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🎉 Our OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project has been highlighted in the 2025 Annual Report of VLAIO - Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship! OBIWAN is one of the Interreg France-Wallonie-Vlaanderen projects for which partner Ghent University received cofinancing from VLAIO as well as from Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen. 💫 Link to the annual report (see p. 21): Click here #InterregFWVL #hydrogen #biogas #sustainability

💥 Last week, we had our first workshop for the OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project in Ghent, followed by the official inauguration of the ETFB set-up at the Laboratory for Chemical Technology (Ghent University). 👏 Thanks to all our speakers - Joris Thybaut (OBIWAN coordinator), Julien Estager (COMPOVERT), Sofie Verschraegen (ValCelMat), Ben De Waele (Fluxys), Isabel Francois (WaterstofNet) and Simon De Langhe (Ghent University) - for their contributions! 💫 Congratulations to Kevi

⚡ Harnessing The Force - Innovative Hydrogen Production One more week to go for our OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project workshop focused on hydrogen production, one of the main research axes within the project! 📅 When? Thursday 30/04/2026, 14:00 - 16:00 (CET) 🌍 Where? Tech Lane Ghent Science Park or online (Microsoft Teams) Program: 14:00 Introduction OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project by Joris Thybaut 14:15 Introduction COMPOVERT by Julien Estager 14:30 Introduction ValCelMat by Sofie

💥 Interested to know more about the combination of chemical engineering and electricity utilization? How can this combination help establishing true circularity? Do we need chemical conversion anyway? During the guest lecture ‘Catalytic Reaction and Reactor Engineering for Bio-Gas Valorization’, Joris Thybaut will delve deeper into how chemical reactor electrification brings low-emission, fully renewable-based chemicals and fuels production within reach. 🎤 The Interreg...

💥 Would you like to learn more about the challenges of cellulose valorization? Or about the history of plastic/paper cups? With the conference entitled “Challenges and Context of Cellulose Valorization – Functionalization to Produce High-Performance Materials”, Alexis Spalletta will explore the alternatives currently being developed through the ValCelMat project. 🎤 The Interreg France-Wallonie-Vlaanderen sister projects OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project , ValCelMat and COMPO

💥 Interested to know more about how additive manufacturing is reshaping current research avenues? How it can optimize complex tooling design or enable the production of metallic structured reactors with unmatched geometries? And what are the future challenges for composite materials printing? 🎤 During the joint guest lecture series of the Interreg France-Wallonie-Vlaanderen sister projects OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project , ValCelMat and COMPOVERT , Maxence Renaux, Ph.D will

⚡ Harnessing The Force - Innovative Hydrogen Production 💥 We are two weeks away from our OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project workshop focused on hydrogen production, one of the main research axes within the project. The workshop will be followed by an official kick-off event with the inauguration of the ETFB set-up at the Laboratory for Chemical Technology . 📅 When? Thursday 30/04/2026, 14:00 - 18:00 (CET) 🗺 Where? Tech Lane Ghent Science Park or online (Microsoft Teams) Progra

⚡ Harnessing The Force - Innovative Hydrogen Production 💥We are one month away from our OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project workshop focused on hydrogen production, one of the main research axes within the project. The workshop will be followed by an official kick-off event with the inauguration of the ETFB set-up at the Laboratory for Chemical Technology . 📅 When? Thursday 30/04/2026, 14:00 - 18:00 (CET) 🗺 Where? Tech Lane Ghent Science Park or online (Microsoft Teams) Prog

The research team from Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC) and UniLaSalle Beauvais is delighted to be taking part in the Biogas and Anaerobic Digestion Research and Innovation Days organised by the Association ATEE and ENSAIA . In Nancy, we are delighted to be able to share the progress of various research projects in this field, including that of Sorosh Samiei as part of the OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project . Sorosh presented the OBIWAN project in its enti

The presentation of Sorosh Samiei ( Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC) ) during the competition "Ma thèse en 180 secondes", organized by l'Alliance Sorbonne Université can now be viewed on our OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project website! 👉 View the recording of Sorosh his presentation at our Presentations section. Sorosh is one of the five representatives of the Alliance Sorbonne Université who will move on to the next stage of the competition, the regional final i

👏 Congratulations to Sorosh Samiei ( Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC) ) with receiving the third price in the competition "Ma thèse en 180 secondes", organized by l'Alliance Sorbonne Université ! Sorosh presented the topic of his PhD, which he is performing in the framework of the OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project . 👉 View a fragment from the award ceremony via the following link: https://lnkd.in/e5Bwmp4f #InterregFWVL #biogas #sustainability #waste2resour

🎤 The Interreg France-Wallonie-Vlaanderen sister projects OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project , ValCelMat and COMPOVERT are joining forces to organize a joint series of guest lectures! The guest lectures are aimed to familiarize both researchers from our project consortia and external interested parties with the research domains and specific activities of these three projects and their partners. 📅 When? Tuesday 28/04/2026, 09:30 - 12:00 (CET) 🌍 Where? Online via Microsoft

📢Last week, our electrothermal fluidized-bed (ETFB) reactor set-up arrived at the Laboratory for Chemical Technology ! This set-up will be used in the OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project for the conversion of biomethane into hydrogen and solid carbon. Installation of the ETFB set-up (which was manufactured by Vinci Technologies ) is currently ongoing and its official inauguration is scheduled for April 30. 🚩 Interested to attend the official inauguration of the ETFB set-up? Re

📢 Our first series of guest lectures has now been transformed into a webinar and published on our OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project website! 👉 See the video in our Webinar section Interested to know more about the purification of biogas, hydrogenation pathways of CO 2 or specifically the OBIWAN project? Then have a look at the webinar in which Joris Thybaut ( Ghent University , OBIWAN coordinator), Julien Estager ( Certech ) and Andrei Khodakov ( CNRS ) will guide you

🎤✨We are proud to announce that one of the OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project PhD students - Sorosh Samiei from Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC) - is going to the final of the competition "Ma thèse en 180 secondes", organized by l'Alliance Sorbonne Université . 🕓 When? 19/03/2026 at 18:00 🌍 Where? l'Auditorium de Sorbonne Université (campus Pierre et Marie Curie) or online via YouTube 👉 Subscribe to view and vote via the following link: https://lnkd.in/dTN7d

Yesterday, we had a first meeting with our OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project Advisory Board members at Ghent University . The meeting was closed with a visit to the laboratory and pilot facilities of the Laboratory for Chemical Technology . OBIWAN aims at converting organic waste streams into advanced chemicals and sustainable aviation fuels and will therefore generate technology to mitigate climate change, not only by avoiding greenhouse gas emissions but also by tuning such

⚡ Harnessing the Force: Innovative Hydrogen Production within OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project The OBIWAN consortium welcomes you to their workshop focused on hydrogen production, one of the main research axes within the project. The workshop will be followed by an official kick-off event with the inauguration of the ETFB set-up at Laboratory for Chemical Technology . 📅 When? Thursday 30/04/2026, 14:00 - 18:00 (CET) 🗺 Where? Tech Lane Ghent Science Park or online (Microsoft

Our OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project is all about cross-border cooperation! Last week, our Walloon partner Certech visited the anaerobic digestion platform of GIS Solimétha, jointly associated with our French partners Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC) and UniLaSalle . Following the visit, researchers presented the progress of their respective research activities within OBIWAN. UTC shared recent advances in anaerobic digestion process modelling, while Certech pre

📢 Another OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project related article is available! Partners from Ghent University under the lead of prof. Kevin Van Geem ( Laboratory for Chemical Technology ) have made a publication on data-driven multiphase flow reactor modeling. This review categorizes several state-of-the approaches with particular emphasis on cross-scale learning for developing data models, as well as on emerging architectures. Challenges in data availability, interpretability,

♻️ From organic waste to valuable chemical resources. The OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project converts biogas from organic waste streams into chemical building blocks, enabling circular chemical value chains. Our associated partner Catalisti posted an article about the OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project on their website. 👉 Want to know more? Read the full article here . #InterregFWVL #biogas #sustainability