spotlight! ⭐ Alexandra Roe, winner of the Young Engineers Awards for Innovation and Sustainability Undergraduate category for her project ‘Enhancing the Understanding of Biochar to Allow the Incorporation into Tufted Carpet Tiles for a Reduction in the Carbon Footprint’. Speaking about her award win and motivation for submitting an entry, she said: "Winning this award is absolutely amazing. I can't stop smiling; I'm so proud of what I have achieved. For me, sustainability is why I study engineering. If we carry on the way we are, we will reach a point of no return, in terms of how we live. And that's not just us as humans - it's linked to animals, habitats, and landscapes. "Going forward, I want to continue to help improve sustainability and processes, with my goal of either beginning a role within a company or to complete a PhD in industry to ensure that my work gets used and makes an impact." Read more about last week's awards ceremony: https://lnkd.in/ecpne8NB #IChemE #YoungEngineersAwardsForSustainabilityAndInnovation #ChemicalEngineers #ChemicalEngineering #Sustainability #UNSDG #YEAIS

🔥 HOT NEWS for the Circular Bioeconomy Community! 🔥 CBE JU has just published its Annual Work Programme for 2025, revealing exciting opportunities to drive innovation and sustainability in Europe's circular bio-based industries. 🌱🌍 💡 €165 million will be allocated across 13 groundbreaking topics to advance competitive circular bioeconomy initiatives. Highlights: 🛠️ Innovation Actions – Flagship (IA-flagship): €18M for urban-industrial symbiosis for bio-waste valorisation. €20M for cost-effective, sustainable platform chemicals. €18M for circular-by-design fibre-based packaging. €18M for retrofitting (bio)refinery plants. 🔬 Innovation Actions (IA): €14M for sustainable macroalgae systems. €13.5M for Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) bio-based solutions for textiles. €14M to scale nutritional proteins from alternative sources. 🌳 Research and Innovation Actions (RIA): €7M for untapped forest biomass valorisation. €6M for biodegradable systems to reduce microplastics in soil. €6M for alternative biomanufacturing of natural and synthetic rubber. 🎓 Coordination and Support Actions (CSA): €1M to develop and deploy new curricula for bio-based systems. This call for project proposals represents a major leap toward achieving the EU's bioeconomy and circularity goals. 🚀 📅 Stay tuned: The call is set to open in 2025! Don’t miss your chance to contribute to a more sustainable, bio-based future. 🔗 For more details, check out the full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/d3dvHt3A Let’s shape the future of the bioeconomy together! 💪🌿 Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC) The National Centre for Research and Development Krajowy Punkt Kontaktowy Programów Badawczych UE European Commission

📣Calling All #Chemical, #Construction, #Textile and #Plastics Experts! Are you an expert from research, industry, policy or civil society, with knowledge and experiences in one of the abovementioned sectors? Then, you shouldn’t miss the “Pathway to DESIGN the circular bio-based transition” closing event, organised by SUSTRACK! ❓Why Attend?❓ This conference is designed to present: 🔍 the main takeaways from the “Pathway to DESIGN the circular bio-based transition” series of workshops, which involved more than 175 stakeholders, presenting 20 case studies, and resulted in the mapping of the most relevant challenges, good practices and recommendations along policy, environmental, social and economic dimensions for the transition to a circular bio-based economy; 🔬 SUSTRACK methodologies and tools to monitor the transition to circular bio-based economy; 🖥️ the SUSTRACK dynamic scenario-based tool (GEM model) to inform decision making towards sustainability for industries and policy development;   🏛️SUSTRACK contributions to EU policy in Bioeconomy.  Still indecisive? The conference will also collect your perspective through interactive sessions to shape and fine-tune SUSTRACK methodologies and tools, better responding to industry and policy needs: make your voice heard to DESIGN your journey towards sustainable transition. Let's DESIGN a #sustainable future together: Save the Date! 📅 25th of September 2024 ⌚ 10:00 – 12:00 CEST 💻 Online Interested? Save the date to join us and keep following SUSTRACK social media: registration will open in September! Further info and agenda 👉 https://lnkd.in/dmbCqk7A Università degli Studi di Roma UnitelmaSapienza Wageningen University & Research KnowlEdge Srl PEDAL Consulting DBFZ Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum gemeinnützige GmbH Universiteit Gent Woodlab Gent TECNALIA Research & Innovation TECNALIA Circular Economy FVA New Media Research CERCIS CEntre For Research on Circular Economy Innovation and SMEs Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung CIRCE - Centro Tecnológico

🌱 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 for advancing Europe’s circular bio-based economy just announced today! 🌍💡 The Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) has opened its 2024 call for project proposals, dedicating a total of €213 million to drive competitive circular bio-based industries across Europe. Find out more on the link: https://lnkd.in/dhXchGHv 🗓️ Deadline: September 18, 2024, 17:00 Brussels time This call encompasses 18 funding topics aligned with the objectives of CBE JU, including accelerating innovation, market deployment of bio-based solutions, and ensuring environmental performance. Three types of projects will be funded: • Innovation Actions (IAs) to scale up activities from prototype to product validation and market replication. • Research and Innovation Actions (RIAs) to establish new knowledge or explore the feasibility of new or improved technology. • Coordination and Support Actions (CSAs) to structure stakeholder communities and support technological visions. 𝗩𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗶𝗼-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. The proposal submission requirements are detailed in the call documents published on each topic page. Funding for this call comes from Horizon Europe, the EU’s research and innovation funding program, and proposals can be submitted electronically through the respective topic page. After the call closure, proposals will undergo evaluation, and successful projects will be known by early February 2025 at the latest. For more information, visit the call page, consult the CBE JU Annual Work Programme 2024, and check out the FAQ for applicants. Don't miss this opportunity to drive innovation and contribute to a sustainable future! Apply now and be a part of Europe’s circular bio-based economy revolution. #CircularEconomy #BioBased #Innovation #FundingOpportunity #GREETCE