The evaluation of the project entitled “Circular Packaging for Direct Food Contact Applications”, (Circular Food Pack)” coordinated by the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Institute has been completed.

The project, with a total budget of 5.3 million euros, received a score of 14/15. The project will explore the recycling of plastics from food packaging with new innovative technologies and polymer materials.

The EBEO will deal with the mapping of the potential market for recycled plastics, applying the Business Model canvas methodology, while it will proceed with a business model cost optimization and finally a feasibility study of the proposed solutions in existing or new markets that will be created.

The consortium includes, among others, NESTLE, SUEZ Group, DruckFarben Group, etc.

PhD Candidate George Siokas participated in the international scientific conference “4th SmartBlueCity Euro-Mediterranean Conference-Exhibition” which took part in hybrid form,  at the Divani Caravel Hotel in Athens, Greece. At the conference, the title of his presentation was “The Economic Impact of the Smart City on the Greek National Economy based on Input-Output Analysis”. The co-authors of the presentation are Dimitris Stamopoulos, Petros Dimas and the Associate Professor NTUA Angelos Tsakanikas. The presentation took place on Saturday, October 10, 2020, at 10:00, in Thematic Unit 7 entitled “Tools and Technologies for Informed Decision-Making”.

For the fifth year, the IDEON CYCLUS organized its annual conference on the general theme “Greece After”. The conference “Greece After V” was held on 11-12 October 2021, at the Benaki Museum amphitheatre, with the central theme of the question: From crisis to normality or crisis as normality?

The project entitled “Technoeconomic Evaluation of Waste Treatment Methods of an Olive Processing and Standardization Plant” was successfully completed by the Hellenic Research and Development Organization (EVEO). The research project concerned the technoeconomic valuation and evaluation of existing and new infrastructures to address environmental and operational problems faced by an olive processing and standardization plant. In particular, the project focused on the most appropriate, environmentally and economically, management of the by-products of the process carried out in the plant, as well as the waste generated both at the exit of the production/processing line and after the exit of the secondary treatment biological treatment.

In this light, a feasibility study was initially carried out, where a detailed analysis of the operational problem was carried out, taking into account the operational, economic and technical aspects of the project. At the same time, a cost-benefit analysis was prepared for the rational evaluation of the proposed investment, with the aim of identifying possible weaknesses at a techno-economic level and implementing the necessary technologies, in order to offset the business risk and ensure that the available resources will be invested as effectively as possible.

Finally, given that this is an environmentally friendly investment, the conditions for the success of this specific investment were highlighted, both in terms of conception and design, as well as in terms of implementation and operation, combining the reduction of its local environmental footprint with resource savings.

In the framework of the promotion of the 3rd cycle of the Invent ICT startup support program, an event will be held on Tuesday, February 11 at 15:00, at POS4work in Patras. The event includes a detailed presentation of the program and the submission method, while the challenges for connecting research with entrepreneurship will also be analyzed, in a relevant panel. The discussion will be attended by Prof. Yiannis Kalogirou from the National Technical University of Athens, Prof. Dimosthenis Polyzos, Deputy Rector of the University of Patras and Prof. Spyros Syrmakesis, from the University of Peloponnese.

The event is organized in collaboration with Mindspace Patras and POS4work, while the detailed program can be found here.