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CIRCVET - Circular Economy practical training materials for plastics manufacturing industries, an Erasmus+ project financed by the European Commission, is a very interesting and important international initiative focused on promoting Circular Economy (CE) practices within the European plastics industry.

The project is composed by 12 partners from all over Europe: from Spain: AIJU (coordinator) and Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria, from Lithuania: LINPRA Cluster, VPM and Aprc , from Germany: Kunststoff Institut Ludenscheid, from France: Polymeris and Infinitivity Design Lab, from Italy: Università di Trento, HIT and Proplast Cluster and from Portugal: CENTIMFE Cluster.

Composite materials account for 2% of the total mass of a wind turbine, and the aim of the European EoLO-HUBs project is to deploy large-scale technologies for recycling composites from end-of-life wind turbines.

The Spanish technology center AITIIP, coordinator of the project and drawing on its experience in the aeronautics sector, is working on the pre-treatment and preparation of composites prior to the recycling stage. To prepare these composites, the wind turbine blades must first be cut up and cleaned of the surface treatments they have undergone during manufacture.  

Europe's Industrial Sectors Unite in Groundbreaking Initiative: Project IDEALIST Aims to Strengthen SME Resilience and Technological Adoption

In an unprecedented collaboration, a consortium of 14 partners from across 7 European countries have come together to launch the IDEALIST project, under the auspices of Horizon Europe, the EU's key funding programme for research and innovation.

This ambitious initiative seeks to address the urgent challenges faced by SMEs in the Energy-Intensive Industries, Aerospace & Defence, and Mobility, Transport, & Automotive sectors, promoting resilience, sustainable practices, and advanced technological adoption in the face of global disruptions such as the COVID-19 pandemic and geopolitical conflicts.