DeWine: R&D project to dealcoholize wine
Within the OsmoFOOD project, which was awarded with funding from the SME Instrument of the European Commission, LEF Ingenieros is
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Circular Economy
Second Meeting KET 4 Clean Production Project in Leitat
Today and tomorrow, partners of the KET 4 Clean Production project meet in Leitat headquarters for the second time. During
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BIOCONCO2 meeting in Terrassa: CO2 conversion into commodities for chemicals and plastics
On the 19th of June, the BIOCON-CO2 consortium met in Leitat headquarters in Terrassa (Barcelona) 6 months after the kickoff
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MIDWOR-LIFE Gathers International Stakeholders for its Final Event to Present Key Results
On June 5th, the final event of MIDWOR-LIFE gathered 36 stakeholders from 10 European countries in the field of substitution
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KET4CP Project: Call for Micro Grants Proposals Officially Launched!
KET4CleanProduction is a coordination and support action (CSA) funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme. The project fosters the
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Open Workshop: Ecodesign in the Textile Sector
On 22nd of May, Leitat and AEI Tèxtils organizes the Workshop “Ecodesign on textile sector” targeted to companies from textile
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Review of the event on Innovative Energy Storage Systems for Green Energy Supply
On the 8th of May, the event on Innovative Energy Storage Systems for Green Energy Supply took place in Barcelona
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IV Jornada d’Innovació Anoia: Towards a New Waste Management Model
On the 5th of June, the IV Jornada d’Innovació Anoia will take place in Vilanova del Camí in the Centre
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Register: Innovative Energy Storage Systems for Green Energy Supply
On the 8th of May 2018, Leitat in collaboration with the Institut Català d’Energia, organises an open event around innovative
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Nanocelluloses to replace plastics in the industry
A business research consortium in which Leitat participates, launched yesterday a pioneering project for the use of nanocelluloses, a product
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The Food for Life Spain platform presents METASIN project
Eight Spanish companies from the food and biotechnology sector created together the METASIN project. It is coordinated by Biosearch Life,
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Giving value to stickwater of the fishmeal production process
In the framework of REFISHEIN project, researchers from Leitat and LEF Ingenieros created a method that extracts, purifies and recovers
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A Technology to Improve the Treatment of Urban Wastewater
Sorigué, in collaboration with Leitat, develops a new technology called Electrowetland to improve the efficiency in the process of elimination
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Run4Life @ IFAT in Munich: Register for the Stakeholder Workshop
Transforming the Value Chain into a Virtuous Circle: Integrated Nutrient Recovery Save the date: Run4Life will be present at the
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WDS awarded as Best LIFE-Environment Project 2016-2017
The Wooldryscouring (WDS) Project – Eco-Efficient Dry Wool Scouring with total by-products recovery – received the award of Best LIFE-Environment
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Innovative Actions for Delivering Sustainable Energy
The TO-SYN-FUEL consortium is delighted to introduce its first newsletter edition. In this edition, the consortium present news about market
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ACC1Ó organises a H2020 event focused on H2020 Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials
Today, in the framework of the “Taller de revisió de propostes H2020: Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials”,
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BIOCON-CO2
BIOCON-CO2 BIOtechnological processes based on microbial platforms for the CONversion of CO2 from iron&steel industry into commodities for chemicals and
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How to create green cities for all
There are many reasons why we need our cities to be green: to improve citizen health; to reduce flood risk;
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Stakeholder workshop “Advances in the substitution of hazardous flame retardant chemicals in home textiles”
The FLAREX Life+ project and EURATEX will organise a workshop in association with the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) to discuss
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Discover the URBAN GreenUP video! New strategy for re-naturing cities through nature-based solutions
URBAN GreenUP is a EU-funded project that aims at developing, applying and validating a methodology for Renaturing Urban Plans to
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RESILTRACK
RESILTRACK Resilience of Railway Infrastructures Against Climate Change The RESILTRACK project, Resilience of Railway Infrastructures Against Climate Change, has been
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2nd Stop of the Ocean Plastics Lab: Paris
The Ocean Plastics Lab opened its doors to the public again this November in Paris, France. With support from the
