The 5th Project Coordination Meeting of the AccelWater project was held between May 30th and June 1st 2023. It was organized by MATIS and took place at the Hótel Reykjavík Grand in Reykjavik, Iceland. All Work Package Leaders participated, as well as the majority of the consortium members. According to the agenda, after a welcome…
On May 26th 2023, representatives from AGENSO and NTUA visited the Industrial Area of Patras, and more specifically two of the industries participating in the Industrial Symbiosis Demonstrator (WP 3), namely Athenian Brewery and FrieslandCampina Hellas. They were guided to the premises of the two industries, where they inspected the installations of the UF &…
On April 21st 2023, CT-BETA, Mafrica and INNOVACC organized a Circularity Day of resources in the meat industry in the University of Manresa. A total of 60 participants from meat industries, research centres, public health agency, different manufactures for industrial processes, among others, attended the workshop. The workshop is part of the European AccelWater project,…
On April 4th, members from the AGENSO’s AccelWater team traveled to the premises of KYKNOS S.A. Greek Canning Company in Savalia, Amaliada, Greece for a meeting. KYKNOS is one of the oldest and largest industries in Greece, dating back in 1915. They have been producing a wide variety of tomato products since their inception, such…
In the meeting entitled “Water management projects, Agriculture, Environment” held in the framework of the AgroThessaly Exhibition, the strong concern of producers and water management bodies about the supply of water in the coming years was discussed, among other things. The CEO of AGENSO, Zisis Tsiropoulos, spoke about the importance of the circular economy combined…
Our partners, MATIS, are participating in the 1st Bremerhaven Conference on Blue Economy and Fish Processing, a hybrid event that will take place in Bremerhaven and online (March 15th and 16th 2023). It is organized by ttz Bremerhaven. This conference aims to give an overview about the current challenges, trends and perspectives for the European…
The AccelWater project, as well as its digital platform, were presented during an event titled “Sustainable Economy in Horizon Europe – International Networking & Matchmaking (INSE 2022)” in Warsaw, Poland (December 5th & 6th) as a part of the session: “Success stories from H2020 SPIRE projects and from less represented countries”. The participating partner was…
The food and beverage industry accounts for 56% of global freshwater consumption for industrial use. In the meat sector, for example, pig slaughterhouses can use between 250 and 550 litres per head of animal slaughtered, with the cleaning of carcasses and equipment and sanitisation of facilities being the most water-intensive activities. In the case of…
The 4th project coordination meeting took place in Athens, in November 2022 (14th and 15th). It was organized by AGENSO and most consortium members attended the meeting physically, while those who were unable to travel, participated through a video call. During the meeting, the progress in all four demonstrators was presented as well as the platform that…
A series of dissemination activites by INNOVACC and UVIC took place during September. First of all, on September 15th they participated in the Watertalks conference, which was organized by the Catalan Water partnership and the main theme of which was water management in the agri-food sector. INNOVACC, as a representative cluster of the meat and…