The UBE Chair in Sustainable Plastics of the UJI distinguishes the best master's thesis on plastics sustainability



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## The UBE Chair in Sustainable Plastics of the UJI distinguishes the best master's thesis on plastics sustainability

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The UBE Chair in Sustainable Plastics of the Universitat Jaume I has awarded the 1st UBE Plastics Sustainability Awards at a ceremony attended by the vice-rector for Innovation, Transfer and Scientific Dissemination, David Cabedo; the president of UBE, Bruno de Bievre; the director of the Chair, Luis Cabedo, and Raül Sangròs Ferrís, co-director of the Chair and R&D Director of UBE Corporation Europe.

In this first edition of the awards, the winning projects are two master's thesis. The first prize, worth 1,000 euros, has been awarded to the work entitled "Development, compatibilisation and characterisation of wood imitating plastics with biopolyethylene matrix and argan shell meal" by Jaume Gómez Caturla from the Universitat Politècnica de València, while the second prize of 500 euros went to Flore Kilens of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) for the work "Optimisation of the polycondensation of diols into polyether polyols organocatalyzed by acid-base mixtures for pc".

During the prize-giving ceremony, the vice-rector for Innovation, Transfer and Scientific Dissemination, David Cabedo, stressed that this is an initiative aimed at promoting research and innovation in the field of sustainability of plastics and in the broader framework of promoting circular economy. "In this sense, we can say that this initiative is a contribution of important value to reduce what is known as 'skills gap', in reference to the lack of adequate staff or technologies needed for the transformation of value chains", he said.

Likewise, the director of the UBE Chair in Sustainable Plastics, Luis Cabedo, remarked that the aim of this call was to reward those academic works that, due to their quality, are excellent in the field of the Chair's topic and stressed the commitment of researchers to improving the problems of plastics in the environment. Cabedo also thanked the collaboration of the evaluation committee made up of Luis T. Oriol Langa, professor of the University of Valencia. Oriol Langa, professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Zaragoza and president of the Specialised Polymer Group of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry; José Carlos Rodríguez Cabello, professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Valladolid, and Haritz Sardón Muguruza, senior lecturer of Physical Chemistry at the University of the Basque Country.

In turn, Bruno de Bievre, president of UBE Corporation Europe, recognised the importance of supporting talent and emphasised "the importance of rigorous research and the connection of science with the practical side that affects us all on a daily basis".

Finally, the attendees agreed on the positive action of the Chair to extend the awards not only to students and research staff of the UJI and to open them to the knowledge generated in all universities, which enriches the activities of the UBE Chair in Sustainable Plastics.

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