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📢 Following our joint Interreg France–Wallonie–Vlaanderen workshop, bringing together the sister projects VALCELMAT, COMPOVERT and OBIWAN, we’re pleased to share the presentations from our inspiring day in Tourcoing! 🌱🌍♻️ From cellulose modification and plant-fibre composites to circular biorefineries and industrial-scale organics recovery, our speakers explored a wide range of innovations and opportunities for connecting value chains in a circular and bio-based economy. �

🌱Our partner Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC) / UniLaSalle offers an internship position of 6 months at their premises in Beauvais, starting from February 1st 2027. 🎓 The position is open to engineering or master students (process, environmental, chemical biotech) with lab experience, knowledge of anaerobic digestion and C1 in French or English. Interested to join the OBIWAN Project and operate a pilot-scale anaerobic digester, analyze the biogas composition an

💥Connecting value chains for a circular and bio-based economy Last Thursday, the sister projects VALCELMAT, COMPOVERT and OBIWAN came together in Tourcoing for a joint Interreg France-Wallonie-Vlaanderen workshop dedicated to exploring cross-border opportunities for a more circular and bio-based economy. 🌱🌍♻️ The day brought together expertise, ideas and perspectives from research, industry and the innovation ecosystem, creating valuable opportunities to exchange knowledge

The countdown is on! The sister projects VALCELMAT, COMPOVERT and OBIWAN are looking forward to welcoming you next week for our joint Interreg France-Wallonie-Vlaanderen workshop on connecting value chains in a circular and bio-based economy. 🎤 Discover our programme and speakers: Frédéric Merle - EuraMaterials Joël David - Interreg Region Hauts-de-France, introducing the Interreg France-Wallonie-Vlaanderen programme Alexis Spalletta & Patrick Martin - Université d'Artois, p

Our joint Interreg France-Wallonie-Vlaanderen workshop, bringing together the sister projects ValCelMat, COMPOVERT and OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project, is taking shape — and we’re excited to share the final programme with you! Across the day, we’ll explore cross-border innovation and the challenges and opportunities of connecting value chains in a circular and bio-based economy, with contributions from: 🔹 MERLE FREDERIC – EuraMaterials 🔹 Joël DAVID – Interreg Région Hauts-de-F

The sister projects ValCelMat, COMPOVERT and OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project are making the final arrangements to welcome you to their joint workshop where we will introduce you to our cross-border activities and discuss about the challenges and opportunities which lay ahead for connecting the value chains in a circular and bio-based economy! ☘️🌍♻️💡🤝 📅 When? Thursday 08/10/2026, 10:00 - 16:30 (CET) 🌍 Where? EuraMaterials (Tourcoing, France) Meet our speakers: - Alexis Spa

The Interreg France-Wallonie-Vlaanderen sister projects ValCelMat, COMPOVERT and OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project are pleased to invite you to their joint workshop where we will introduce you to our cross-border activities and discuss about the challenges and opportunities which lay ahead for connecting the value chains in a circular and bio-based economy! ☘️🌍♻️💡🤝 We are pleased to introduce you already to two of our guest speakers: - Christophe Sence - Responsible for busines

📝 A new OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project related publication by Hamed Hoorijani is out! Partners from Ghent University under the lead of prof. Kevin Van Geem and prof. Yi Ouyang (Laboratory for Chemical Technology) have made a publication on the mechanisms, challenges and emerging directions related to the modeling of catalyst particle evolution in gas-solid reactors with CFD-DEM. This work provides insight into modeling gas-solid catalytic processes and underscores the urgent n

🎬 Our second series of guest lectures - joint Interreg France-Wallonie-Vlaanderen edition - has now been transformed into a webinar and published on our website! 🤝 These guest lectures were a joint effort from the sister projects OBIWAN Interreg FWVL Project, ValCelMat and COMPOVERT 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. ☘️ Intere

🔗🗺️Bridging Regions, Connecting Value Chains: Cross-border Solutions for a Circular and Bio-Based Economy ☘️🌍♻️💡🤝 📢The Interreg France-Wallonie-Vlaanderen sister projects ValCelMat, COMPOVERT and OBIWAN are pleased to invite you to their joint workshop where we will introduce you to our cross-border activities and discuss about the challenges and opportunities which lay ahead for connecting the value chains in a circular and bio-based economy! 📅 When? Thursday 08/10/20

💥 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

🎤 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 Teams 🕓