CELISE — Sustainable production of Cellulose-based products and additives to be used in SMEs and rural areas

Results in brief

Sustainable production of Cellulose-based products and additives to be used in SMEs and rural areas

Rural areas and small and medium enterprises need to be considered in nowadays in order to reduce inequalities and increase the social progress. In this sense, CELISE is an international project for helping the SMEs and rural areas within the bioeconomy. The overall aim of CELISE was to build and strengthen a multinational partnership between Europe and Latin America, enabling the exchange of knowledge and experience around sustainable biomass processing. The project was designed to balance three perspectives of the sustainability. From a social perspective, it focused on rural and/or vulnerable territories, co-creation workshops, educational programmes and approaches that can be deployed in smaller-scale settings. From an environmental perspective, it prioritised the use of residues as raw materials, the reduction of chemical reactants when possible, and the role of bioenergy. From an economic perspective, it looked at realistic applications for everyday products and supported decision-making through engineering and mathematical tools, in order to optimise business models. CELISE also aligned with broader EU and UN priorities, explicitly linking its approach to Sustainable Development Goals 7 (clean energy), 9 (industry and innovation) and 11 (sustainable communities). By the end of the project, CELISE successfully completed all planned Work Packages and delivered scientific outputs, training results and dissemination actions, while establishing durable cooperation between Europe and Latin America that is expected to continue beyond the action. A summary of the CELISE project can also be seen in the following publication: https://www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/celise-project-seeds-of-sustainability-in-rural-areas/62494/

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

The aim of the project is to create multinational partnership between European research and innovation institutions, industry, and researcher teams in third countries in order to exchange knowledge and experience concerning cellulose-based materials using biomass residues processing in small and medium enterprises and rural areas from Europe and Latin-America. In order to fulfil the sustainability of the complete process, the new products and processes will be chosen taking into account the social (rural and/or vulnerable areas, portable pieces of equipment and educational programmes), environmental (use of natural additives and biomass residues as raw materials, removal of chemicals reactants in the processes, bioenergy) and economic (every-day products in construction and health sectors, artisan economies, engineering and mathematical tools to optimise the business models) points of view. The project enhances the development of knowledge and scientific excellence by enabling European universities and industries to establish and maintain contacts with their partners in third countries thereby facilitating access to research environments outside Europe and promoting synergies on a global scale with corresponding directly to EU & UN priorities and within some global goals of sustainable development, especially 7, 9 and 11.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

UNIVERSIDAD DE CANTABRIA · SANTANDERCoordinatorSpain
ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS · THESSALONIKIGreece
BANGOR UNIVERSITY · BangorUnited Kingdom
BESARTE FIBRE NATURAL SOCIEDAD LIMITADA · SANTANDERSpain
CARBON COMPOST COMPANY LIMITED · EXETERUnited Kingdom
CESKE VYSOKE UCENI TECHNICKE V PRAZE · PRAHACzechia
ECORESOURCES IKE · THESSALONIKIGreece
INOCURE SRO · PrahaCzechia
INSTYTUT CHEMII FIZYCZNEJ POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK · WarszawaPoland
LATVIJAS VALSTS KOKSNES KIMIJAS INSTITUTS · RigaLatvia
Latitud-Fundación Laboratorio Tecnológico del Uruguay · MontevideoUruguay
NIBIO - NORSK INSTITUTT FOR BIOOKONOMI · AasNorway
PLASTIKARSKY KLASTR Z.S. · ZLINCzechia
POLITECHNIKA LUBELSKA · LublinPoland
POLITECHNIKA WARSZAWSKA · WarszawaPoland
QUANTUM ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SL · LEIOASpain
SZKOLA GLOWNA GOSPODARSTWA WIEJSKIEGO · WARSZAWAPoland
Student Science, s.r.o. · Horní PodlužíCzechia
TWI LIMITED · CambridgeUnited Kingdom
UNIVERSIDAD COOPERATIVA DE COLOMBIA · BogotaColombia
UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA · GranadaSpain
UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CHIMBORAZO · RiobambaEcuador
UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL · Santa FeArgentina
UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID · MadridSpain
UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI · LjubljanaSlovenia
UNIVERZITA TOMASE BATI VE ZLINE · ZlinCzechia
VOCATE LTD · WorcesterUnited Kingdom

CELISE · Sustainable production of Cellulose-based products and additives to be used in SMEs and rural areas

Results in brief

Sustainable production of Cellulose-based products and additives to be used in SMEs and rural areas

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