SURPASS EU-Project successfully launched
Wed, Jul 06
|Grenoble
WFO participates in an EU-Funded project named SURPASS along with a consortium of multiple parties as part of Horizon Europe, the EU Research and Innovation funding program which runs from 2022 to 2025.
Time and Location
Jul 06, 2022, 7:00 PM – Jul 07, 2022, 7:00 PM
Grenoble, Grenoble, France
About the event
On Wednesday and Thursday 6th and 7th of July, CEA, the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, based in France, hosted the kick-off meeting of SURPASS.
SURPASS, which stands for Safe-, sUstainable- and Recyclable-by design Polymeric systems. A guidance towardS next generation of plasticS, is a 42-month long EU-funded project, part of the Research and Innovation Program Horizon Europe 2021. It lasts from June 1st 2022 to November 30th 2025, and has a total budget of 4.98 million Euros.
As plastic waste is accumulating on the planet at an alarming rate, provoking air, soil and water pollution due to hazard substances and greenhouse gas emissions, the SURPASS project was born to lead the transition towards more safe, sustainable and recyclable by-design (SSRbD) polymeric materials and aims to target three specific sectors representing 70% of the European plastic demand: packaging, building and transport.
Last month, during the kick-off meeting, the…