Dear SusChem Stakeholders, Register now to the SusChem Stakeholder event 2023: “Advanced Materials & Safe and Sustainable-by-Design Framework: Lighthouse matters for the future of European Research and Innovation”, on 21 February 2023, at Le Plaza Hotel, in Brussels. This is a face-to-face event with the goal to bring together representatives from the chemical industry, academia, research technology organisations (RTOs), Small and… Read More »
Major EU initiative launched to accelerate the transition to safe and sustainable materials, products and processes To ensure that materials are sustainable for humans and the environment, to increase recycling and use resources in a more efficient way, efforts are required from an early stage of design and manufacturing. Thus, the EC has launched a major initiative, IRISS,… Read More »
The first on-site workshop for RENESENG II took place in Toulouse, France on the 15th of June, 2022, as a special session in ESCAPE32 Conference. Partners had the opportunity to meet and exchange valuable knowledge and know how presenting their work on morning sessions in parallel to ESCAPE32 Conference. “Modelling of unconventional substrates: the case of HTL” Prof… Read More »
Professor A. Kokosis was elected Visiting Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering of the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. In the context of his new role, he will be able to supervise doctoral dissertations, postgraduate and diploma theses, some of which provide funding.
SusChem Greece’s first Brokerage Event was held on 15th October in Athens, with encouraging participation by industry. The event started off with introductions by Prof. Kokossis (NTUA) and priming presentations by Drs Stelios Bikos (NTUA) and Christos Michalopoulos (NTUA) on the history, deeds and plans of SusChem Greece, the Horizon2020 framework programme for funded Research and Innovation and… Read More »
The first Thematic Workshop οf Monday 29th – Tuesday 30th of January 2018 on Βio-products with packaging, coating, paint, varnish and adhesives applications has been cancelled. New dates will be announced soon. SusChem GR is seeking to discover the wants and the needs of the Greek industry (“Greek priorities”) with respect to research and development, so SusChem GR… Read More »
We are really excited to announce that during the 10th World Congress of Chemical Engineering held in Barcelona (Spain) from 1st to 5th October, 2017, the lecture titled: “Use of decision trees in life cycle impact assessment of bio – based processes at early design stages” of Prof Stavros Papadokonstantakis (Chalmers University), Mrs Paraskevi Karka and Prof Antonios… Read More »
David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future empowers faculty to think outside of their departments and across disciplines when it comes to tackling the world’s greatest challenge—creating a vital and resilient future for the global community. By providing start-up funding for cross-college collaborations, emergency research, and partnerships with non-profits, government, and industry, the Atkinson Center supports the… Read More »
SusChem Greece participated for the second time since its birth in the annual Stakeholder Event of the European Technological Platform SusChem, in Brussels, on 8th June. SusChem Greece was represented in the event by Professor Kokossis, whose IPSEN unit at the National Technical University of Athens hosts the national platform and runs its secretariat. SusChem Annual Stakeholder Events… Read More »
IPSEN continues its tradition of supporting conferences organised by the Hellenic Chemical Engineers’ Association, where chemical engineering research work is mainly showcased annually, which has been carried out in Greek research and technology organisations or by Greek chemical engineers abroad. This year, IPSEN participated with four oral presentations: The first presentation, delivered by Aikaterini Mountraki and… Read More »
The 4th Executive Board Meeting and the 2nd General Assembly Meeting RESYNTEX took place in Baveno, Italy on the 16th and 17th of May 2017 respectively. There has been an Introduction to the Review Report by IOS and an extended discussion on the Work Status & Feedback on Review Report Recommendations. Two technical workshops where dedicated to the… Read More »
The Process Systems Engineering world was saddened to hear of Professor Chris Floudas’s sudden passing last summer. As is customary in such circumstances, his academic family gathered at his long-time place of work, Princeton USA, on May 6th, 2017 to honour the man, researcher and teacher. Professor Floudas was a world-renowned authority in mathematical modelling and optimisation of… Read More »
The BIOPEN Kick off meeting took place in Rome on the 4th and 5th of May 2017. There, the BIOPEN internal portal and Consortium Agreement was discussed and there was a brief introduction of the project consortium. Also the BBI JU was discussed and there was also a brief introduction of the BIOPEN project. Introduction, upcoming actions and… Read More »
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 »
The 36M meeting of the D-Factory project was held in Athens (Greece) from 23rd to 25th November 2016. The meeting was hosted by NTUA. A total of 29 representatives from partner institutions attended the meeting.