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Agri-Food Waste Day
On the 17th October, we also held our Agri-Food Waste Day conference which was a joint venture with H2020 Project NoAW. We were delighted that the European Commission were in a position to host the conference at their Madou Building in Brussels. It was an excellent day that facilitated the unique opportunity to discuss our two…
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Agriforvalor study visit to Hungary
Ciara Beausang (School of Biosystems and Food Engineering, University College Dublin) represented AgroCycle at the recent Agriforvalor Study visit to Hungary. Agriforvalor is a Horizon 2020 funded project which aims to enhance biomass valorisation by bringing together relevant practitioners from agriculture and forestry with research and academia to form multi-actor partnership networks. Agriforvalor has organised…
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Agri-Food Waste Day – 17th October 17, Brussels
We here at AgroCycle have joined forces with NoAW (another H2020 project) to host a conference in Brussels on the 17th October. 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 event will take the opportunity to teach…
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Where to meet our Researchers
Over the coming weeks and months, AgroCycle partners will be representing our project at the following events: Victoria Wood (AgroCycle & Harper Adams University) will be presenting at the RGC-IBG Annual International Conference 2017 in London on August 30th with her paper entitled “Business models for sustainability in food waste management in the food retail…
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What is the relevance of the Circular Economy to the Agri-Food Industry?
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…
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Agrocycle at EUBCE
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…
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AXEB representing AgroCycle at ACCIÓ Circular Economy Public Event
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…
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CREA Open Day on the 11th May 2017 in Metaponto, Matera, Italy.
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…
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ITACyL researchers take part in DIANA programme
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…
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Barriers and Opportunities to Valorising Agri-food wastes, co-products and by-products (AWCBs) Workshop
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…