Waste prevention funding for packaging collection and recycling systems — MINRES

Project duration: 1.1.2017 to 31.12.2018

The bachelor's degree programme in Packaging Technology is the first packaging-specific training programme at university level in Austria to be developed in collaboration with companies. Optimum product protection with minimal use of packaging or "as little as possible, as much as necessary" is the credo. 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.

• 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

Financed by the waste prevention promotion of the collection and recycling systems for packaging

Sustainability and Packaging Research

Since 1 August 2020, five interdisciplinary research areas have replaced existing research fields.