Scientific meeting on circular economy and waste management
26 June 2018
Chair: Fausto Freire (UC) Co-chair: Lia Vasconcelos (FCT NOVA)
Venue: University of Coimbra (UC), Polo II Campus, Coimbra, Portugal
Preliminary programme
09.00 - 09:30 Registration | Opening
09.30 - 12:00 Panel I
Waste Management and Circular economy
Paulo Ferrão (FCT-MCTES, IST-UL, Portugal)
Systems approaches to the circular economy
Roland Clift (University of Surrey, UK)
The UrbanWINS project
Livia Mazzá (Fondazione Ecosistemi, Italy)
Urban metabolism
Leonardo Rosado/Divia Encarnacion (Chalmers University, Sweden)
14.00 - 16.00 Panel II
Food waste
Serenella Sala (JRC-EC)
Waste management opportunities in an agro-industrial cooperative in Brazil
Cassiano Piekarski (UTFPR, Brazil)
Project LIFEPAYT - Tool to reduce waste in Southern Europe
Célia Dias-Ferreira (CERNAS, Portugal)
EU Project SCREEN - Synergic Circular Economy across European Regions
Alexandra Rodrigues * (CCDRC, Portugal)
Participatory approaches
Lia Vasconcelos (FCT NOVA, Portugal)
Integrating Urban Metabolism, Material Flow Analysis & Life-Cycle Assessment *
16.00 - 17.00 Open session – flash talks
17.00 Closing
* to be confirmed
To apply for the event, please fill in the form in https://goo.gl/PQsuf6 until May 14.
Call for Flash-Talks
An “Open Session” for short presentations will be available. To submit a short presentation on a topic relevant for this scientific meeting (10 min), please send a short abstract (150 words) to fausto.freire@dem.uc.pt (Fausto Freire), ltv@fct.unl.pt (Lia Vasconcelos) and rita.garcia@dem.uc.pt (Rita Garcia).
The preliminary program can also be found here (pdf)
The “Scientific meeting on circular economy and waste management: tools and applications” is organized by the Center for Industrial Ecology at the University of Coimbra, together with FCT NOVA, CEIFAcoop and the Municipality of Leiria, in the scope of the EU H2020 funded project “UrbanWINS: Urban metabolism accounts for building waste management innovative networks and strategies”.
Center for Industrial Ecology, University of Coimbra, http://www2.dem.uc.pt/CenterIndustrialEcology/
Urban WINS project www.urbanwins.eu
