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Below you will find publications about EURECA-PRO and publications related to the research Lighthouse Missions of EURECA-PRO
Publications about EURECA-PRO
Publications about EURECA-PRO
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Teaching and Research in the Digital World
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Hasselt University’s Roadmap to a European University
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Development of a Joint Third Mission Strategy – Challenges and Approaches
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The Humboldtian Model of Higher Education and its Significance for the European University on Responsible Consumption and Production
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Soft Skills and STEM Education: Vision of the European University EURECA-PRO
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Education and Study Concepts at the European University Alliance EURECA-PRO
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Carsten Drebenstedt, Julia Sishchuk*, Luke Palmer, Jan Bongaerts & Kirstin Kleeberg
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The (R)Evolution of European Education Policy: European Higher Education Alliances
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Eight Become One: the EURECA-PRO University Network
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The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 12 is the foundation of the European University on Responsible Consumption and Production consortium (EURECA-PRO). This article introduces the eight EURECA-PRO partner universities: Montanuniversität Leoben (Austria), Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (Germany), Technical University of Crete (Greece), University of León (Spain), Silesian University of Technology (Poland), Mittweida University of Applied Sciences (Germany), University of Petroşani (Romania), and Hasselt University (Belgium). In addition, each university’s role within the alliance and unique research and study programmes are outlined. The synergy created by EURECA-PRO enables the pursuit of an ambitious research agenda with five research “Lighthouse Missions” as well as the implementation of joint study programmes.
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Research Dimension of the European University on Responsible Consumption and Production—EURECA-PRO
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Global environmental changes due to technological progress, the growing population, and the demand for more and more resources are affecting the natural regulatory circuits that control the Earth’s ecosystem. Preventing excessive environmental stress is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity. The signing of the Paris Climate Targets as well as the Sustainable Development Goals set the course for a departure from the current economic and production system. As a contribution to these challenges, the European University on REsponsible Consumption And PROduction (EURECA-PRO) was founded under the umbrella of the European Commission and the Erasmus program. Apart from a strategic education agenda, EURECA-PRO also defined an ambitious research agenda with currently five lighthouse topics which aim at the development of solutions to fight negative global environmental changes. EURECA-PRO uses synergies of a network of seven universities and a series of associated partners from different stakeholder groups.
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EURECA-PRO: The European University on Responsible Consumption and Production
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The European Commission (EC) called for proposals to form European University Alliances (EUA) in 2019 and 2020 to promote Europe’s universities competitiveness in the world and strengthen the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and European Research Area (ERA). With the objective to create a global educational core hub on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 “responsible consumption and production”, a consortium of seven universities, led by Montanuniversität Leoben, received a three-year funding in 2020 for the development of a European University on REsponsible Consumption And PROduction (EURECA-PRO).
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EURECA-PRO, The European University on Responsible Consumption and Production: An Alliance for Sustainability
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In recent years, the implementation of sustainability has gained importance in all areas of global societal development as science has proven that climate change is a human induced and inevitable future circumstance if nothing is done to avert it. With strategies and frameworks such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the EU Green Deal, it has become clear which direction research and education will take in the future, towards an interdisciplinary and excellence-based approach to systemically solve today’s societal challenges for a better ecological and social future. Innovation, education, research and societal cooperation, known as the knowledge square, are key factors in reaching these goals. The framework of the European Universities offers an opportunity that can integrate all these factors, in promoting cooperation across borders, languages, and disciplines thereby being an ideal vehicle to address societal challenges of our time and related skills and knowledge shortages faced in Europe. Within the ERASMUS+ and H2020 Framework Programmed seven higher education institutions located in six different EU member states, namely Montanuniversität Leoben (Austria), Technische Universitaet Bergakademie Freiberg (Germany), University of Petrosani (Romania), University of León (Spain), Technical University of Crete (Greece), Silesian University of Technology (Poland) and Mittweida University of Applied Sciences (Germany) joined forces and created a strong and unique European University in the field of Responsible Consumption and Production as defined in Sustainable Development Goal 12 of the United Nations: EURECA-PRO – The European University on REsponsible Consumption And PROduction. Its mission is a two-fold one: on the one hand, it aims at contributing creatively to the European Higher Education Transformation Agenda to stimulate seamless education and cooperation within Europe. On the other hand, it aims at becoming the European core excellence hub for responsible consumption and production converging all European and global activities, be it scientific, industrial or social, as well as all stakeholders in this field. Since Fall 2020 the consortium works on its goal to ultimately create a research and education agenda that systemically integrates all necessary interdisciplinary knowledge (technological, ecological, policy, economic, societal aspects etc.) to solve today’s pressing questions regarding consumption and production patterns and the transfer of solutions into society and industry. This is done by taking into consideration new technologies and processes that integrate material and resource flows towards responsible impact flows as well as complimentarily focusing on consumption behaviors and the factor human being in relation to these flows, thus putting the manifold influence factors in harmony to each other and the surrounding environment.
