David San Martín from AZTI (coordinator of the project) attended last Monday and Tuesday the LIFE food waste platform meeting held in Budapest (Hungary). The meeting was hosted by the National Food Chain Safety Office Hungary and the beneficiary of the project LIFE-FOODWASTEPREV (LIFE15 GIE/HU/001048). The Hungarian Agriculture Minister, Dr. István Nagy welcomed the participants and […]
The main aims of LIFE Brewery were presented to LIFE Aquapef consortium members in its ‘Kick-off meeting’ held in AZTI Derio last Thursday. The main objective of the AQUAPEF project is to promote the implementation of the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) initiative and methodology into the Mediterranean aquaculture sector by developing an integrative methodology and tool […]
David San Martín from AZTI (coordinator of the project) is attending the 6th International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management. This international event is holding from 13th to 16th June in Naxos island (Greece). The objectives of the Life Brewery project are being presented through a scientific oral communication. This conference aims to address the […]
Yesterday, 5th of June, Anna-Maria De Smet (‘The Brewers of Europe’) presented Life Brewery project to the EBC Brewing Science Group in its 12th Technical meeting in Brussels. This event is being celebrated within the framework of the 1st Brewers of Europe Forum. The aim of this Forum is to bring the latest trends straight from […]
Last Wednesday, March 14, the first stakeholders’ meeting was held at the headquarters of The Brewers of Europe in Brussels. In addition to projects’ partners, a wide representation of each sector attended the meeting. Among the agents represented were the brewers themselves, some national associations, by-product valorizators and aquaculture companies. All of them showed a […]
On 14/03/2018, the first stakeholder’s meeting of Life Brewery project will be held at the ‘The Brewers of Europe’s headquarters in Brussels. This meeting aims to gather the value chain agents of brewery and aquaculture sectors to contrast the final objectives of the project and to identify all the key aspects that will allow that […]
38 students of 3rd year secondary education (ESO) from San Fidel school (Gernika) visited AZTI in Derio to learn more about the Life Brewery project and how to prevent, reuse and manage food waste. This visit was organized within the celebration of 25th anniversary of LIFE programme. The LIFE programme is the EU’s funding instrument […]
Last 21st of November, AZTI’s technicians participated in an event to celebrate the ‘Aquaculture day’. This event seeks to transfer to society the importance of aquaculture in our country and its commitment to sustainable development, research and creating of wealth and well-being in rural and coastal areas. Organized by the official Basque’s college of biologists […]
The Life Brewery coordinator, David San Martín (AZTI) attended the 5th Total Food international congress in Norwich (England). Total Food 2017 was a series of international conferences which focused on the sustainable exploitation of agri-food co-products and related biomass, thereby helping to minimise waste. Under the auspices of the Royal Society of Chemistry (Food Group), […]
The sixteenth edition of the Sardinia Symposium, organized by the IWWG – International Waste Working Group, was held in Forte Village, Santa Margherita di Pula (Cagliari) Italy, from October 2nd to October 6th, 2017. The event was attended by 676 participants (researchers, technicians, administrators and operators) with the presentation of more than 550 scientific papers, […]