Category Archives: News

SusChem Greece attracts dozens to its Kickoff Event

SusChem Greece, the Greek National Technological Platform for Sustainable Chemistry whose Secretariat is operated by IPSEN, scored its first success last Friday 16th December in its Kickoff Event in central Athens. SusChem Greece Founding Members, most of which are associations of industry, professionals and consumers, were present en masse, together with individual company delegates.  Represented were also non-member… Read More »

IPSEN team participates at the AIChE meeting November 13-18, 2016

The AIChE Annual Meeting is the premier educational forum for chemical engineers interested in innovation and professional growth. Academic and industry experts will cover wide range of topics relevant to cutting-edge research, new technologies, and emerging growth areas in chemical engineering. IPSEN team will represent NTUA Chemical Engineering School with a reception organised on Tuesday, November 15, 2016;… Read More »

EURECHA 2017 Student Contest

This contest problem is open to Bachelor/Master/PhD level students. The participants have approximately three months to prepare and submit solutions to the problem (see below) no later than December the 31st 2016, 23:59 CET. Solutions can be prepared by individuals or by teams. The jury will select the best solution, based on technical excellence (i.e. cost effectiveness, energy… Read More »

IPSEN team at the “International Workshop on Process Intensification 2016”

The IPSEN team participated in the “International Workshop on Process Intensification 2016” (http://www.icheme.org/iwpi2016), which was organized by the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) in Manchester, UK. Participants from industry and academia contributed with research outcomes and challenges related with the development of clean and sustainable processes. The conference covered a wide spectrum of experimental and computational research specialized… Read More »

Researcher’s Night 2016

For another year, IPSEN team has successfully participated at the Researcher’s Night 2016 Event! The team had the chance to present the research work of the year we are leaving behind and meet not only researchers but also families, students who wish to pursue a career in the engineering world and business corespondents. The Researcher’s Night is a… Read More »

PhD Position opening in South France

A PhD position that involves several teams and will take place ASAP, successively in Toulouse (LGC unit) and Montpellier (IATE unit), both in the South of France. Title: Knowledge engineering for life cycle sustainability analysis. Topics: computer science are Semantic Web, Data source reliability, Uncertainty propagation, Query Answering explanation. The field of application is the design of a… Read More »

1st Call for STSM Applications – Closing at October 20th, 2016

COST Action CA15118 1st Call for STSM Applications COST Action CA15118 “FoodMC” promotes discussion and networking on the use of in-silico and mathematical models in food science and industry, at the European level. In this first call for Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSM), we offer to fund three missions, to be performed between COST Member Countries or Near Neighbor… Read More »

Eco-design, Agri-Bio-Industry Processes Event

IPSEN team is participating in the Eco-design, Agri-Bio-Industry Processes Event that will be held on 4th-5th February 2016 in Paris, France. This workshop aims at clarifying and discussing the methodological and cognitive scientific stakes, related to the eco-design of the agri-bio-industry processes. Relevant tools for the environmental analysis of processes will be overviewed. Strategies to eco-design processes will be discussed, including… Read More »

NTUA team in the Bioeconomy Investment Summit “Bioeconomy for Europe: using resources from land and sea for a post-petroleum economy”

The event focused on investment opportunities in the Bioeconomy that holds an enormous potential for growth and job creation and it will play a major role in the creation of Europe’s new smart and resource-efficient economy. The objective of the two-day Summit was to identify possible ways to mobilize private and public investment for the Bioeconomy, by notably ensuring… Read More »

Experienced Researcher Position at the RENESENG Marie Curie Project

EXPERIENCED RESEARCHER – MARIE CURIE Department of Chemical and Process Engineering Location: Guildford Salary: £42,373 Fixed Term Post Type: Full Time Closing Date: Sunday 20 December 2015 Reference: 080115 Salary will be at the fixed rate of £42373 per annum in addition to mobility allowance of up to £8506.33 (Depending on family circumstances). An Experienced Researcher is required… Read More »

NTUA team in Epic 2020 Meeting (24- 25/09/15) and WWG Business Forum (project workshop) in Wismar

The purpose of the visit to Wismar was to participate in a two part conference which was realised under the EPIC 2020 project. The first part of the conference was entitled: “Explore and utilize untapped bioenergy resource potential of ports and surrounding areas by industrial symbiosis” and was open to several key actors of the NWM area, the greater Region of Wismar. The… Read More »

NTUA presence in the 80th Thessaloniki’s International Fair

On Wednesday September the 9th 2015 Georgios Lignos participated in TIF in Thessaloniki,together with Athanassios Gentimis from IMIS Athena, the coordinator of the AI4B  project. TIF is the most famous annual exhibition in Greece. Our stand was under the surveillance of GSRT. Many people passed by, asking on ways to valorise biomass. An opportunity arose to present the AI4B project, and what does its platform offer:… Read More »

2015 Stakeholder event, Brussels

Professor Antonis Kokosis attended the 2015 Stakeholder event which took place on the 8th-9th June at the Sheraton Rogier Hotel in Brussels. Theme of the event was the PROPELLING SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY TO EXCITING NEW FRONTIERS Implementing the New Strategic Innovation and Research Agenda. At this event the latest news and activities from SusChem National Technology Platforms (NTPs) were presented. More than… Read More »