Our Strength
INNOVATIVE TRAINING NETWORK
Enrolment of four PhD students in doctoral programmes
EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL DOCTORATE
Cross-sectoral secondments between academia & industry
MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Complementary knowledge for the development of new bio-sourced plastic materials
Our Project
NATURE is an EU-funded project that will provide training opportunities to early stage researchers to develop new biobased polymeric materials for packaging.
Our Consortium
News
After three years of PhD… ESR 2 Claire Morand
Let’s continue with the introduction of NATURE project’s PhD students. This week is Claire Morand’s turn’s turn! 🌟 Claire comes from France and holds a master’s degree in Materials and Chemistry from ENSMAC in Bordeaux. She started at POLYKEY in September 2021 a doctorate focused on the synthesis of fully bio-based unsaturated polyesters for additive […]
After three years of PhD… ESR1 Flore Kilens
As NATURE-ITN comes to an end, we wanted to take a moment to introduce you to our talented PhD students. Over the past three years, they’ve made remarkable achievements, and we’re excited to share their current work and future aspirations! Let’s start with ESR 1 Flore Kilens! Flore comes from France and did a double […]
Our students Gabriela Garbonova and Bige Bati participating in IUPAC Macro 2024
Last week, our phD students Bige Batı and Gabriela Garbonova participated in the Polymer conference organised by IUPAC at the University of Warwick. They both delivered a great talk on their projects focused on the synthesis of biobased polyesters for packaging applications, which have opened fruitful scientific discussions. Another beautiful event for the polymer science community! Bige and Gabby are part of […]
Claire Morand presented her work in the Polymers for Sustainable Future congress in Prague
In this first week of Summer, our ESR 2 Claire Morand participated in the Polymers for Sustainable Future 2024 conference organised by the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, in Prague, Czech Republic. She delivered a very nice presentation where she provided the most relevant results obtained during her PhD thesis […]
Flore Kilens participated in Polymer 2024 conference in Athens
Last week our ESR 1 Flore Kilens participated in the Polymer 2024 conference in Athens, Greece. She has been able to present the most relevant results obtained during her PhD on biobased co-poly(ester-ether)s with tunable properties for sustainable packaging. 🌱♻️ It was a great meeting of international experts in polymer science and the opportunity to […]
Is a circular economy for polymers possible?
The last seminar of the project NATURE was organised between POLYMAT, POLYKEY, and the Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea on the 22nd and 23rd of May. The event was a real success thanks to the expertise of our international speakers and the numerous questions from the audience. We learned a lot about circularity but […]