Strategic Agenda
2021-2027 Regional Strategy focuses on innovation in the areas of “digital transition”, “green transition” and “social and territorial impact”. Innovation and research projects must be allocated within at least one of these areas. The “Green Transition” aims to promote the sustainability of existing production systems, with an emphasis on reconversion and sustainable innovation, as well as offering goods and services with a positive environmental impact. This objective is linked to sustainable industrial competitiveness, focusing on seven fields, including the circular economy and the energy transition.
S3 2021-2027 is represented by the Priority Innovation Systems (SPI), which include: Aerospace, Mobility, Green Technologies and Materials, Advanced Manufacturing, Food and Health. The Priority System of Green Technologies, Resources and Materials integrate Green Chemistry and Clean Tech, aiming to increase environmental sustainability. Green chemistry is a key example, as it deals with the design of chemical processes with low environmental impact and produces green materials.
Challenges
POSITIONING
of the Piedmontese industrial system at the forefront of the decarbonisation process
DEVELOPMENT
of new supply chains related to green materials and energy carrier
RELAUNCHING
some supply chains in a sustainable way
The Priority System of Green Technologies, Resources and Materials sees three areas of activity, guided by the following macro-objectives, intrinsically linked and complementary to each other:
- Technologies and services for Sustainability and the circular economy
- Technologies and services for Decarbonization
- Green Materials and Sustainable Components
In this context, the technological areas that bring together most of the companies of the CGREEN Cluster, are related to sustainability and circular economy and green chemistry of advanced materials.
Technological goals
- Socio-economic system using renewable resources from the soil and sea
- Valorisation of by-products and waste starting from raw and secondary materials
- Sustainable processes and technologies to produce products made from renewable raw materials/sources and from reuse/recycling
- Development of solutions, processes and materials for Biorefineries/New generation green fuels (e-fuels and biofuels) and related technologies.
- Implementation of sustainable solutions in waste management from a circular perspective
- Sustainable design and implementation of innovative products, processes and uses
- Solution for hazardous materials and substances uses
- Sustainable management of local supply chains solutions
- Biorefineries for the conversion of first, second and third generation biomass for the production of raw materials for the chemical industry
- Development of materials and their valorisation, including recycling, for all the supply chains (automotive, packaging, materials for sustainable buildings, furniture)
- Innovative management of materials and components for the sustainable management of local supply chains
- Development of technologies and new products for the reuse of industrial and end-of-life waste in the food, building, packaging, electronics and automotive sectors
- Materials from the textile supply chain (“bio-based” fibers, compostable/biodegradable fibers, fibers coming from waste from agricultural or agri-food production chains)
- Development of technologies, processes and new models of waste management