29 avr. 2015
00:00
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30 avr. 2015
00:00
Conference // "Economics from Linear to Circular Economy", Florence/Italy
The event aims at developing strategies and projects to reduce and reuse waste for sustainable agriculture to zero waste.
The conference is organized by EGOCREANET in collaboration with Euro Info Centre (member of Enterprise Europe Network).
"Circular Economy" means a system efficiency of the use of resources, in which the end products of a phase of production become the origin of a subsequent phase of co- and by-products, resulting in a diagram, precisely , cyclic. The model can be advantageously applied in the complex processes of agricultural and food products, using waste of agro-food processes for increased productivity by creating nutraceutical products and to obtain and less environmental impact, minimizing any form of waste that pollute the main natural resources (water, air and fertility of the land).
EGOCREANET, as organizer and promoter of this event, aims to encourage companies in the food and agriculture sector to innovate by applying the criteria and perspectives of creativity in circular economy, through the creation of working groups, aimed at sharing the issues of greatest interest to develop European and International projects, looking at the financial opportunities of the calls on- Horizon Framework -2016-2020.
The main objective of the Conference in Florence will be to create a "think tank" to aggregate skills and creative abilities of companies and research for sustainable development of the Regional territories in Europe, towards a culture of saving, reusing and recycling within the agro- food area. The event aims to contribute to rethink the sustainability of production chains through developing an integrity between agro-food and nutraceutical production, so as to achieve an innovative thinking design based on self-sustainable energy and zero-waste recycling.
The two day's program will include: technical-scientific interventions of University and CNR and ENEA and innovative agri-food companies, a panel discussion and testimonies about European best practices, to analyze and discuss models, technologies and solutions to "change direction" in the traditional linear logic of developmental sustenability 'in economics and society:
The goals of that meetings in summary are:
-Reduce agricultural waste
-Enhancing waste and transformation in resources
-Interlinking resources - Optimize water management and Reduce energy consumption
-Producing alternative energy from renewable sources
-Favoring integrity between food and nutraceutical & functional-food co-production
Agenda
29 Apr 15:Pre-meeting
by invitation to organize a consotium for next calls The Tuscany Region, P. Unita 'N. 1 30 Apr 15:
Conference
Auditorium dell 'ECRF, via F. Portinari 5r. Firenze. open to public, participation is free