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BIOFAIRNET partner UNIFE participated in the ICA CCR Global Research Conference—Intercooperation for our common futures—held at HEC Montréal, Canada, 8–11 July 2025. Marking the United Nations International Year of Cooperatives, the 5th global edition spotlighted how collaboration across research, practice, and policy can drive justice, sustainability, and shared prosperity.
The workshop “Energy recovery from waste” was held by BIOFAIRNET project partner University of the Aegean under the framework of the 19th International Conference on Environmental Science & Technology (CEST) - a leading forum established in 1989 where top experts, scientists, entrepreneurs, and public-sector representatives present state-of-the-art research on current and emerging environmental challenges.
On Thursday, 4 September 2025, BioFairNet took the stage at the International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology (CEST 2025), hosting the workshop Energy Recovery from Waste in Room Panacea at 11:30 a.m. As one of Europe’s leading environmental science forums, CEST provides a unique platform where researchers, innovators, and policy actors converge to exchange solutions for a more sustainable future. BioFairNet’s contribution to this year’s programme highlighted how waste valorisation can become a cornerstone of the green and just transition.
On May 28, 2025, the third CleanTech Innovation Summit took place at the Cleantech Innovation Park in Hallstadt, Germany. Under the headline “Cleantech as a game changer - sustainable innovation for tomorrow”, around 200 experts from business, science and politics came together to discuss pioneering technologies and sustainable solutions.
On 17 July 2025, the leaders of all Work Packages in the BIOFAIRNET project gathered online for an Executive Board Meeting.
BIOFAIRNET partner UNIFE took part in the ICA CCR Europe Conference held in Helsinki, Finland (12–13 June 2025), a flagship gathering for scholars and practitioners advancing cooperative research. Organised by the University of Eastern Finland in cooperation with the University of Helsinki, this year’s edition embraced the United Nations International Year of Cooperatives with the theme “Cooperative Identity – Who are we as a movement, as a form of organization and as cooperators?”
In the framework of the 2025 International Year of Cooperatives, the BIOFAIRNET Work Package 1 (WP1) team travelled to Trento to take part in the International Research Colloquium on Cooperatives, organised by EURICSE in collaboration with the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA CCR), EMES International Research Network, CIRIEC International, and the University of Trento.
The BIOFAIRNET project was featured during the morning session on 5 June 2025 at the 2nd International Conference on the Renaissance in Economics, hosted at the University of Florence as part of the Festival Nazionale dell’Economia Civile.