Project description
Turning agro-waste into eco-efficient assets
For decades, agricultural waste has posed a challenge. As the global population continues to grow, so does the demand for food production. This increased production inevitably leads to a surge in agricultural waste, which includes crop residues, animal manure and food processing by-products. In this context, the EU-funded NoAW project recognises the urgent need for environmentally responsible solutions. Specifically, the project will develop eco-design tools and strategies for circular agro-waste management, filling crucial knowledge gaps through an extensive exchange on the Knowledge Exchange Stakeholders Platform. By upgrading existing conversion technologies and designing cascading processes, this project will create high-value bio-energy, bio-fertilisers, bio-chemicals and building blocks, reducing our reliance on non-renewable resources while minimising air, water and soil impacts.
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 technologyenvironmental biotechnologybioremediationbioreactors
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energy
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcompositesbiocomposites
- engineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybiomaterialsbioplasticspolyhydroxyalkanoates
- engineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybiomaterialsbiofuels
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
75007 Paris
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75116 Paris
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37134 Verona
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501 15 Boras
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00185 Roma
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40126 Bologna
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2800 Kongens Lyngby
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11000 BEOGRAD
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1096 Budapest
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2781-901 Oeiras
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80686 Munchen
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30240 LE GRAU DU ROI
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157 80 ATHINA
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34090 Montpellier
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30360 CRUVIERS LASCOURS
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74592 Kirchberg An Der Jagst
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9220 Aalborg
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1201 GENEVE
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6708 PB Wageningen
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00186 Roma
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85354 Freising
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34070 Montpellier
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1775TA MIDDENMEER
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310 Chutung
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Hong Kong
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510275 GUANGZHOU
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100193 Beijing
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75013 PARIS
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34310 VINCA TOPOLA
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80992 MUENCHEN
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1308 KOBENHAVN
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315800 NINGBO
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64053 PAU CEDEX 9
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30360 CRUVIERS LASCOURS
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