GOAL >>> Developing strategies and projects to reduce and reuse waste for sustainable agriculture to zero waste. “Feeding the planet” means growing food needs in a high population growth rate. This growth of food production is leading also to rapid increase waste generation in agro-food sector that may get to a public health risks, adverse environmental impacts as well as socio-economic problems. Therefore the reciclyng and reutilization of Agricultural waste becomes an emergent priority for feeding the human life. This become a responsible culture if we will not only decrease natural resource use and implement the environmental degradation, but viceversa we will ensure a sustainable future for coming generations. The conference in Florence would deal about the paradigm shift for linear to cycle -economy, focus on resource recycling and reuse of agricultural waste that must become the primary method of dealing with Agro-food-waste. The conference is organized by EGOCREANET, in collaboration with Euro Info Centre (member of Enterprise Europe Network) and other subjects that will be progressively involved, will be held on 29 and April 30, 2015 First day : On April 29 a Pre-meeting (- by invitation to organize a consotium for next Calls H-2016-20 on Circular Economy) c /o The Tuscany Region in P. Unita ‘N. 1 in Florence ON April 30, 2015 Conference (open to public) c / o AUDITORIUM dell ‘ECRF in via F.Portinari 5r. Firenze. NB. → The Participation is free . Scientific Commitee : Prof. Luigi Nicolais . President of Italian CNR. Prof. Giampiero Maracchi. President of Accademia dei Georgofili -Firenze Prof. Paolo Nannipieri : Director of Agro-Food & Environment -University of Florence , Dr. Marco Masi :Coordinator ofArea University and Research -Tuscany Region, → More information and requests and collaboration proposals can be sent to: – Paolo Manzelli EGOCREANET – Marcello Traversi EUROSPORTELLO Motivation –> “Circular Economy” , means a system efficiency of the use of resources, in which the end products of a phase of production become the origin of a subsequent phase of co- and by-products, resulting in a diagram, precisely , cyclic. The model can be advantageously applied in the complex processes of agricultural and food products, using waste of agro-food processes for increased productivity by creating nutraceutical products and to obtain and less environmental impact, minimizing any form of waste that pollute the main natural resources (water, air and fertility of the land). –> EGOCREANET, as organizer and promoter of this event, aims to encourage companies in the food and agriculture sector to innovate by applying the criteria and perspectives of creativity in circular economy, through the creation of working groups, aimed at sharing the issues of greatest interest to develop European and International projects, looking at the financial opportunities of the calls on- Horizon Framework -2016-2020. The main objective of the Conference in Florence will be to create a “think tank” to aggregate skills and creative abilities of companies and research for sustainable development of the Regional territories in Europe, towards a culture of saving, reusing and recycling within the agro- food area. The event aims to contribute to rethink the sustainability of production chains through developing an integrity between agro-food and nutraceutical production, so as to achieve an innovative thinking design based on self-sustainable energy and zero-waste recycling. The two day’s program will include: technical-scientific interventions of University and CNR and ENEA and innovative agri-food companies, a panel discussion and testimonies about European best practices, to analyze and discuss models, technologies and solutions to “change direction” in the traditional linear logic of developmental sustainability ‘in economics and society: The goals of that meetings in summary are: – Reduce and reuse agricultural waste , ( olive oil ,grapes/wine, vegetable and fruit production ) – Enhancing waste and transformation in nutraceutical resources Interlinking resources – Optimize water management and Reduce energy consumption – Producing alternative energy from renewable sources – Favoring integrity between food and nutraceutical & functional-food co-production

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