In the workshop (WS 58) titled “Rewriting the playbook for smart sustainable manufacturing in Europe”, industry, policymakers, researchers will come together to co-create strategies in an interactive session that could support European industrial resilience and competitiveness.
This webinar will be led by EU-funded project ICARUS that is aiming to provide “technological support to energy-intensive and construction industries for the transition to more sustainable and digital processes in a business model for successful market implementation.”
This year’s workshop theme was “Driving the Circular Transition in the EU: Recovering Value from Secondary Raw Materials” and the objective was to drive progress towards a circular economy by keeping materials in circulation for as long as possible to reduce European dependence on virgin resources and build resilience to de-risk its supply chain in the face of global supply chain uncertainties.
The event brought together specialists from academia, industry, and policy to discuss how artificial intelligence, data analytics and economic modelling are driving the digital transformation of business, economic and social systems.
“Digital Product Passport & Traceability: Enabling Sustainability through Effective Policy” will take place on 27 November, 2025 at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Place du Congrès 1, 1000 Brussels, as well as online.
The workshop will take place on Tuesday, November 4, 10:00-13:00 pm CET in Camelia Room near Hall B6 inside the exhibition.
The session will highlight the challenges, barriers and opportunities in the market, skills, technology, social, legal, policy and political environments for wood recycling.
A key contribution of W2W to the masterclass was exposing the audience to technologies innovations in the circular economy and making them more receptive of using digital technologies to enhance circularity especially in waste valorisation.
New occupational roles are emerging – from bio-based material experts to digital traceability managers – yet skills gaps risk slowing adoption.
The workshop led by ReBoat Project will also feature other Horizon Europe initiatives, such as THESEUS, DeremCo, YouRban, SUM4Re, ICONIC Project, and STORCITO Project and showcase innovative circular solution across islands, cities and industrial systems.
