Conference "Let’s innovate (sustainably) together: Collaboration for Circular Bioeconomy Solutions"

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“Let’s innovate (sustainably) together: Collaboration for Circular Bioeconomy Solutions." 

Moderator Evelin Loit-Harro, Professor of Sustainable Agriculture

9.00-9.30 Registration and coffee

9.30-9.40 Opening of the conference

     Ülle Jaakma, Rector of the Estonian University of Life Sciences

“Food”

9.40-10.00 Importance and possibilities of plant-based by-products’ valorisation – Reelika Rätsep, Researcher of Sustainable Food Production

10.00-10.20 Industrial innovation in practice – Fibes – Sulev Nõmmann, CEO of KODAS

10.20-11.00 Food waste management through the eyes of EMU foreign students

“Sustainable Campus”

11.00-11.20 Campus biodiversity “To mow or not to mow?”– Marika Kose, Senior Lecturer of Nature Tourism

11.20-11.40 Campus carbon “Where it comes and what we know about it?” – Ahto Kangur, Chair professor at the Chair of Forest management planning and Wood Processing Technologies

11.40-12.00 Campus as a student´s home “Growing green minds and communities”

– Roland Aik Kask, CEO of Rohemu Campus

12.00-13.00 LUNCH

 “Wood”

13.00-13.20 Wood - to be or not to be burnt, that is the question – Sharib Khan, Junior Researcher in the group of biomass valorisation and biorefining

13.20-13.40 Wood valorisation – Fibenol case study – Gert Preegel, Lignin and MCC sales engineer at Fibenol

13.40-14.00 Presentation from the representative of the research-intensive business

14.00-15.20 Panel discussion – Next step: implementation?

Sulev Nõmmann - CEO of KODAS

Mait Kriipsalu - Professor of Water Protection and Waste Management, EMÜ

Timo Kikas - Professor of Biosystems Engineering, EMÜ

Sigrid Rajalo - Director of Innovation and Technology Department, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications

15.20 Conclusion

Contact: Sille Rebane, [email protected], tel 5611 1702.