We are delighted to announce that our project has joined forces with NoAW (another H2020 project) to host a conference in Brussels on the 17th October this year.  The Agri-Food Waste Day Conference will bring together innovators, educators, policy makers, public and private industries to discuss circular economy challenges and activities in the agri-food sectors. The…

On Monday 12th of June 2017, the AGROCYCLE project was presented by EUBIA during the EUBCE poster presentation session. The presentation was focused on explaining the scope of the project in providing sustainable agricultural waste valorisation pathways, contributing to the EU target of reducing food waste by 50% by 2030.  Delegates from scientific research, industry and…

On the 17th May 2017, ACCIÓ held an information session on the circular economy at their headquarters in Barcelona. The event brought together several companies that are moving towards circular business models. The session aimed to publicise business opportunities and innovation in circular economy; as well as the economic, social and environmental benefits it represents. AXEB…

CREA hosted an Open Day – Agro-ecology and innovation of agricultural management in organic farming. Experiences from Agrocambio projects, Soilveg and AgroCycle – in Metaponto on the 11th May 2017.  The aim of the day was to illustrate innovative organic horticultural models from three research projects that are currently underway:  AGROCAMBIO (Systems and agronomic techniques for adaptation to…

The Spanish Institute of Women (Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality) has implemented the DIANA Programme to promote the interest of girls in science and technology. Within this programme, ITACyL researchers were invited to participate in an event directed to 9-year old boys and girls at the public school CEIP Blanco de Cela (Astorga, Spain). During…

Two workshops were held to bring together key players to identify important resources, constraints and opportunities to developing novel value chains and creating sustainable business models, to feed into subsequent activities in WP8 and elsewhere in the project. The first workshop named “Sustainable municipal and agricultural waste management and the possibility of applying advanced technologies…

Tom Oldfield of UCD attended a workshop in Thurles, Ireland hosted by the EU project, AgriForValor (http://www.agriforvalor.eu/). The focus of the workshop was torrefaction and pyrolysis, and brought together over 80 attendees, including, academia, farmers, foresters, industry and policy makers from across Ireland. Three presenters shared their experience in developing their novel waste valorisation technologies,…

This document provides AgroCycle Protocol Rules (APR) for an assessment framework for the sustainability performance of agri-food waste and by-product valorization (both processes and products are covered by this protocol). This APR is suitable for application of life cycle assessment (LCA) methods to evaluate both the technology (e.g. anaerobic digestion, fermentation) and valorized product (e.g.…

On Nov. 22, 2016, CAU hosted the AgroCycle China Partners meeting. Project Coordinator Prof. Shane Ward, the CAU and NJTECH teams attended the meeting. Prof. Jia Honghua from NJTECH and Prof. Han Lujia from CAU presented their progress to date in AgroCycle.

AgroCycle’s Professor Shane Ward was invited to speak at the Disruptive Innovation Festival (DIF) this year. The DIF is an online, open access event which takes place over a three-week period around the world that invites thought-leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators, businesses, makers and learners to explore the question “The economy is changing – what do I need to know, experience and do?”.…