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The European low-carbon energy community appoints a newly expanded management body
During its annual General Assembly, the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA), Europe's largest energy research community, elected the new members of its Executive Committee for the period 2021-2024.
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The public waste agency of Flanders (OVAM) published a new ‘Food loss and biomass (residual) streams Circular 2021-2025’ action plan in mid-2020. One of the objectives of the action plan by 2025 is for the entire chain to aim for a 30% reduction in food losses compared to 2015 through prevention, reuse and selective collection. In 2015, food loss amounted to 907,000 tons. To reduce this by 30% by 2025 would mean a reduction of 272,000 tonnes (excluding economic growth). Food waste innovators like Foresightee are playing an important role in reducing food losses with their new initiatives.
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On 1 April 2021, the Circular Bonding project was officially launched. In this project Flanders Make, VITO en BIL combine their knowledge to guide Flemish companies in the sustainable design of their products with a view to repair, reuse and recycling.
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In view of the rising plastics consumption and production trends, a systematic and integrated perspective on plastics and its carbon cycle is important in order to find a way to make plastics compatible with a low-carbon economy - and to reinforce the understanding of the links between the circularity of plastics and climate change.
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Early detection of diseases and monitoring of disease progression and treatment require rapid, sensitive and reliable tests that can detect certain biomarkers. The development of these products requires a multi-disciplinary approach concerning specific biomarker recognition, implementation on a detection platform and prototyping, as well as analytical verification in a (pre-)clinical setting. For point-of-care tests, as they are known, nanotechnology is often used to improve the sensitivity of the assay.
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Carbohydrates (sugars) can be found in almost the unlikeliest of places: in sugar beet, but also in algae, and even in wood. The chemical components and structure of these sugars differ, however.
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Together with VITO, among others, Port of Antwerp investigated how to meet the needs of circular enterprise.
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Now that society's sights are set on increasingly relaxing the rules, meeting with others much more often and doing things together once again, the importance of measures and interventions that ensure this can be done safely is also increasing. That is why VITO and eu.reca vzw joined forces to host a webinar devoted entirely to the topic of indoor air purification, or the use of devices that actively purify the air by trapping and/or inactivating virus particles.
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"Digitalisation, which had already completely changed things in the telecoms sector, is now conquering the energy sector and will radically change the energy landscape even more in the coming years. But do you know what other sector is in urgent need of this change? The drinking water sector.", saysWalter Eevers, Director of R&D at VITO.
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On June 1, 2021, VITO and the European Respiratory Cluster (eu.reca) hosted a webinar on opportunities for indoor air purification in the fight against airborne infections, such as SARS-CoV-2.
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Assessing the carbon footprint of construction products is usually timeconsuming and difficult. Not so with the Enperas software, the newest digital solution from the spin-off programme through which VITO is making the Flemish economy stronger and more sustainable. With this digital sustainability assessment, which results from the activities of VITO/EnergyVille, companies can cover their entire product range in no time.
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PrecisionInhale® is an instrument of the Swedish Inhalation Sciences.
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Climate change affects cities more than the countryside. Large paved surfaces reinforce heat waves and increase the risk of flooding. The air quality in Flanders also remains a challenge. VITO aims with various projects to contribute to healthier air and more climaterobust cities.
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Together with 109 other comapnies, organisations and (local) authorities we commit to increasing the biodiversity on our company terrains in the coming three years.
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Calculation model that VITO has helped to develop, offers emergency services information that is needed to better anticipate on possible flooding scenarios.
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Residual streams are an inevitable part of manufacturing processes and sustainable solutions are being sought in a wide range of fields. Among these, the chemical sector presents some of the greatest challenges as its residual streams are typically highly complex and often also contain costly raw materials.
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Last night, 18th July 2019, VITO gave an update to 200 local residents about the deep geothermal project after the earthquake of 23rd June 2019.