Background

Driving resource efficiency in products, processes and business models are now key issues for policy makers and businesses. Central to this is moving towards a Circular Economy and away from the traditional industrial model where waste is considered the norm. The EU-FP7-project “ZeroWIN – Towards Zero Waste in Industrial Networks” developed integrated industrial symbiotic systems in which waste is considered to be a resource. By exchanging industrial by-products, energy, water and materials between sectors, waste from one industry becomes raw material for another.

‘Circular Economy & Industrial Networks’ is a free event that will draw on the conclusions from the ZeroWIN project and in particular the lessons learnt from ten industrial case studies that concentrated on industrial networks in the automotive, construction, electronics and photovoltaic industries.

The ZeroWIN consortium has 30 partners from 11 countries (Austria, Germany, Spain, France, Hungary, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Romania, the United Kingdom and Taiwan) and is coordinated by the Austrian Society for Systems Engineering and Automation (SAT). More details are available on www.zerowin.eu

Agenda

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09:00
Registration
09:30
Welcome and Introduction
Professor Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design ®,
UCA, UK
09:45
ZeroWIN Vision & Production Model
Dr Bernd Kopacek, Managing Director, SAT, Austria
10:10
Practical Demonstrator: ICT Re-use
Gerhard Kast, Executive Director, UP Umweltanalytische Produkte, Germany
10:35
Practical Demonstrator: D4R Laptop
Jose Ospina, Project Manager, MicroPro, Ireland
11:00
Practical Demonstrator: Building & Demolition
Phil Wilding, Managing Director, Wilding-Butler, UK
Tony Curran, Research Fellow, Centre for Environmental Science, University of Southampton, UK
11:25
Coffee/Tea
11:50
EC Funding Opportunities
Dr Panagiotis Balabanis, Deputy Head of Unit – Eco-innovation, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission, Belgium
12:00
Circular Economy & Industrial Networks
Professor Ian Williams,
Centre for Environmental Science,
University of Southampton, UK
12:25
Policy Implications
Dr Federico Magalini, Research Associate, United Nations University, Germany
12:50
Panel
Facilitated by Professor Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design ®, UCA, UK

Dr Panagiotis Balabanis, Deputy Head of Unit – Eco-innovation, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission, Belgium
Gerhard Kast, Executive Director, UP Umweltanalytische Produkte, Germany
Dr Bernd Kopacek, Managing Director, SAT, Austria
Jose Ospina, Project Manager, MicroPro, Ireland
Phil Wilding, Managing Director, Wilding-Butler, UK
Professor Ian Williams, Centre for Environmental Science, University of Southampton, UK

13:30
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Funding

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 226752.

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ZeroWIN Partners