Workpackage 1
Coordination and management
Lead: UNIROMA
Partners: CLIC, all
Partners: CLIC, all
This work package manages all organizational, administrative, and financial tasks to ensure that the project is delivered on time, within budget, and to the required quality. Sapienza Università di Roma leads the WP, supported by all partners in reporting, internal communication, data management, and quality assurance.
Workpackage 2
Sustainable upcycling of OMW in immunostimulants, biopesticides and fertilizers
Lead: UNIROMA
Partners: ACIB, AGR, UBU, UNICRA
Partners: ACIB, AGR, UBU, UNICRA
We develop scalable extraction processes to recover bioactive compounds from olive mill waste. Robust bioassays and greenhouse trials test their effects as immunostimulants, biopesticides, and fertilizers. The WP ensures safe, effective, and environmentally compatible formulations, supported by partners working on assays, product characterisation, and validation.
Workpackage 3
Bioplastics production as innovative carbon sequestration strategy
Lead: UNIPD
Partners: ACIB, AGR, UBU, UNICRA, UNIROMA
Partners: ACIB, AGR, UBU, UNICRA, UNIROMA
This WP develops microbial processes to produce PHAs from digestate from biogas production and CO2. It combines fermentative acids and PHA production with strain engineering and advanced recovery and product validation. Bioplastic will be tested for improved properties and prototypes, such as food packaging and agricultural mulch film, produced.
Workpackage 4
Innovative approaches for pollution prevention, noise and odour emissions control and value recovery
Lead: UNICRA
Partners: ACIB, AGR, RISE, UBU, UNIPD, UNIROMA
Partners: ACIB, AGR, RISE, UBU, UNIPD, UNIROMA
This WP develops solutions to remove nitrogen and phosphorus from liquid digestates while recovering PHAs, produces hydrochar from solid residues, and designs odour and noise mitigation strategies. The aim is to minimise local environmental burdens while creating valuable by-products.
Workpackage 5
System digital twin (SDT) to improve resources circularity and system sustainability
Lead: UNISUR
Partners: RISE, all
Partners: RISE, all
This WP develops a hierarchical digital twin of the entire olive mill biorefinery system. It integrates physics-based and data-driven models with explainable AI, enabling scenario simulations, optimisation, and secure data sharing. This allows informed decisions to maximise circularity, sustainability, and efficiency.
Workpackage 6
Cross-cutting assessments of safety, environmental and economic impacts, circularity and risk
Lead: RISE
Partners: ACIB, AGR, RISEP, UBU, UNICRA, UNISUR, UNIPD, UNIROMA
Partners: ACIB, AGR, RISEP, UBU, UNICRA, UNISUR, UNIPD, UNIROMA
This WP applies iterative Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Life Cycle Costing (LCC), Techno-Economic Assessment (TEA), and safety/risk evaluations. Findings are continuously fed back to the technical WPs, guiding design choices and supporting the integration of circularity and safety measures.
Workpackage 7
Dissemination, exploitation, and communication
Lead: ACIB
Partners: CLIC, all
Partners: CLIC, all
This WP manages project communication, stakeholder engagement, synergy creation with related projects and exploitation planning. Activities include website, social media, events, scientific publications, and tailored outreach to industry and policy. Exploitation pathways and IPR strategies are developed to ensure long-term impact.