MIDWOR-LIFE Reaches its end but Work Continues Towards a More Sustainable Textile Industry
MIDWOR-LIFE is a project co-funded by LIFE programme that aims to reduce the impact on the environment, human health and
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Circular Economy
Study on Possibilities to Apply a Reduced Tax on Second-Hand Goods
The AERESS (Asociación Española de Recuperadores de EconomÃa Social y Solidaria) publishes a study prepared jointly with Leitat that analyzes
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Webinar from OECD/UN Environment Global PFC Group
Webinar from OECD/UN Environment Global PFC Group The MIDWOR-LIFE team has recently joined the Global PFC Group from the OECDÂ with
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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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Article published in Nature nanotechonolgy: Advanced tools for the safety assessment of nanomaterials
On the 6th of July 2018 a group of scientists from various European research centres including LEITAT, published an article
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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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Safety Aspects in Pilot Lines: an EPPN-NSC i2L joint session at NanoSAFE 2018
The workshop will be held during the 6th International Conference NanoSAFE 2018 on Wednesday 7th of November in Grenoble France.
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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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BREEZE at the 10th European Meeting on Solar Chemistry and Photocatalysis
Leitat’ team presented a poster of BREEZE project during the SPEA10, the 10th European Meeting on Solar Chemistry and Photocatalysis:
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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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FITOMATICS
FITOMATICS Production of volatile organic and antimicrobial compounds through biotechnological processes based on the use of endophytes and metabolic engineering
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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 Camà 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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Multimillion-euro project to improve the safety of nanomaterials
Heriot-Watt University will lead a multi-million global project that will assess the risks of nanomaterials and develop an approach to
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Run4Life @ IFAT in Munich: Register for the Stakeholder Workshop
Transforming the Value Chain into a Virtuous Circle:Â 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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Help test GUIDEnano risk-governance model by joining a user testing session
caLIBRAte will establish a versatile next-generation nano-risk governance framework for assessment and management of human and environmental risks of manufactured
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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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NANOCOMMONS
NanoCommons The European Nanotechnology Community Informatics Platform: Bridging data and disciplinary gaps for industry and regulators www.nanocommons.eu Nanotechnologies and the
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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 textilesâ€
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 ABSTRACT The RESILTRACK project, Resilience of Railway Infrastructures Against Climate Change, has
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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 theÂ
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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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Discover NANOFASE during Connect-EU Event in Barcelona
On the 6th of November, the Connect-EU 2017 event is taking place at the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya in
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Assessing the risk of nanomaterials: GUIDEnano in brief
The EU-funded GUIDENANO project has created an easy-to-use web-based tool to guide users through the risk assessment process for nanomaterials.
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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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A risk governance framework for assessment and management of human and environmental risks of manufactured nanomaterials
caLIBRAte project has now passed its initial phase, having identified existing knowledge, data, and nano-specific risk assessment tools and models
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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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EU Nanosafety Cluster Open Webinar
The EU NanoSafetyCluster is delighted to announce the first in a series of webinars that will introduce its work and
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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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NanoFASE in the Horizon Magazine: Nanomaterial tracking to limit impacts on the environment
A new Horizon Magazine feature article discusses how tracking the environmental exposure of the emerging nanomaterial industry could prevent potentially
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IbD project presented at Life Cycle Management Conference 2017 in Luxembourg
From the 3rd to the 6th of September 2017, the Life Cycle Management Conference took place in Luxembourg. The Life
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FIBERCLEAN
FIBERCLEAN Minimization of microfibers in the life cycle of textile products ABSTRACT The FIBERCLEAN project aims to obtain new solutions
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