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.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcompositesbiocomposites
- agricultural sciencesagricultural biotechnologybiomass
- engineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybiomaterialsbioplasticspolyhydroxyalkanoates
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculture
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesbiochemistrybiomoleculeslipids
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementcommerce
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
H2020-WASTE-2015-two-stage
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
75007 Paris Cedex 07
France
Participants (32)
37134 Verona
501 15 Boras
00185 Roma
92431 Neunburg Vorm Wald
40126 Bologna
2800 Kgs Lyngby
11000 Beograd
1096 Budapest
2781-901 Oeiras
80686 Munchen
30240 Le Grau Du Roi
15780 Athina
34090 Montpellier
Participation ended
30360 Cruviers Lascours
74592 Kirchberg An Der Jagst
9220 Aalborg
1201 Geneve
6708 PB Wageningen
00186 Roma
85354 Freising
1775TA Middenmeer
310 Chutung
Hong Kong
510275 Guangzhou
100193 Beijing
75015 Paris
34310 Vinca Topola
80992 Muenchen
1308 Kobenhavn
315800 Ningbo
64053 Pau Cedex 9
30360 Cruviers Lascours