Waste prevention funding for packaging collection and recycling systems

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The bachelor's degree programme in packaging technology is the first university-level course in Austria specifically focused on packaging that has been developed in collaboration with industry. The credo is optimal product protection with minimal use of packaging, or ‘as little as possible, as much as necessary’.

Department

Applied Life Sciences

As part of the MINRES project (Minimising the use of resources in packaging), knowledge in this future-oriented field is being further expanded. The centrepiece is a teaching concept for resource minimisation that takes into account and links the areas of packaging development and production, quality management and the impact on filling goods. The first resulting courses will start in the summer semester of 2017.

Research Goals

Development of the subject area "Minimising the use of resources in packaging" in the Section Packaging and Resource Management
Development and creation of a cross-course and cross-semester integrative teaching and learning concept Development - practical and application-oriented learning based on case studies
Definition of course content that goes beyond the conventional curriculum, assignment to courses and creation of documents
Further development of the relevant methodological expertise as well as research and development expertise "Resource efficiency and waste prevention in waste management"
Topic-specific expansion of the company network
Presentations, publications and training for companies in the packaging and food industry as well as the food trade
Awareness-raising and best-practice models together with practice partners