Project description
Turning plastic waste into valuable resources
Plastics are essential in various industries, but their widespread use has led to a severe environmental crisis – plastic waste accumulation. Traditional recycling methods face challenges related to quality and degradation, making them insufficient. Upcycling, an emerging solution, converts plastic waste into valuable chemicals and materials in an eco-friendly way. In this context, the EU-funded TwInn4MicroUp project introduces an innovative approach to upcycling, using green technologies to recover plastic monomers. The project aims to create microbial cell factories that produce bioactive compounds from plastic-derived feedstocks. TwInn4MicroUp seeks to revolutionise industries and promote scientific excellence, entrepreneurship, and global collaboration, paving the way for a sustainable future.
Objective
Plastics have become indispensable in various industries today, but their widespread use has resulted in a severe environmental crisis—plastic waste accumulation. Traditional methods of plastic waste management are insufficient and recycling faces quality and degradation challenges. Enter upcycling, a process gaining prominence in converting plastic waste into valuable chemicals and materials in an eco-friendly manner.
TwInn4MicroUp presents an innovative approach to plastic waste upcycling, employing green bio/mechano/chemical technologies to recover plastic monomers. Modern molecular techniques will be utilized to create microbial cell factories capable of producing bioactive compounds from these plastic-derived feedstocks, revolutionizing industries related to bio-colorants, biotherapeutics, bio-nutraceuticals, biosurfactants, and biomaterials.
TwInn4MicroUp is on a visionary mission to create the MicroUp HUB, an advanced Research and Innovation Hub in Synthetic Microbial Biotechnology. In our pursuit of maximal impact, we aim to establish strategic partnerships, strengthen NTUA's capabilities, enhance scientific excellence, and promote entrepreneurship and innovation. Our overarching goal is to establish NTUA at the core of the MicroUp HUB, leaving a lasting legacy by advancing scientific knowledge, environmental protection, public awareness, economic development, and global collaboration. Together, we are steering toward a sustainable and responsible future.
Fields of science
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- engineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologymetabolic engineering
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste management
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementinnovation management
- natural scienceschemical sciencescatalysisbiocatalysis
- engineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybiomaterials
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HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support ActionsCoordinator
157 72 ATHINA
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