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
Summer School on Plastic Recycling
Want to know more about plastic recycling, from lab to industry? Then the next summer school organised by the consortium of NATURE-EID is made for you! The event will take place in San Sebastian, Spain, on October 4 to 5. On the 4th of October, the Plastic Recycling Meeting will gather industrial and academic experts […]
Our students winning the best poster prizes at Circular Economy symposium
⭐ Back to work with good news! ⭐ This week our ESRs, Gabriela Garbonova and Bige Bati participated in the Circular Chemical Economy Summer School organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry in Newcastle and won the first and second prizes for the best poster! Congratulations!
Postgraduate Symposium of the School of Chemistry the University of Birmingham
Last week, our ESRs, Claire and Flore participated in the Postgraduate Symposium of the University of Birmingham. In a poster, they presented their work on the development of innovative bio-sourced polymers initiated at Polykey and currently carried out in the group of Andrew Dove at the University of Birmingham. The students were happy to share […]
3rd workshop on communication skills held in San Sebastian
The ESRs of the NATURE project together with students from POLYMAT attended a very nice workshop on communication skills delivered by Juan José Sáenz de la Torre Lasierra from Agata Communications. They learned tips on communicating through social networks, how to write articles adapted to their audience, outreach formats, or how to improve the design […]
Training on Life Cycle Analysis
Last week the second NATURE network-wide training took place at the University of Birmingham . Dr. Olivier Talon, from Materia Nova (Belgium), imparted a very interesting training entitled ” Introduction to Life Cycle Assessment”. Over 2 days, our ESRs learnt the basics of the LCA metodology. Why is it necessary? How can we perform it? How can […]