During May and June 2019, Anna Diaz (ESR 2.2.) participated in the circular economy (CE) learning programme offered by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF) “From linear to circular”. The objective of this program is to provide a global community of practitioners with cutting-edge CE knowledge and skills and bring together an international network of young…
The icRS Conference took place in Adelaide, Australia and served as a platform for researchers and practitioners from around the world, with diverse background and expertise, to share the most recent ideas, outcomes, and practices on resource sustainability. Santiago Perez presented on how to adapt trans-disciplinary methods to the analysis of Industrial Ecology projects in…
ISIE Conference – Beijing, China (July 7-11, 2019) After participating in the ISDRS conference 2019 in Nanjing, seven ESRs (Early Stage Researchers) continued their journey to Beijing to the 10th International Conference on Industrial Ecology. ISIE 2019 consisted of four days full of intriguing parallel sessions consisting of oral presentations, plenary sessions and poster session,…
The ISDRS (International Sustainable Development Research Society) was hosted by the School of Environment at Nanjing University, China. The conference theme ‘Sustaining Resources for the Future’ provided an ideal platform for ESRs to share their initial research results. Topics ranged from literature reviews on the concept of the CE (Circular Economy) to trans-disciplinary methods for discovering…
The summer conferences started with Cresting Researcher Erik Roos Lindgreen attending the Italian LCA Network Conference in Rome. The theme of the conference was ‘Life Cycle Thinking to support mitigation and adaptation strategies to climate change’. The conference was attended by Italian LCA experts from academia, government, industry and consultancy organisations, who presented their work, reflecting…
Cresting ESR Santiago PEREZ, working at the CREIDD research lab at the Université de Technologie de Troyes (UTT), was invited to participate as a guest speaker during the UTT Summer Program. During the 6 weeks of the Summer Program, the students, coming from different disciplines, engaged in a series of lectures and presentations on topics…
Anna Diaz (Cresting Work Package 2.2), who conducts her PhD research at the Institute of System Sciences, Innovation and Sustainability Research (University of Graz, Austria) will be participating in the Ellen MacArthur Foundation programme “From linear to circular” during May and June 2019. The core element of the programme is the development of a circular…
Cresting researchers from the University of Technology of Troyes, University of Hull and the Institute of Systems Sciences, Innovation and Sustainability Research (SIS) at the University of Graz visited Bärenschützklamm, about an hour’s drive from the city of Graz, Austria. Past roaring waterfalls, bizarre rock formations, rare flora and fauna, they hiked through one of…
Tivoli Congress Centre, Lisbon Last Friday Cresting researchers Natacha Klein and Katelin Opferkuch attended a conference titled “Virtuous Circles: Building a Circular Economy in Portugal” hosted by the European Commission in Lisbon. Speakers from Industry and Government, both Portuguese and international, were invited to discuss the present reality of waste management in Portugal in…
Cresting researchers Katelin Opferkuch, Erik Roos Lindgreen and Anna Walker have written a short feature in a newsletter (Page 9) of AISME (Italian Academia for Commodity Sciences), published yesterday. The researchers share their experience of the second Cresting Workshop in Utrecht, Netherlands earlier this year.
