Projects
MediaFutures, Data-driven innovation hub for the media value chain KU Leuven
MediaFutures will set up a virtual, European data innovation hub, including funding, mentoring and support for entrepreneurial and creative projects to reshape the media value chain through responsible, innovative uses of data. We will:
• explore the critical factors that impact how people engage with bottom-up quality journalism, science education and digital citizenship;
• define a participatory, inclusive innovation programme, ...
BATMACHINE : Boosting Europe’s sustainable battery cell industrial manufacturing value chain by developing an optimised machinery with intelligent control processes to minimise costs, scrap and energy consumption Vrije Universiteit Brussel
by developing new battery cell manufacturing machinery. This is done whilst giving priority to minimising the energy energy for cells
production, enhancing plant efficiency rates and integrating intelligent control processes to reduce scrap. BATMACHINE will develop
and implement an optimised and ...
Sustainable techno-economic solutions for the agricultural value chain Ghent University
Continuing population and consumption growth are driving global food demand, with agricultural activity increasing to keep pace. Europe has a major agricultural waste problem, generating some 700 million tonnes of waste annually. There is an urgent need and huge opportunity to address the efficient use of agricultural wastes, co-products and by-products (AWCB) towards delivering sustainable value chains in the farming and processing sectors. ...
Boosting co-creation and networking among the lighting design value chain to empower the European creative sector KU Leuven
Can You Imagine a World without Light? It’s easy to take light for granted. After all, it surrounds us. But why is light such an important factor in our lives? First of all, light makes our modern life possible. Before artificial light, our productivity was limited by the number of
daylight hours. Lighting is crucial for all personal, professional, cultural and social aspects of our lives. To put it simply: lighting matters.The revival ...
Spectacular Circular: complex material flows in the value chain (POSteK) KU Leuven
Europe aims to recycle more than half of the plastic waste produced by 2030. Although single-material plastic products are preferred to ensure a high-quality recycling flow, the market demand for multi-material products remains high due to their superior product properties, such as a longer lifespan.
The POSteK project investigates methods to recycle complex plastic flows consisting of multiple plastics, metal parts or fiber-filled ...
Diversification trough Rotation, Intercropping, Multiple Cropping, Promoted by Actors and Value Chains towards Sustainability Inagro vzw
CO-creating sustainable and competitive FRuits and vEgetableS’ value cHains in Europe Ghent University
Starting from current best practices and key success factors observed and analysed in innovative value chains and the state of the art in technological and non-technological approaches, CO-FRESH proposes to develop techniques, tools and insights for the re-design of agri-food value chains. Through collaborative and systemic approaches, the tools and formats will be applied in 7 pilot cases representing diverse fruit and vegetables agri-food ...
Innovative technological, organisational and social solutions for FAIRer dairy and fruit and vegetable value CHAINs Ghent University
FAIRCHAIN addresses the growing need for a significant transformation of current food systems by developing competitive intermediate food chain alternatives adapted to small and mid-sized actors. FAIRCHAIN specifically aims to: -Foster the emergence of innovative intermediate food value chains that support the scaling-up of small and mid-sized actors facing unsustainable conventional dominant agri-food system. This requires to specific ...
Developing Intercropping for agrifood Value chains and Ecosystem Services delivery in Europe and Southern countries KU Leuven
IntercropValueES aims to exploit benefits of intercropping to design and manage productive, diversified, resilient, profitable, environmentally friendly cropping systems acceptable to farmers and actors in the agri-food chain. It will develop both a scientific research action for better understanding and modelling intimate intercrop functioning and a detailed analysis of lock-ins and levers at the value chain level to identify credible ...