Projet CUPOLA (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Plastic pollution in the ocean causes severe damage to marine life and raises growing global environmental concerns. The harm to marine life and pollution to the ecosystem is devastating our oceans and is causing negative connections to human health. According to EU Legislation Research, an estimated 9 to 23 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans every year, and the associated cost is between €485 million and €1,259 million. The recent Covid-19 pandemic has led to a significant increase in demand for single-use plastic, aggravating the long-lasting marine waste problem with an estimated 1.56 billion face masks have entered oceans in 2020 and even more in 2021. This project aims to develop sustainable, scalable, and profitable waste management processes for marine plastics. The automated plastic waste management and product innovation processes aim for environmental sustainability. Extensive training and knowledge exchange activities will be carried out among the world-leading scientist group through a total of 160 person-months of structured staff exchanges between 15 research institutes. The scientists in this group share the common objective to develop the CUPOLA processes for marine plastic waste recycling. Thermal and thermochemical conversion technologies will be applied to produce high-value marketable products. Full process modelling, techno-economic and life cycle analysis will be carried out to provide vital information about the feasibility of the novel process. CUPOLA will create a multi-disciplinary consortium consisting of process engineers, chemists, environmental scientists, and process modellers, and develop the innovative and economic waste-to-product process, closing the gap in the circular economy. It will produce multiple avenues for career development, cross-sectorial experience, and academic training in a multi-cultural, interdisciplinary and intersectoral environment, and lead to achieving SDGs 3, 12 and 14.

Mots clés : marine plastic litter, chemical recycling

Participants :
- Université Queen's de Belfast (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Jiao-tong de Shanghai (Chine) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Manchester (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Ivl environmental technologies (beijing) company ltd (Chine) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Institute of urban environment, chinese academy of sciences (Chine) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université polytechnique de Hong Kong (Hong Kong) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Tsinghua (Chine) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- École polytechnique de Silésie (Pologne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 64400.0 €
- Université de Swansea (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- University College Dublin (Irlande) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 55200.0 €
- University College Cork (Irlande) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 32200.0 €
- Université des sciences et technologies de Huazhong (Chine) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université du Zhejiang (Chine) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Taylor's (Malaisie) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Aston (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- École des mines et de la métallurgie de Cracovie (Pologne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 105800.0 €
- University of Nottingham Ningbo China (Chine) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Jiaotong de Xi’an (Chine) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €