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NoAW
NoAW: No Agro-Waste
Objectives
Driven by a near zero-waste society requirement, the goal of NoAW project is to generate innovative efficient approaches to convert growing agricultural waste issues into eco-efficient bio-based products opportunities with direct benefits for both environment, economy and EU consumer.
By involving all agriculture chain stakeholders in a territorial perspective, the project will:
- develop innovative eco-design and hybrid assessment tools of circular agro-waste management strategies and address related gap of knowledge and data via extensive exchange through the Knowledge exchange Stakeholders Platform,
- develop breakthrough knowledge on agro-waste molecular complexity and heterogeneity in order to upgrade the most widespread mature conversion technology (anaerobic digestion) and to synergistically eco-design robust cascading processes to fully convert agro-waste into a set of high added value bio-energy, bio-fertilizers and bio-chemicals and building blocks, able to substitute a significant range of non-renewable equivalents, with favourable air, water and soil impacts,
- get insights of the complexity of potentially new, cross-sectors, business clusters in order to fast track NoAW strategies toward the field and develop new business concepts and stakeholders platform for cross-chain valorisation of agro-waste on a territorial and seasonal basis.
EC funding : 7M € (Budget 7 816 232,50 €)
Duration : 4 years
Start : October 1st 2016
Coordinator : Nathalie GONTARD - nathalie.gontard@inra.fr
Project manager : Parisa Louise DARZI - parisa-louise.darzi@inra.fr