LIFE24 Welcome Meeting

Circular Economy and Quality of Life

Thematic Session: 22 October 2025

Comet Meetings Louise, Place Stéphanie 20, 1050 Brussels

TIME

TOPIC / CONTENT

SPEAKER

08:30 - 09:15

Registration of participants & Networking breakfast (ground floor)

09:15 - 09:25

Join the plenary room (5.4, 5th floor)

09:25 - 09:30

Welcome to the LIFE Programme

Anne Burrill (CINEA)

09:30 - 09:50

Key reminders to start well your projects

César Seoánez (CINEA)

09:50 - 10:30

Succeeding as LIFE coordinator – Insights from project coordinators with prior LIFE experience

Carme Bosch Suades, Eurecat - Project LIFE24-ENV-ES-InBioSoil

María Reinoso Rodríguez, Aqualia - Project LIFE24-ENV-ES-LIFE smallWAT

Feliu Sempere Nácher, Global Omnium Medioambiente - Project LIFE24-ENV-ES-LIFE GreenCouple

10:30-10:40

Meet your Project Adviser & Instructions for Thematic group sessions

Fabio Leone (CINEA)

Theoharis Tziovaras (ELMEN)

10:40-10:50

Moving to Break-out rooms

Water group (Room 5.1): Malgorzata Piecha and Federico De Filippi (CINEA); Sophia Papageorgiou (ELMEN)

Chemicals, Air & Noise, Soil group (Room 5.2): Manuel Montero Ramirez and Mario Lionetti (CINEA); Josefa Diamantopoulos (ELMEN)

CE-Materials & industrial processes (stay in Room 5.4): Piedad Rivas and César Seoanez (CINEA); Carlo Ponzio (ELMEN)

CE-Municipal & biowaste (stay in Room 5.4): Milina Schumannova and Michel Quicheron (CINEA); Borja Domínguez (ELMEN)

10:50 - 11:20 (all groups except Chemicals, Air & Noise, Soil)

10:50 - 12:20 (Chemicals, Air & Noise, Soil, with break below)

Policy context and latest developments per thematic group - Q&A

Delivered by DG ENV representatives

Water group: Paulus Arnoldus

Circular Economy (both groups): Vincenzo Gente

Chemicals, Air & Noise, Soil group:

  • Air & Noise (10:50-11:20):Wilhelmus de Wilt
  • Chemicals (11:50-12:05): Fatima Darago
  • Soil (12:05-12:20):Bavo Peeters

11:20 - 11:50

Coffee break - Networking

Groups CE-Materials & industrial processes and CE-Municipal & biowaste separate into different rooms:

CE-Materials & industrial processes group stays in Room 5.4

CE-Municipal & biowaste group moves to Room 5.5

11:50 - 13:30 (all groups except Chemicals, Air & Noise, Soil)

12:20 - 13:30 (Chemicals, Air & Noise, Soil)

Thematic group discussions

Project presentations; session and discussion by facilitators (see below)

13:30 - 14:30

Networking lunch (1st floor)

14:30 - 17:00

Thematic Group discussions (cont.)

When group discussions finish, project representatives are free to stay in COMET (up until 18:00) to further network with CINEA staff, external monitors and other projects

PROJECT DISTRIBUTION TO WORKING GROUPS FOR THE THEMATIC SESSIONS

WORKING GROUP Water. 5th floor, Room 5.1

Facilitators:

CINEA Project Advisers: Malgorzata Piecha and Federico De Filippi

ELMEN Technical Monitor: Sophia Papageorgiou

Project reference and title

Speaker(s)

LIFE24-ENV-ES-LIFE
smallWATAdvanced Technological and Bioelectrochemical Modular Wetlands for water regeneration and nutrient recovery in small populations

Enrique Romero Frasca,
María Reinoso Rodríguez

LIFE24-ENV-NL-LIFE SWITCH2O
Sustainable Wastewater Innovation Towards Circular H2O

