Barbara newsletter issue 2

Apart from the first official video of the project, already visible in the website and all social media, two new videos have been added to the Barbara Project Youtube channel. The first video shows coordinator Dr. Berta Gonzalvo, coordinator of the project, and Dr. Lidia García (Tecnopackaging) explaining the rationale and overall concept of the project. The interviews were shot during the M6 meeting of the project at the University of Alicante.

Last week, the 2nd meeting of the Barbara consortium took place in Stockholm, Sweden, at the premises of the Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, KTH). The meeting gathered all partners in the project, to update each other on the progress of all work packages and the results as for the 12 month of the project, as well as to discuss and plan for the following months of work.

JEC World 2018 is deemed the biggest and most important world show dedicated to composites market. From raw material to processors and end-users, JEC World attracts each year in Paris, over 40,000 professionals looking for innovation, new partners and insight on their industry’s future.

The French Bioeconomy Cluster is this year in charge of organizing the global Conference dedicated to Processes and Technologies Applied to Biomass, which will be held in Strasbourg, France in March 3^th-6^th.

This Wednesday and Thursday, Dr. Lidia García presented project BARBARA at the 5^th Edition of  ACI’s  European Biopolymer Summit in Dusseldorf, Germany. The two day event was specially designed to bring together senior executives, key industry experts, researchers and bioplastic manufacturers, to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of bio-environmental polymer engineering, most recent innovations, trends and concern as well as solutions adopted in the sector.