MAGNO – Conquering New Strategies to Prevent and Reduce Packaging Pollution

Programme: Horizonte Europa (GA 101135258) Date: 2024-2027 As Europe shifts to a bio-based circular economy, a plethora of new packaging restrictions have emerged. MAGNO seeks to improve packaging effectiveness, sustainability, efficient usage, end-of-life (reuse and recycling), and innovative business practices in EU food systems through revolutionary strategies shaped for the ecological transition required by the…

BIO2REG – Enabling transition towards circular and systemic BIOeconomy model regions by a Regions-to-Regions approach

Programme: Horizonte Europa (GA 101135420) Date: 2024-2026 The transition to a sustainable bioeconomy is a recognised pathway to achieving the ambitions of the Green Deal. The regionalised bioeconomy, key to green growth in Europe, lacks effective implementation due to a lack of practical knowledge among stakeholders. Regions dependent on GHG-intensive economies face major challenges in…

K-CCRI – Knowledge hub to leverage existing initiatives and projects to foster the adoption of Circular economy in Cities and Regions In Europe

Programme: Horizonte Europa (GA 101135174) Date: 2024-2026 K-CCRI aims to increase the impact of the existing Circular Cities and Regions Initiative (CCRI) by expanding the network of stakeholders, bringing together the knowledge and critical mass already developed around the implementation of the Circular Economy and building on the EC stakeholder platform. The aim is to…

HORUS – Health Outcomes from Raised Urban Settings

Programme: Horizon Europe (GA 101136516) Date: 2023-2026 NCDs, especially diabetes and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, accounting for 17.9 million deaths per year. Diabetes, on the other hand, accounts for 2 million deaths annually. These diseases have a greater impact on vulnerable populations. This increased prevalence among this…

PALLIAKID – Comprehensive pediatric palliative care approach

Programme: Horizon Europe Date: 2023-2028 PALLIAKID is an interdisciplinary project aimed at evaluating the feasibility, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of novel interventions for children, adolescents and young people with palliative and end-of-life care needs in different European healthcare systems, focusing on those factors valued by patients and their caregivers. The project is based on three fundamental…

CO-SECUR – Knowledge building and social innovation for a successful, more effective and CO-produced urban SECURity solutions. ​

Programme: Horizon Europe Date: 2023-2026 The protection as a fundamental right and a key priority for the European Union is manifested in the aspiration to achieve safe urban environments and crowd events, aligned with Goal 11 of the European Agenda 2030. This goal requires a participatory and comprehensive approach to ensure urban security by addressing…

ViSS – Viable, safe and sustainable PHBV value chain for food packaging applications

Programme: Horizon Europe (GA 101081931) Date: 2023-2027 European plastics policy highlights bio-based plastics as a key to solving the negative impact of fossil-based plastics on the environment. One of the most promising biodegradable biopolymers is the family of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), which can replace these fossil plastics in many applications. They are synthesised by microorganisms from…

CO-CAPTAIN – Cancer prevention among individuals with mental ill-health: CO-adapting and implementing patient navigation for primary cancer prevention

Programme: Horizon Europe (GA 101104784) Date: 2023-2026 Cancer and mental illness are major public health problems in Europe. More than 80 million people suffer from mental health problems, and around 4 million new cases of cancer are diagnosed each year. There is a link between mental health and cancer, with people with mental health problems…

K-HEALTHinAIR – Knowledge for improving indoor AIR quality and HEALTH

Programme: Horizon Europe (GA 101057693) Date: 2022-2025 K-HEALTHinAIR aims at the assessment of the indoor air quality (IAQ) effects in health on the basis of an extensive monitoring campaign of chemical and biological indoor air pollutants in several very representative  at EU-level indoor locations together with deep research on their sources, interactions, and main correlations…

DISTENDER – DevelopIng STratEgies by integrating mitigatioN, aDaptation and participation to climate changE Risks

Programme: Horizon Europe (GA 101056836) Date: 2022-2025 DISTENDER is a project funded by the Horizon Europe program that has 31 partners from 12 countries and aims to build a methodological framework for the integration of different types of adaptation and mitigation strategies against climate change in six case studies that include both European cities and…