Sybren Gerbens

LIFE24-PRE-UA-LIFE-U-SPRING
LIFE Ukrainian Urban Water Management Capability Springboard

Volodymyr Vorobey

LIFE24-ENV-LV-LIFE RiverFlow
Sustaining Latvia's Aquatic Ecosystems - Solutions for Hydrological and Morphological Restoration

Linda Fibiga

LIFE24-ENV-PT-LIFE REVIVE
Innovative and integrated solutions to mitigate hydro morphological pressures and enhance ecological status in the Lima and Vouga basins

Carlos M. Alexandre

LIFE24-GIE-ES-LIFE-NITRAZENS
Supporting Nitrate Governance through Citizen-Engaging Tools

Raquel Hernández Ruiz

LIFE24-GIE-ES-LIFE FloodProof
Multi-actor cooperation and knowledge-based decision-making to improve flood risk management in urban areas along the Segura River Basin

Isabel Serna

LIFE23-IPE-EE-LIFE SIP WET-EST
Enabling collaborative efforts for systemic change in Estonian River Basin Management

Mari Sepp

 

WORKING GROUP Chemicals, Air & Noise, Soil. 5th floor, Room 5.2

Facilitators:

CINEA Project Advisers: Manuel Montero Ramírez and Mario Lionetti

ELMEN Technical Monitor: Josefa Diamantopoulos

Project reference and title

Speaker(s)

LIFE24-ENV-IT-LIFE LAERTHES
Low Air pollutant hybrid-Electric Revolutionary Tomato Harvester Empowering Sustainability of non-road mobile machinery

Riccardo Marini

LIFE24-ENV-ES-LIFE REAMINE
Sustainable solutions for NMVOC emission reduction in foundries through advanced amine recovery

Lucia Unamunzaga

LIFE24-PRE-IT-LIFE4DEGAS
Support for degassing of NMVOCs in EU inland waterway and maritime transport

Manuela Scarsi,
Mario Dogliani

LIFE24-ENV-ES-LIFE PMFree-Ports
Air Quality Improvement and Emission Reduction of PM10/2.5 in Bulk Ports

Tica San Félix,
Emilie Bannier

LIFE24-GIE-ES-LIFE CLEAN-AIR
Collaborative Local and regional Efforts and predictive models for Air quality Improvement and Resilience

Cristhian Jimenez

LIFE24-ENV-IT-LIFE OPTIMUS
Optimised Pavements Towards Innovative Mitigation of Urban noiSe

Raffaella Bellomini

LIFE24-ENV-DK-BIOCARE4LIFE
BIOfabricated cellulose for personal CARE and quality of LIFE

Isabel Alvarez Martos,
Paruntungan Sihombing

LIFE24-ENV-IT-LIFE APOLLO
APples and OLives uv-Light Optimized pest treatment to reduce the use of pesticides

Andrea Ruffin

LIFE24-ENV-SE-LIFE WOODMER
Demonstration of high performing, wood-based biopolymers, that valorizes neglected pulp industry side streams and can replace fossil- and food-based polymers including hazardous PFAS chemicals.

Petri Oinonen

LIFE24-ENV-ES-LIFE HERMES
Harmonized Efforts for Reducing Mercury Emissions Safely

Javier Carrasco Milara

LIFE24-ENV-ES-InBioSoil
In Situ Bioremediation of Soil: mycoremediation and advanced bioremediation tools to avoid soil excavation

Carme Bosch

 

WORKING GROUP Circular Economy - Materials & industrial processes. 5th floor, Room 5.4

Facilitators:

CINEA Project Advisers: Piedad Rivas Lopez and César Seoanez

ELMEN Technical Monitor: Carlo Ponzio

Project reference and title

Speaker

LIFE24-ENV-IT-LIFE re-WINTER
Winter Industry's New Technologies for Ski Equipment Recycling

