Horizon Europe subsidizes ambitious research projects
EU Tool for Innovation & Research
Horizon Europe is the European Union's most effective instrument for funding innovation and research. Its main objectives are to boost Europe's scientific leadership and industrial competitiveness. It does this by addressing 'grand challenges' such as green and digital transformation, sustainable growth and social well-being.
This ambitious programme is the largest of its kind in the world, with a total budget of more than €95 billion.
These objectives are translated into calls for projects around a specific theme. The current themes are clear: the circular economy and the shift to bio-based products. Within the circular economy, calls have been made for collection, sorting, separation and recycling. But also eco-design, the introduction of new business models and services are being considered.
Centexbel is actively involved in such projects. Typically, we are participating in projects with around 10-15 partners, including research organisations and companies.
CisuFLO
CISUFLO’s overarching goal is to significantly reduce the environmental footprint of the EU floorcovering sector by implementing a comprehensive, systemic framework for circular and sustainable floor coverings that accounts for both technical feasibility and socio-economic factors.
CENTEXBEL is the project coordinator.
Belgian companies UNILIN, BIG and DECEUNINCK are also involved. DECEUNINCK and BIG are working to identify the best ways to use recycled PVC in their products.
The project is therefore an important step for BIG on its journey towards circular and sustainable flooring. UNILIN is leading the way in recycling wooden boards used for laminates. They have successfully completed a pilot installation for recycling MDF boards back to wood fibres, demonstrating their commitment to closed-loop recycling.
BIG's path to circular and sustainable flooring
UNILIN: recycling wooden boards used for laminates
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 101003893.
tExtended
The tExtended Project will develop and demonstrate effective textiles recovery, waste valorisation and recycling processes. These will be combined with digital tools and data-driven solutions to support the sustainable circularity of textiles and maximise its impact.
CENTEXBEL is leading the Belgian use case, which consists of De Kringloopwinkel Deltagroep, PURFI and UTEXBEL.
All four Belgian partners are working together to increase textile recycling.
Each partner has a specific focus: collection and sorting for De Kringloopwinkel, mechanical recycling for PURFI, production of workwear with recycled fibres for UTEXBEL and thermomechanical recycling of polyester for CENTEXBEL.
tExtended aims to introduce an innovative approach to the cycling of discarded textiles with the development of a Blueprint, a knowledge-based masterplan for the optimized cycling for different textile flows.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 101091575
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