Innovative approaches to turn agricultural waste into ecological and economic assets

Objective

NoAW : No Agro-Waste.
Innovative approaches to turn agricultural waste into ecological and economic assets.
Driven by a “near zero-waste” society requirement, the goal of NoAW project is to generate innovative efficient approaches to convert growing agricultural waste issues into eco-efficient bio-based products opportunities with direct benefits for both environment, economy and EU consumer. To achieve this goal, the NoAW concept relies on developing holistic life cycle thinking able to support environmentally responsible R&D innovations on agro-waste conversion at different TRLs, in the light of regional and seasonal specificities, not forgetting risks emerging from circular management of agro-wastes (e.g. contaminants accumulation).
By involving all agriculture chain stakeholders in a territorial perspective, the project will:
(1) develop innovative eco-design and hybrid assessment tools of circular agro-waste management strategies and address related gap of knowledge and data via extensive exchange through the Knowledge exchange Stakeholders Platform,
(2) develop breakthrough knowledge on agro-waste molecular complexity and heterogeneity in order to upgrade the most widespread mature conversion technology (anaerobic digestion) and to synergistically eco-design robust cascading processes to fully convert agro-waste into a set of high added value bio-energy, bio-fertilizers and bio-chemicals and building blocks, able to substitute a significant range of non-renewable equivalents, with favourable air, water and soil impacts
and (3) get insights of the complexity of potentially new, cross-sectors, business clusters in order to fast track NoAW strategies toward the field and develop new business concepts and stakeholders platform for cross-chain valorisation of agro-waste on a territorial and seasonal basis.

Field of science

/engineering and technology/materials engineering/composites/biocomposites
/agricultural sciences/agricultural biotechnology/biomass
/engineering and technology/industrial biotechnology/biomaterials/bioplastics/polyhydroxyalkanoates
/agricultural sciences/agriculture, forestry, and fisheries/agriculture
/natural sciences/biological sciences/biochemistry/biomolecules/lipids
/social sciences/economics and business/business and management/commerce

Programme(s)

Topic(s)

WASTE-7-2015 - Ensuring sustainable use of agricultural waste, co-products and by-products

Call for proposal

H2020-WASTE-2015-two-stage
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Funding Scheme

RIA - Research and Innovation action

Coordinator

INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE, L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT

Address

147 Rue De L'universite
75007 Paris Cedex 07
France

Activity type

Research Organisations

EU contribution

€ 1 134 475