The inspiring event you were waiting for! Registrations are on for the exciting Water Projects Europe 2021 event, designed to respond to the European environmental challenges by presenting 5 of the most revolutionary projects developing water-smart strategies: Waste2Fresh, AccelWater, IntelWATT, AquaSPICE and iWAYS. This free event will be online and will offer you the chance to learn how the projects are delivering a step change in…
The partners involved in the meat processing demonstrator located in Sant Joan de Vilatorrada (Spain) are holding meetings with authorities belonging to different areas of the Catalan Government with the objective of explaining the goals of the AccelWater project, reporting the challenges identified during the first year of the project and, starting to work together…
Two scientific publications have been prepared for the Accelwater project by ICCS. The first one is a systematic literature review related to the informational systems facilitating IS, the title of which is “Industrial symbiosis platforms for synergy identification and their most important data points: a systematic review”. Ultimately, Accelwater entails the development of a digital…
There was an oral presentation of AccelWater at an online agri-food sector cluster conference, titled “Carbon and water footprint reduction in the agri-food sector”. The conference took place online on July 7th and 8th 2021. The conference was organized by Agroalim (the agri-food cluster of Nuevo Leon, Mexico) and INNOVACC (pig meat processing cluster, Spain).…
A meeting of all partners from WP 4 took place at the ProdAl Scarl premises, on July 2nd 2021. During the meeting, each partner introduced themselves, and then Mrs. Ferrari (representing the host organization), made a brief presentation about the project, its main objectives, the methodology and the timeline. Then, WP 4 was presented in…
The 2nd Project Coordination Meeting of the AccelWater project was held on July 8th 2021. It was organized by AGENSO and took place online using the Microsoft Teams platform, due to the COVID-19 restrictions. All Work Package Leaders participated, as well as the majority of the consortium members. According to the agenda, after a welcome…
A meeting of all partners from WP 3 took place at the Industrial Area of Patras on June 16th 2021. The partners were guided to the biological treatment installations of FrieslandCampinaHellas and Athenian Brewery, as well as the facilities of Rezos Brands, where the Tasks described in WP 3 will be implemented. More specifically, the…
On June 8th 2021, Lidia Paredes, a researcher from BETA Technological Center (UVic-UCC) participated in the conference “Horizon Europe-Aigua” organized by the Catalan Water Partnership and ACCIÓ. This specific session about the water was part of the Horizon Europe Week and its objective was to explain the lines of action and funding priorities of the…
The leader of WP 4: Tomato Processing Demonstrator of the AccelWater project, PRODAL, will be making an oral presentation at the 8th International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management. The conference was supposed to take place in Thessaloniki, from June 23rd to 26th 2021, but due to COVID-19 restrictions, it will be held virtually. The…
The European Green Deal is a set of policy initiatives by the European Commission with the overarching aim of making Europe climate neutral in 2050. An impact assessed plan will also be presented to increase the EU’s greenhouse gas emission reductions target for 2030 to at least 50% and towards 55% compared with 1990 levels.…