On May 12–13, the Kick-Off Meeting of the ReWoW project – Revolutionizing the Waste of Waste: A new bioeconomy-based business for digestate – will take place in Barcelona.
The meeting will serve as the project kick-off session of the European project, aiming to introduce the partners and the teams involved. On the first day, brief presentations will be given by each partner, focusing on the key aspects they contribute to the project. The second day will be dedicated to presentations and discussions of the different work packages. In addition, on the second day two parallel meetings will be organized to discuss interconnected aspects of the work packages. Parallel meeting I will focus on the initial activities of WP1, WP2, and WP3, while parallel meeting II will address cross-cutting aspects of WP4, WP5, and WP6, as defined by their leaders. The meeting will conclude with a technical visit to the UAB facilities, at the Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, for previously registered participants.
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The ReWoW project proposes a disruptive approach to transform digestate, the byproduct of anaerobic digestion, from an environmental burden into a valuable feedstock for a new bioeconomy. The project introduces a novel valorization pathway through the development of Modular Adaptive Fermentation (MAF), a next generation bioprocess that combines microbial bioconversion with artificial intelligence (AI)-driven optimization.
ReWoW is one of three projects selected coordinated by Catalan entities and one of five funded across the whole of Spain under the EIC Pathfinder Open 2025 call, which supports visionary ideas to develop radically new technologies with a high-risk, high-impact approach. The ENT Foundation is one of the partners in the project consortium, coordinated by the UAB.
Fundació ENT leads WP5 (Value chains, social & policy aspects development). This WP aims to identify, support, and enable the development of sustainable value chains and policy frameworks that can drive the widespread adoption of the digestate-based biorefinery defined in the project. This includes analyzing social acceptance, market integration, regulatory barriers, and governance mechanisms to ensure the project’s innovations are embedded in viable economic and policy contexts.