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EURECA-PRO, The European University Alliance on Responsible Consumption and Production
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In the frame of the ERASMUS+ Framework Programme seven higher education institutions located in six different European Union (EU) member states, namely the University of Leoben (Austria), the Technical University Freiberg (Germany), the University of Petrosani (Romania), the University of León (Spain), the Technical University of Crete (Greece), the Silesian University of Technology (Poland) and the Mittweida University of Applied Sciences (Germany) joined forces and aim to create a strong and unique European University in the field of Responsible Consumption and Production (RCP): EURECA-PRO, https://www.eurecapro.eu/. This university has a two-fold societal and planetary mission. On the one hand, it will holistically contribute to the very important issue of RCP under Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12, and on the other hand, it will effectively contribute to the transformation of the European Higher Education Area complimentarily to SDG 4. EURECA-PRO started on November 1, 2020 and by 2025 aims to be well-known throughout Europe for its competence as an educational core hub and as interdisciplinary research and innovation leader in qualitative environmental and social framework development for sustainable consumption and production of goods as well as for responsible systems design. By 2040 EURECA-PRO aims to be the global educational core hub and interdisciplinary research and innovation leader in qualitative environmental and social framework development for RCP of resources and goods. This will comprise technological, ecological, policy, economic and societal aspects and their transfer into the society and industry. Staff and future graduates will acquire sustainable, interdisciplinary, intercultural and systemic thinking engrained in their natural way of operation, fostering a prosperous societal development and a healthy economy, while at the same time relieving environmental pressures.
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Life Cycle Assessment for the Primary Raw Materials Extraction Industry
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Fair trade and the Sustainable Development Goals: an opportunity for sustainable production and consumption
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About responsibility in production and consumption
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Reducing Food Waste in Supermarkets with Machine Learning
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Around one-third of produced food is wasted, which is almost 1.3 billion tons of food per year, affecting the world economically, environmentally, and socially. Over the years, different solutions for food waste have been developed; however, machine learning within this area has not been sufficiently explored. The food rescue process is very time sensitive since the food can be close to turning rancid, so forecasting the supply of food to be donated could significantly increase the amount of food being rescued. Our objective is to optimise the use of food and reduce food waste in supermarkets. We propose a framework to predict the amount of expiring products donated with machine learning models.
In the paper, a first test of the framework, using simulated data, is presented, showing that the Support Vector Regression would be the most appropriate machine learning model for the framework, giving a score of 0.732While the paper shows that the framework can generate valuable results, the difficulties with applying it to the real world lie in the data acquisition phase. Supermarkets are private companies that might not be willing to share their business data, which is a problem for future research.
