BIOVEGEN co-organizes the Conference “European Tools for Financing R&D&I in the Circular Economy”

He Inter-platform Group on Circular Economy, of which BIOVEGEN is a part, promoted the Conference “European tools for financing R&D&I in the Circular Economy” that the past was celebrated June 26th at the CDTI headquarters (C/Cid 4, Madrid).

The event, in which European R&D&I Financing Programs were presented in the field of the Circular Economy, served to promote the participation of Spanish entities (companies, research centers) in these calls, as well as to present cases of success of projects financed by them.

Program and presentations of the day

09:30 a.m. Record

10:00 a.m. Opening

• Juan Antonio Tébar Chumillas. Head of the European Programs Division – H2020 of the Center for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI)

10:15 a.m. Opportunities for Circular Economy in H2020: Social Challenges and Industrial Leadership

• Lydia González. Representative on the Program Committee of Social Challenge 5: Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials of H2020. CDTI

• Lucia Inigo. Representative on the H2020 Nanosciences, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology, and Advanced Manufacturing and Processing (NMBP) Program Committee. CDTI

• Practical Experience: PLASTICIRCLE Project. Mireia Calvo Monteagudo. Technological Institute of Packaging, Transport and Logistics (ITENE)

• Practical Experience: ZEROBRINE Project. Miguel Cano. R&D Department of Industrias Químicas del Ebro

• Questions

11:30 a.m. Pilot of the European Innovation Council (EIC) and SME Instrument

• Luis J. Guerra. Representative on the H2020 SME Innovation Program Committee. CDTI

• Practical Experience: UPCYCLING THE OCEANS Project. Irene Díaz Ruiz. Director of the ECOALF Foundation

• Questions

12:15 p.m. Coffee Break

12:45 p.m. Opportunities for Circular Economy in the Life Program

• Luis Ángel Díez Orejas. National Contact Point for the LIFE Program. Ministry for the Ecological Transition

• Practical Experience: TL BIOFER Project. Jose Mª Gómez Palacios. Managing Director. PENINSULAR BIOMASS

• Questions

1:30 p.m. Helps formalize consortia. Interplatform Group Circular Economy

• Cristina González Alonso. SusChem-Spain on behalf of the Group Circular Economy Interplatforms

1:45 p.m. Closure