Circul-A-Bility

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Food packaging enables storage, protection, communication and convenience. Today, it must also enable sustainability, circularity and the reduction of food loss and waste.

Research Areas

Sustainability and Environment

Department

Applied Life Sciences

The CIRCUL-A-BILITY project goes beyond the state of the art and addresses both technical and non-technical hurdles to the implementation of sustainable food packaging and circular food supply chains. This food-specific, targeted measure is therefore of central importance in the debate on sustainable packaging. It makes it possible to exchange data on interactions between food and packaging and to focus on consumer behaviour.

CIRCUL-A-BILITY is thus building a Europe-wide network of stakeholders in all aspects of food packaging. The network extends from materials and food science to the manufacturing and filling industry, consumer research and political decision-makers. The aim is to harmonise and integrate research in this area, exchange information, support the industry in implementing sustainable alternatives and set up working groups that can provide science-based recommendations to consumers, user groups, policy makers and the industry.

Research Goals

To valorise current technological progress
Accelerating the creation of prototypes that go beyond the interests of individuals and benefit Europe
Avoiding duplication of research work
Accelerating technology transfer and entrepreneurship
Increasing the scientific capacity and research ranking of COST working members

Cooperation partners and clients

Main applicant: DK
Network: Heads of Administrative Units, AT, BE, BG, DE, DK, EL, ES, FI, HU, IL, IS, IT, LT, LV, MK, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, SI, SK, TR, UK
International partner countries: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, United States