Partners from ten countries participated on Tuesday, in Targu Mures, in the international conference "Digital Leap into the Circular Economy: Unlocking Potential for a Greener Danube Region", dedicated to boosting the circular economy in the Danube region through digitalization and innovation.
The conference "Digital Leap into the Circular Economy: Unlocking Potential for a Greener Danube Region", hosted by "George Emil Palade" the University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Sciences and Technology (UMFST) in Targu Mures, is organized within the project "DECIDE - Digital Services for the Circular Economy: a Toolkit for Regional Developers and SMEs".
"The conference also represents an element of synergy with the intensive BIP Erasmus+ program that continues the tradition of BEST - Boost your Entrepreneurship Skills in Transylvania, within which 31 students from partner universities from Germany, France, Bulgaria and Romania will use the tools developed in the DECIDE project to model innovative business ideas in the circular economy during this week", said Associate Professor Liviu Ciucan-Rusu, co-organizer of the conference, at the opening of the event.
The DECIDE project, part of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region, encourages SMEs, start-ups an economic development organizations to adopt the circular economy, offering practical methods and tools for promoting innovative business models, aiming to identify and implement successful circular economy business models in the Danube region.
These models target sectors such as food, textiles, packaging, batteries and smart cities, contributing to the sustainable development goals of the European Union.
"We are here, at this joint event, with joint forces and this is proof - as are other projects that we implement within UMFST Targu Mures - of our long-term commitment to academic excellence and research. It is proof of putting together ideas, projects, people, sometimes from different fields, but who have common interests and who are concerned about some very important topics in today's society (...). This event, which brings together so many students from different countries, is another proof that together we strive to be the best", declared the UMFST Targu Mures vice-rector for international relations, university networks and public relations, professor Mihaela Kardos said.
The project is led by the Böblingen District Digitization Center (ZD.BB GmbH) in Germany and involves a transnational network covering seven EU member states and three neighboring countries, with a total project budget of almost 2.9 million euros.
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