We would like to invite you to join us on the Workshop On-line “Food Packaging and Sustainability: Innovation, recycling, eco-Design and LCA studies”, to be held on December 1st to 3rd, 2020. This Workshop integrates the European project “Food PackagIng open courseware for higher Education and Staff of companies (FitNESS)”.
Aims
- Present and discuss food packaging, sustainability, innovation, recycling processes and implications in safety of materials
- Present different tools for Eco-design and Life Cycle Assessment
- Disseminate the FItNess project and the teaching materials available.
Targeted to
- Professionals from food industry and packaging from different sectors, with responsibility in product innovation, research and development and quality control.
- Students in general, and particularly those attending science and engineering programmes in fields where food packaging sustainability is relevant.
PROGRAMME
Erasmus+ project: Food PackagIng open courseware for higher Education and Staff of companies (FitNESS), 01/09/2017 - 31/08/2020
1st December Food Packaging
10:00-10:10 Introduction to the Seminar and FITNESS Project 10h15-10h45 Panorama of food packaging
Dr. Horst-Christian Langowski – TUM and IVV Fraunhofer, Germany
10:50-11:20 Food packaging and shelf life
Dr. Thomas Karbowiak or Massimiliano Gerometta - AgroSupDijon, France
11:25-11:55 Chemical and physical stability of packaging materials
Dr. Mia Kurek – UZAG-PBF, Croatia
12:00-12:30 EU legislation, national regulations, US regulations
Dr. Catherine Loriot – ACTIA-LNE, France
2nd December Innovation and Environmental Issues
10:00-10:30 Innovation in food packaging
Dr. Antonio Martínez-Abad – IATA-CSIC
10:35–11:05 Eco-design of packaging - overview
Dr. Sandra Domenek - Agroparistech, France
11:10-11:40 Overview of methodologies used in Life Cycle Assessment
Dr. Fátima Poças – ESB, Portugal
11:45-12:20 Case studies on application of Eco-design and LCA approaches to packaging systems
Dr. Sandra Domenek - Agroparistech, France
12:20–12:30 Questions and answers
3th December Environmental Issues
10:00-10:30 Environmental impacts of packaging and recycling
Massimiliano Gerometta - AgroSupDijon, France
10:40-11:20 How to achieve food grade quality in recycled post-consumer plastics? Problems and perspectives
Dr. Horst-Christian Langowski – TUM and IVV Fraunhofer, Germany
11:25-11:55 Sustainable packaging or Packaging and sustainability?
Dr. Fátima Poças – ESB, Portugal
12:00-12:30 Tour over the Fitness tools
Dr. Olivier Vitrac - Agroparistech, France
Join us!
If you don´t have a google account, please send name and affilation to mjfabra@iata.csic.es
Deadline for registration: November 25th 2020.