Synergies
The HarWASTing project actively establishes synergies with other EU-funded projects and initiatives that share similar goals in bioeconomy, circular economy, and sustainable biomass valorization. These collaborations enabled knowledge exchange, cross-promotion of results, and alignment of efforts to maximize impact.
By connecting with complementary projects, HarWASTing strengthened its outreach, enhanced the relevance of its solutions, and contributed to building a broader innovation ecosystem focused on green development pathways.
Discover how HarWASTing is building impact through collaboration
Explore our partner projects and shared initiatives below
PRIMARY
New business for farmers and cooperatives in rural areas by local upcycling solutions using underutilized agricultural feedstocks
PRIMARY specifically addresses underutilized agricultural biomass including grass, greenhouse and cotton by-products, and olive tree pruning residues. The project demonstrates six innovative processing technologies in North-East (Finland) and South-East Europe (Greece) to produce food, feed, bio-based materials, bioenergy, and fertilizers, applying cascading principles to maximize feedstock value. Through its multi-actor approach and open innovation call, PRIMARY validates replicable business models for rural areas where pilot plants are rare, contributing to the transition “from silos to diversity” and strengthening Europe’s circular bioeconomy value chains.
EMBEDED
Exploiting Modular Biochar and board production plants to locally transform waste from traditional agrifood, feed and forestry industries into bio-materials with rEgional DEmanD.
The EMBEDED project aims to demonstrate alternative business models in 36 months by transforming waste from Europe traditional agrifood industries into biochar and construction boards, with a long-term carbon sink effect and short resilient value chains. The validation of the km.0 application of biochar on primary producer plantations and the regional market characterization will be conducted. Valorisation streams aim to combine marginal revenues from mainstream residues (olive pomace, olive stones, grape mark) with overlooked or underutilised ones (cork bark left on field, press-cake from fresh grass, grape stems), with five demonstration pilots planned in Portugal, Ireland, Spain, and Czech Republic. Four of the pilots will have pyrolysis for the manufacture of biochar, using a modular method that fits pre- and post-conditioning phases into a single–maned portable unit. In two of the pilots, extractive methods aimed at bio-active chemicals will be evaluated to determine the added benefit of a cascade valorisation. Using a modular but stationary pilot, the Board production plant will capitalize on the cork outputs geographical.