Stefano Prosdocimo

LIFE24-ENV-FI-LIFEMODWISE
Leading Innovations for Efficient Multifunctional Optimized Demoline for Wood Insulation and Sustainable Environment

Tuomo Halonen

LIFE24-ENV-ES-SENSE4LIFE
Efficient, low-cost and versatile sensor-based sorting and separation of complex WEEE and ELV plastic waste streams, upcycling them into added-value products for EEE and automotive industry

Pierre Fiasse

LIFE24-ENV-IT-RELIFE4PCBA
efurbishment LIFECycle Management Platform for PCBA

Manuel Lobati

LIFE24-ENV-IT-SiRcular
Industrial Recycling Solutions for Silicon and Silver from EoL Photovoltaic Panels

Francesco Vegliòk

LIFE24-ENV-BE-CEMLOOP XL
Large-scale commercial demonstration of circular, low carbon cement and fibre cement production through fibre cement waste recycling and CCU

Loïc Roelandts

LIFE24-ENV-SE-Ceilings4LIFE
High Performing Eco-Comfort Acoustic Ceiling Solutions from Recycled Low Carbon Mineral Wool

Ola Karlsson

LIFE24-ENV-IT-LIFE PHOENIX-WEEE
Development of an industrial process for upgrading the end-of-life treatment of washing machines through regeneration of spare parts and ready-to-use washing machines

Eugenio Vecchi

LIFE24-ENV-NL-LIFE BIOMATINE
Implementing biobased materials and solutions for the insulation of Energy-inefficient buildings

Daan Jongejan

LIFE24-ENV-AT-abatoncircular
Demonstration of the Automated, CO2 Neutral & Circular Production of Radiant Heating and Cooling Panels with Humidity Control from Recycled Inputs.

Benedikt Goehmann

LIFE24-PRE-FR-LIFE D2R-GreenUA
LIFE Debris2Resource: Green Recovery Ukraine

Roman Puchko

 

WORKING GROUP Circular Economy - Municipal & biowaste. 5th floor, Room 5.5

Facilitators:

CINEA Project Advisers: Milina Schumannova and Michel Quicheron

ELMEN Technical Monitor: Borja Dominguez

Project reference and title

Speaker(s)

LIFE24-ENV-ES-LIFE GreenCouple
Sustainable biogas purification by integration of a nature-based solution for digestate centrate treatment with biological H2S removal

Feliu Sempere Nacher

LIFE24-ENV-NL-SLUDGE2VALUELIFE
Carbon-negative energy-positive process to convert sludge from wastewater treatment plants into valuable bio-products

Levien de Legé

LIFE23-IPE-PL-LIFE Pom GOZilla.PL
Implementation of the Waste Management Plan for the Pomorskie Voivodeship taking into account the hierarchy of handling municipal waste and the principles of circular economy

Paulina Górska, Kamila Szmidt

LIFE24-ENV-AT-Waste4Growth
Valorization of insect frass and chitinous byproducts as high-value biostimulating organic fertilizer

Jana Vasickova

LIFE24-ENV-EL-LIFE-INOFEED
Innovative Onsite Treatment of Food Related Wastes for Viable Production of Animal Feed

Ioannis Grammatikakis

LIFE24-GIE-BE-EU-SUPERMARKETS LIFE
Superlist - Reducing the EU Food System’s Environmental Impact by Publicly Benchmarking, Monitoring and Stimulating Supermarkets' Sustainability Policies and Actions

Sarah Braeye

LIFE24-GIE-ES-LIFE FERTI-WISE
Scaling up the use of Nutrient Management Tools towards the Farm to Fork Strategy governance through an on-farm experimentation scheme

Asier Uribeetxebarria

LIFE24-PRE-ES-LIFE4EPR
LIFE4EPR – towards harmonized Extended Producer Responsibility schemes across the EU

Rosaria Chifari

LIFE24-PRE-DE-FairTHRIVE
FairTHRIVE: Empowering Businesses to Thrive Fairly Under the EUDR

Fernanda Martinelli