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Circularity and sustainability of bio-based polymer/natural fiber reinforced composite
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Biodeposition of diatoms in recycled aggregates
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Circular economy policies in the concrete production
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Plastic pollution and the need for responsible plastic consumption and waste management
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Health, habits and responsible and sustainable consumption
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Damage Tolerance Approach in the Concept of Quality Control Workflow of Passive CFRP Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Structures
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Unconscious and conscious aspects of healthy food consumption: a neuromarketing and artificial intelligence approach
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Ecological risks of post-artisanal mining sites and their sustainable cleaning techniques
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Multitemporal optical remote sensing to support forest health condition assessment of Mediterranean pine forests in Italy
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The Cost of Going Green in the Jiu Valley
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The zero pollution ambition. European main cities urban sound environment analysis
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The role of public policies and sustainable tourism to face the demographic challenge and sustainable production
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Evaluation of different environmental covariates performance for modeling soil salinity using Digital Soil Mapping in a susceptible irrigated rural area
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Investigating the Relation between Raw Materials and Climate Change in the Literature
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Contrasting compositional and abundance patterns in zooplankton communities between mountain and lowland ponds
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Mapping and estimation of carbon dioxide storage in forest plantations. The contribution of the Sentinel-2 time series in increasing estimates precision
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Near-real time forest health monitoring using ecophysiological sensors and the Internet of things (IoT). A study case for water stress in sustainable poplar plantations
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Study on the soil formation process on the mining waste dumps from Jiu Valley (Romania). A case study
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The present paper is in fact a continuation of a research effort started approx. 16 years ago, and whose main purpose is to follow the process of trans-formation of rocks from coal mining waste dumps into a fertile soil. Thus, during 2022, a new sampling campaign was carried out from the Petrila waste dump, which was later subjected to laboratory tests in order to determine the main characteristics that define the soil. These new data can be seen as the result of a periodic monitoring process and they complement the systematic study carried out between 2006 and 2011 (this study also included research related to the ecological succession of the phytocoenoses present on the Petrila dump). According to these latest analyses, the soil formation process is an active one, relatively slow, being highlighted by the increase in the content of nutrients and organic substances in the composition of the dumped material compared to the previously determined concentrations, as well as by the increase in the total and physiologically useful thickness of the soil layer. The results of this study are important for the next period, when the last 4 active dumps in Jiu Valley will be put into conservation, providing relevant information regarding the pedogenesis process that takes place on these dumps, under the exclusive influence of natu-ral factors.
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Can the fate of the non-avian dinosaurs help us to predict the consequences of the ongoing biodiversity crisis?
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Teacher's perceptions of fisheries ecolabels and game-based learning activities in the framework of Education for Sustainable Consumption
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Paredes-Rodríguez, A.C., Torralba-Burrial, A., Dopico, E. (2023). Teachers’ Perceptions of Fisheries Ecolabels and Game-Based Learning Activities in the Framework of Education for Sustainable Consumption. In: Benítez-Andrades, J.A., García-Llamas, P., Taboada, Á., Estévez-Mauriz, L., Baelo, R. (eds) Global Challenges for a Sustainable Society . EURECA-PRO 2022. Springer Proceedings in Earth and Environmental Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25840-4_54
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Effective biomass delignification with deep eutectic solvents
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Innovative treatment of municipal sewage sludge using hydrothermal carbonization and nutrient recovery technologies
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Resin degradation of end-of-life wind turbine blades to produce useful chemical compounds in the context of waste to resource recovery
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Sustainable Food, Key for the Future of the Planet: Getting to Know the European Consumer of Sustainable Products
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In recent decades, the unsustainability of mass production and consumption models has become evident. The sustainable food market is born in response to the growing demand for products that are respectful with the Planet and compromised with the health of human beings. Responsible Consumers lead this new market, by being conscious of the impact of their consumption patterns and by choosing the products, to make up their diet and lifestyle, that contribute to build a more Sustainable and Fair Food System. The present study focuses on analyzing and defining Sustainable Consumer profile’s: its behavior, its habits, its preferences; as well as those variables and factors that inhibit or motivate the consumption of Sustainable Food. Reaching a better understanding of one the main agents of the transition of the agri-food system towards a more sustainable one is key for both, private and public organizations, as this new market is booming and will continue growing in the coming years.
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Alonso, M.A.S., Abella, V.M., Martínez, I.B. (2023). Sustainable Food, Key for the Future of the Planet: Getting to Know the European Consumer of Sustainable Products. In: Benítez-Andrades, J.A., García-Llamas, P., Taboada, Á., Estévez-Mauriz, L., Baelo, R. (eds) Global Challenges for a Sustainable Society . EURECA-PRO 2022. Springer Proceedings in Earth and Environmental Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25840-4_16
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How implementing SDG 12 in teaching helps students develop prosocial skills?