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Life-Flarex highlighted by its great impact at the legislative level
EASME, the Executive Agency for Small and Medium Enterprises of the European Commission, organized a meeting to initiate all the
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Air could be the world’s next battery
The Sustainability division of LEITAT participates in the European RICAS2020 project, analyzing the environmental and social impact of this new
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LEITAT part of the Ocean Plastics Lab: A Travelling Exhibition
The Ocean Plastics Lab opened its doors to the public for the first time in Turin, Italy! The exhibition was
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International Conference on Microplastic Pollution in the Mediterranean Sea
The International Conference on Microplastic Pollution in the Mediterranean Sea – μ MED – was hosted in Capri (NA), Italy, last
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Results of NOSHAN project exploited by research projects: Feed of the Future
NOSHAN project finished more than 1 year ago and results are being actively used by ongoing research projects. The ProBIO
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How to recover proteins from stickwater to improve the quality of fishmeal
LEITAT and LEF INGENIEROS collaborate to recover proteins from stickwater to improve the quality of fishmeal The REFISHEIN project, the
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FiberClean
FIBERCLEAN Minimization of microfibers in the life cycle of textile products The FIBERCLEAN project aims to obtain new solutions that
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Industrial demonstration of alternative DWOR due to begin in the next months!
MIDWOR-LIFE is already working with the six companies that will participate in the industrial demonstration of the alternative DWOR products
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LEITAT on TV3! Microplastics, from the clothes to the sea
The famous TV show from Catalan TV3 Quèquicom came to LEITAT to learn about the effects of microplastics present in
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Ensuring sustainability of the production of synthetic fuels and green hydrogen
Turning sewage sludge into fuels and hydrogen is a complex task. The TOSYNFUEL project is taking up this challenge and
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GROW GREEN: new partnership to demonstrate benefits of nature-based solutions in cities
Innovation will be the focus of GROW GREEN, which stands for “Green Cities for Climate and Water Resilience, Sustainable Economic
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Starting to BREEZE: a Clean Sky project for a cleaner air in the plane
On the 4th of July 2017, the kickoff meeting of the BREEZE project took place in LEITAT headquarters with the
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Barcelona Industry 4.0 Week and Open Innovation Forum: Solutions to Innovation Challenges
From the 1st to the 6th of October 2017, the Barcelona Industry 4.0 Week will take place in the Gran
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URBAN GreenUP – New Strategy for Re-naturing Cities through Nature-Based Solutions
URBAN GreenUP is a project funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Under the coordination of
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MERMAIDS in the news! Challenging the economy to reduce microfiber pollution
Last week, an article about the Mermaids project was published in The Guardian. Mermaids deals with the mitigation of microplastics
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Review of the Final Conference of demEAUmed: pre-market technologies for water reuse
The demEAUmed Final Conference was held in Barcelona on the May 18th 2017. Results, benefits and opportunities of demEAUmed technologies in managing,
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€ 184 million of Horizon 2020 funding for 23 environment & resources projects
The European Commission has selected 23 projects that will receive around €184 million under Horizon 2020’s Societal Challenge “Climate action,
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Starting TOSYNFUEL project : Conversion of sewage sludge into fuel and hydrogen
On May 1, 2017, the Horizon 2020 research project “Demonstration of Waste Biomass to Synthetic Fuels and Green Hydrogen” (acronym:
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SOIL RESETTING
SOIL RESETTING Innovative biobased Soil Resetting system for European Horticulture Soil Resetting technology is an alternative resource efficient and eco-innovative
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El Foro de la Innovación Tecnológica del Sector del Agua se reúne en LEITAT
Hoy se reúne el foro de la innovación tecnológica del sector agua en la sede de LEITAT en Terrassa. Durante
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Final agenda released for the demEAUmed final conference in Barcelona on 18 May
Join us at demEAUmed Final Conference in Barcelona on the 18th ofd May where results, benefits and opportunities of demEAUmed
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BOATCYCLE selected as a best practice for circular economy in LIFE projects
In a recent publication of the European Commission entitled “LIFE and the Circular Economy“, the BOATCYCLE project has been selected
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