Find here all the projects and workshops by the Bioeconomy in Transition Research Group
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PEACE (2023-2025)
PEACE, Protecting the Environment: Advances in Circular Economy, is a project financed by the Ministry of University and Research under the PRIN initiative; the European Union finances this research program through the Next Generation EU fund. The project started in October 2023 and has a duration of two years.The overarching objective of PEACE is to delineate pathways and propose policies that support the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals through a circular economy approach.
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SUSTRACK (2022 2025)
SUSTRACK is a three-year project aimed at supporting policymakers in their efforts to develop sustainable pathways to replace fossil and carbon-intensive systems (at the EU and regional scale), contributing to achieving the European Green Deal's objectives.
This will be done by: identifying environmental, economic and social limits of a linear carbon-intensive and fossil-based economy; improving existing assessment methodologies; assessing the environmental, social and economic impacts of the EU's current linear fossil-based economy; comparing multiple transitionscenarios focusing on the most carbon-intensive sectors; identifying priorities according to scenarios analysed in the project and develop guidelines and policy recommendations.
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BioReCer (2022-2025)
BIORECER is a three-year multidisciplinary collaborative project, which aims to ensure the environmental performance and traceability of the biological feedstock used by the bio-based industries, deploying guidelines to strengthen the current certification schemes.
Specifically, BIORECER will assess the impact of current and adapted certification schemes on consumers and bio-based industries stakeholders’ WTP along with industries and consumers’ acceptance of new bio-value chains from biological feedstocks, including residual feedstock and waste.
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STAR4BBS (2022-2025)
STAR4BBS is Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) funded as part of the Horizon Europe program. It is a three-year multidisciplinary collaborative project involving seven partners, three associated partners and a linked third party. The overall objective of STAR4BBS is to maximize the potential of sustainability certification systems and labels, to support a successful transition to a sustainable bioeconomy.
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Circular Bricks (2022-2024)
Circular Bricks is the new Erasmus+ project for improving agrifood VET institutes’ teachers’ skills and competencies.
The consortium, coordinated by UnitelmaSapienza, is composed of 7 partners: 3 technical partners from Italy and Spain, that will bring to the project an in-depth knowledge on circular bioeconomy related topics; and 4 VET institutes (from Italy, Spain, Greece and Romania) operating in the agri-food sector.
The project will develop innovative pedagogical material on circular bioeconomy related topics for VET teachers, keeping a train-the-trainer approach. Specifically, involved teachers will be provided with a thorough and practical approach to circular bioeconomy principles and their implementation in the agri-food sector, as well as with efficient tools for holding effective design thinking sessions and preparing learners to become true agents of change. At the end of the project, both teachers and students will have acquired new green skills and competencies, thus adding “circular bricks” to their know-how.
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LIFE EBP (2020-2024)
LIFE EBP (Ecofriendly multipurpose Biobased Products from municipal biowaste) addresses environmental problems in municipal biowaste (MBW) management, agriculture and chemical industry by proving feasible production and use of new biobased products (BPs) obtained from MBW.
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Now Let’s go (2022-2024)
Now Let’s Go is a project co-funded by the Italian Ministry for Green Transition in the frame of the Call for Proposals for research projects “aimed at the development of technologies for the prevention, recovery, recycling and treatment of waste not included in the categories already served by the supply chain consortia, the eco-design of products and the proper management of related waste”.
The project goal is to carry out industrial research and experimental development activities aimed at the reuse of processing waste in the production of leather accessories for the creation of new materials with high added value in terms of quality, reliability and technical performance, thus reducing the amount of waste from the leather products industry.
The project will see, on the one hand, the actual industrial development of new materials and, on the other the analysis of their sustainability from both an environmental and socio-economic point of view. Unitelma Sapienza, in collaboration with SSIP (the Italian Experimental Station for the Leather and Tanning Materials Industry), will take part in this latter part of the project. In particular, it will verify the degree of sustainability of the new materials and assess their potential market uptake as well as the degree of their acceptance by consumers.
Project partners are:
- Cartiera
- Unitelma Sapienza
- SSIP (Stazione sperimentale per l’industria delle pelli)
- Next Technology tecnotessile (NTT)
- Technoplants
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BioTOP
BioTOP is a research project coordinated by the University of Bremen as beneficiary of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
BioTOP analyzes the status quo of the sustainability transformation in terms of biotechnology, biomass and biomaterials at international, national as well as regional level. The analysis is conducted also through regional case studies to provide a detailed picture of the international integration of bio-based technologies.
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STAR-ProBio (2017-2020)
STAR-ProBio was a multi-actor collaborative Research and Innovation Action (RIA) coordinated by Unitelma Sapienza University and including 15 partners from 11 European countries. The project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement no. 727740.
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SNAPSHOT
UnitelmaSapienza has recently joined the SNAPSHOT project led by the National Research Council.
SNAPSHOT is coordinated by the Department of Earth System Sciences and Technologies for the Environment of the National Research Council (DSSTTA-CNR) and is funded by the EU BLUEMED Initiative (BLUEMED CSA - GA 727453).
The aim of the project is to contribute to the public debate on the effects of the lockdown phase due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on the coastal environment. The project will carry out an observation campaign involving scientists and citizens with the common aim of producing a series of sea-snapshots during and after lockdown, complying with the social distancing measures foreseen by law. In this frame, UnitelmaSapienza will: (i) collect socio-economic data and analyse them; and (ii) develop a simulation model, considering the socio-economic dimension in cluster areas in relation to environmental data and the spread of SRAS-CoV-2.