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Research on Hard Drives in the Context of the Construction of Shredding Knives in the Recovery of Rare Earth Elements
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The publication presents an inventory of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) equipped with neodymium (NdFeB) magnets, which, when
decommissioned, will be able to become a source of REE procurement. These magnets contain Rare Earth Elements (REEs) such as neodymium, dysprosium and praseodymium. Products equipped with NdFeB magnets have been identified: computer hardware, consumer electronics, wind power generators, and electric-powered vehicles. A prospective source of REE acquisition could be HDDs and speakers in laptops and phones, which account for about 10% of the analysed equipment containing NdFeB magnets.
A study of the selected WEEE – hard disk drive in terms of material properties was carried out. The following analyses were performed: phase composition studies (XRD), microstructure studies (SEM-EDS), micro-area chemical composition studies (S/TEM) and hardness studies. Based on the studies, the material for the cutting knives of the twin-shaft shredder was selected. Three variants of cutting knives differing in the number of blades on the perimeter were developed in Autodesk Inventor 2023. Variants with three, four and five blades were considered. Strength calculations were then carried out using the Nastran plug-in. A force was applied to the cutting knife blades, from which von Mises stresses and strains were determined.
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Physical Processing in Waste Printed Circuit Boards Recycling: current state of research
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An insulation panel made from local plant-based lightweight concrete
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Research on the valorization of green sludge resulting from the manufacture of sodium dichromate in Romania
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Sustainable alternative to antimicrobial uses: new probiotics.
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Energy Saving Technology Integration into the Transport Sector; the Influence of Years of Driving and Gender on Electric Vehicles
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Production of nanobiochar from sewage sludge for the adsorption of Emerging Contaminants (ECs) from water and wastewater
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Influence of ground PV glass addition on selected properties of geopolymer mortars
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Responsible heritage protection actions
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Introduction of Integrated Resource Management for Sustainable Development of Industries methods
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Improving sustainability in Industrial Plant Construction Available tools and methods
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Consumption behaviour in the context of sustainable energy: theoretical approache
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Impact of the Operation Conditions on the Reverse-Water-Gas Shift Reaction
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Markowitsch, C., Lehner, M. (2023). Impact of the Operation Conditions on the Reverse-Water-Gas Shift Reaction. In: Benítez-Andrades, J.A., García-Llamas, P., Taboada, Á., Estévez-Mauriz, L., Baelo, R. (eds) Global Challenges for a Sustainable Society . EURECA-PRO 2022. Springer Proceedings in Earth and Environmental Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25840-4_10
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Monitoring electrical and weather parameters in bifacial system
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Thermal hydrogen production from petroleum reservoirs using steam reforming and in-situ catalyst application: A technical and economic analysis
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Bauer, J.F., Marrune, C.R., Amro, M. (2023). Thermal Hydrogen Production from Petroleum Reservoirs Using Steam Reforming and In-Situ Catalyst Application: A Technical and Economic Analysis. In: Benítez-Andrades, J.A., García-Llamas, P., Taboada, Á., Estévez-Mauriz, L., Baelo, R. (eds) Global Challenges for a Sustainable Society . EURECA-PRO 2022. Springer Proceedings in Earth and Environmental Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25840-4_58
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Comparative Exergy Analysis of Heat Pumps for Heat Recovery Applications
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Dosa, I. (2023). Comparative Exergy Analysis of Heat Pumps for Heat Recovery Applications. In: Benítez-Andrades, J.A., García-Llamas, P., Taboada, Á., Estévez-Mauriz, L., Baelo, R. (eds) Global Challenges for a Sustainable Society . EURECA-PRO 2022. Springer Proceedings in Earth and Environmental Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25840-4_56
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Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic systems for building of Industrial
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Energy Analysis of a Wastewater Treatment Plant
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Radu, S.M., Petrilean, D.C., Mija, N. (2023). Energy Analysis of a Wastewater Treatment Plant. In: Benítez-Andrades, J.A., García-Llamas, P., Taboada, Á., Estévez-Mauriz, L., Baelo, R. (eds) Global Challenges for a Sustainable Society . EURECA-PRO 2022. Springer Proceedings in Earth and Environmental Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25840-4_43