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Young Happy Hour – a way to help young researchers to develop presentational skills
We heard many times that ‘Young people are the future!’. So, truly believing in this motto, we have
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New Trends In Packaging
The strongest trends in the packaging industry all revolve around a circular economy. Why? Globally, it’s driven by different governmental regulation and consumer perception regarding packaging. World tends to close the door to waste, environmental groups are lobbying to stop plastic pollution in the
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How To Fight Microplastics?
It is evident that around the globe humanity struggles with enormous amounts of plastic waste; 300 million tonnes dispose every year, 10 million tonnes of which end up in our oceans. But it is not what we can see that should concern
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Biorefineries: A step towards sustainable future
We live in a time when the world is overwhelmed with concerns such as climate change, population increase, rising global energy demand, and the potential scarcity of fossil resources. These difficulties compel us to look for ways to replace petroleum-
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Kargl visit Thessaloniki
Rupert Kargl, STSM and ITC coordinator of CA18220 was visiting the MC members´ Prof Konstantinos TRIANTAFYLLIDIS and Prof Dimitrios BIKIARIS labs of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece on 8th of July 2022. Thank you for the warm welcome and the
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Training School 2021
A training school on ‘Polymer Characterization’ has been organised at University Côte d’Azur in Nice (14-17 June 2021. About 25 participants have attended in person and more than 75 were on-line (zoom). Top lecturers from different horizons and with diverse
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A great achievement of FUR4Sustain WG3: Developing future visions for bio-plastics substituting PET – A backcasting approach.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352550922000537?via%3Dihub Congratulations to the authors: Verena Haas; Julia Wenger; Lea Ranacher; Nathanaël Guigo; Andreia F. Sousa and Tobias Stern.
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FUR4Sustain virtual meeting at the time of COVID-19 pandemic: extraordinary historic moment needs extraordinary ideas and action plans!
Fur4sustain cost action project has found itself acting in a completely extraordinary and unexpected scenario, Covid-19 pandemic, which blocked the whole planet. In this new situation in which we all found ourselves unwillingly, extraordinary proposals are needed to deal with this
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Open call for STSMs
We are pleased to announce that the STSMs call is now open until 20 July, to all subject fields of FUR4Sustain, from WG1 to WG3 domains. Visit https://fur4sustain.eu/networking/stsms/ for more information.
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COST COVID-19 briefing: Together we are stronger
COST is much more than an organisation that implements a funding programme; we are a community of over 45,000 people connected by a desire to advance research and innovation. As the coronavirus situation rapidly evolves, there is now more need
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FUR4Sustain meet at the web 11 March 2020
The first MC web meeting was hold on the last 11 th March in a computer near you! An overview of the scientific topics addressed in FUR4Sustain COST Action was brilliantly overviewed by Prof. Santiago V. Luis, Prof. Katja Loos, Prof. Tobias