The Le’ Colaz system redefines construction and renovation by integrating innovative tools, products, and techniques to enable adaptable, circular, and sustainable building practices. Inspired by “LEGO bricks,” its modular framework combines bio-based and recycled materials with advanced snap-fit components, designed for seamless assembly, disassembly, and reuse. This approach significantly improves the adaptability of buildings and building units to new uses, ensuring optimal utilization of indoor spaces and enhancing living and working conditions. By embedding principles of circular economy and life-cycle optimization, Le’Colaz extends the service life of buildings and increases the reuse and recycling of building elements, reducing waste and resource consumption. The system incorporates two cutting-edge digital platforms: the Internet of Materials Module (IoM²), which uses IoT sensors and digital product passports to monitor component performance, enabling predictive maintenance and informed decisions on reuse or recycling, and the Internet of Building Brain (IoB²), powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), which optimizes renovations, regional component reuse, and compliance with regulatory frameworks. Together, these tools facilitate dynamic adaptations to changing user needs and environmental conditions while promoting best practices for design for adaptability, reuse, and deconstruction. The system’s effectiveness is validated through simulation-based assessments and Living Labs in Athens and Trondheim, demonstrating measurable gains in energy efficiency, circularity, and adaptability. By fostering awareness and innovation in sustainable construction, Le’ Colaz sets a new standard for circular, resource-efficient buildings. Through its modular design, digital intelligence, and life-cycle optimization, it delivers measurable improvements in adaptability and resource efficiency, paving the way for a circular and future-proof built environment.

FleFlex2Energy is a 48-month project with the ambitious goal to manufacture reliable Integrated Photovoltaics (IPVs) with differentiated product design, through the development of the first-of-each-kind Automated Roll-to-Roll (R2R) Manufacturing Line for Organic PVs. The F2E Manufacturing Line consists of the R2R Printing & Automated Assembly Machines, enhanced with robust metrologies for inline quality & process control under Artificial Intelligence (AI) analysis, implementing industry 4.0 concept. F2E IPVs will comply with all the standards, codes and product requirements of use in Buildings, Agriculture and Automotive sectors. The novel idea of Flex2Energy will be realized by 5 objectives: • Develop and upgrade manufacturing tools for design and aesthetics of OPV products, inline process quality control techniques and easily adaptable equipment design for printed PV technologies • Integrate tools, QC, equipment to Machines to build & demonstrate automated PL manufacturing of IPVs • Manufacturing high efficiency, durable printed IPV products at competitive cost • Demonstrate and Validate IPVs in energy efficient buildings, automotive and agriculture industries with minimum environmental and landscape impact • Deploy Market Strategy and Bridge the gap between PV and Building sectors F2E will implement innovative IPV products in three dedicated business cases to promote their early adoption and boost the new market demands. BIPV products will be installed on a public and a heavy industry building façade as energy efficient windows, while Agri-PVs will be installed on the roof of a Med GH working as a shade curtain system for growth of tomatoes and as energy generator making the GH energy autonomous. Finally, VIPVs will be installed on the roof of a commercial EV to increase mileage and also on the roof of a solar Carport to provide energy to electric vehicles. The IPV products will be evaluated in terms of performance, durability, social and industrial acceptance.

Plastic waste outlive us on this planet as they take centuries to break down. Endocrine disruption, land, air and water pollution are only some of the adverse effects of plastic waste on public and environmental health. Still, 70% of plastic waste collected in Europe is landfilled or incinerated. The overall objective of SURPASS project is to lead by example the transition towards more Safe, Sustainable and Recyclable by Design (SSRbD) polymeric materials. The SURPASS consortium of 14 partners consisting of research and technology organizations and industries will: 1. Develop SSRbD alternatives with no potentially hazardous additives through industrially relevant case-studies (TRL3-5) targeting the three sectors representing 70% of the European plastic demand: - Building: bio-sourced polyurethane resins with enhanced vitrimer properties to replace insulating PVC for window frames (? 40% C-Footprint reduction) - Transport: lightweight, therefore less energy-consuming epoxy-vitrimer (? 30% C-Footprint reduction), as alternative to metal for the train structure, anticipating emerging use of non-recyclable composites. - Packaging: MultiNanoLayered films involving no compatibilizers to replace currently non-recyclable multi-layers films (? 60% C-Footprint reduction). 2. Optimize reprocessing technologies adapted to the new SSRbD systems to support achievement of ambitious recyclability targets. 3. Develop a scoring-based assessment that will guide material designers, formulators and recyclers to design SSRbD polymeric materials, operating over the plastic?s entire life cycle, including hazard, health, environmental and economic assessment. 4. Merge all data and relevant methodologies in a digital infrastructure, offering an open-access user-friendly interface for innovators. SURPASS will in particular address its results to SMEs, representing more than 99% of enterprises, and therefore has an outstanding potential to contribute to the transition towards green economy.

Biodegradable alternatives offer a promising solution to plastic pollution and waste littering in the open environment in some specific contexts, as they break down naturally under specific environmental conditions. However, it is often reported that many biodegradable plastics do not fully degrade in their receiving environment. MAGICBIOMAT aims at developing a portfolio of circular bio-based materials with programmed biodegradability demonstrated through 2 applications with highly concerning rates of littering: mulching films and paper-based packaging, tested in open environments conditions (soil, fresh water and marine) and different EU climates. Moreover, MAGICBIOMAT will address circularity by improving the durability of the developed bio-based materials for extending lifespan of products, as well as assessing mechanical recycling, remanufacturing, and reuse. To enable programming of biodegradability of the bio-based materials, MAGICBIOMAT will develop a trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered software to guide the design and manufacturing of novel materials according to applications requirements (properties, manufacturing) and end-of-life needs and conditions, exploiting data from the project material development and biodegradation tests, complemented with open access data. This tool will foster adoption of novel bio-based biodegradable materials by the industry. Prevention of waste littering will also be tackled through consumers’ and end users’ perspective, for which behavioural studies will be carried out to develop interactive labelling and behaviour change strategies that foster user-acceptance of the novel biodegradable materials.

MOEBIOS is an application of the circular (bio)economy concept: the development of three value chains incorporating separate recycling streams for bioplastics (BP’s) to improve waste management efficiency throughout Europe. It is a systemic innovation: it will create linkages addressed at the different key stages of the whole chains to solve a hierarchical challenge, from the collection of the bioplastic waste (simulated streams), up to the upcycling and validation of the final recycled end-products (holistic and coordinated solution). The new value chain will imply sorting, conditioning and valorising three types of waste streams from the packaging, agriculture and textile industries into three end-products, targeting to reach at least the same quality and functionality than the original grades, while the end users’ acceptance will be assessed as well. As cornerstone targets for maximizing project’s impact, the upscaling of the recycling processes will: (1) be integrated in pilot plants on the premises of actual industrial recycling lines currently operating in waste management companies, not disrupting them, and reaching a final TRL = 6/7 or even beyond. (2) focus on bioplastics for which recycling processes are still not in place, excluding bio-based analogues (“drop-ins”): PLA and PLA blends, PHA and its blends, PBS and PEF, accordingly with the market. The use of PBAT will be assessed as well. A Multi-Actor Approach (MAA) and a transdisciplinary methodology will engage waste producers, waste managers, bio-based and (bio)plastics industry, public authorities, standardization agencies, citizens and media multipliers, creating a co-creation and co-ownership innovation environment of + 50 participants.