ECOtwins Second Annual Meeting
26/07/2024
The UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change at ESCI-UPF participated in the second annual meeting of the ECOtwins project, held at the University of Copenhagen on July 18th and 19th.
In the frame of the EUCLIDES Network, consisting of 4 European Universities: the University of Girona, the University of Antwerp, KU Leuven, and Hochschule Merseburg, an annual training programme called International Weeks is organized on different topics. This year the title of the programme is Circularity of Polymers, the host is the University of Girona, and they offered unique training opportunities for 21 graduate and post-graduate students from the Network.
The training provided an inside into the complexity of plastics usage from different aspects, while at the same time enabling them to find new approaches and come to solutions for plastics pollution so urgently needed in Europe.
UNESCO Chair, represented by Prof. Pere Fullana and doctoral candidate Ilija Sazdovski, presented the sustainability aspects and environmental impacts of plastics usage and recycling in different systems. Prof. Fullana presented the tools for assessing the sustainability of plastics with a focus on Life Cycle and Social Assessment. Ilija Sazdovski focused the lecture on the difference between bio-based and fossil-based polymers and changes in their qualitative properties in multiple recycling cycles.
26/07/2024
The UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change at ESCI-UPF participated in the second annual meeting of the ECOtwins project, held at the University of Copenhagen on July 18th and 19th.
13/06/2024
Our researchers, Pere Fullana-i-Palmer and Ilija Sazdovski, collaborated with Harrison Tetteh, Rita Puig, and Mercè Balcells from the University of Lleida, and María Margallo and Ruben Aldaco from the University of Cantabria published a scientific research paper emphasizing the importance of extension of the shelf-life of products in Life Cycle Assessment.
15/05/2024
Cristina Campos, researcher of the UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change at ESCI-UPF, has been in Seville from 5th to 9th May as a speaker at the SETAC Europe Annual Meeting. In this article, she comments on the preliminary results of the poster and the CICEP research project, as well as her experience at the conference.
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