[Takeoff #1] Winning a European call for projects
Valérie Guillard, a researcher at the IATE laboratory, is coordinator of the Glopack research project in the field of sustainable food packaging, winner of a European Horizon 2020 call for projects. She presents this great success to us this month as part of the "Décollage" video series produced by the University of Montpellier's Department of Innovation and Partnerships (DIPA).
Glopack, the project that swept Europe off its feet
Glopack's goal was to develop active, smart, bio-based, and biodegradable packaging that could serve as an alternative to conventional plastic."The project was born in 2016 from an idea and a European call for tenders published at that time, which included all the keywords relevant to our research activities,"explains Valérie Guillard, a researcher at the Agropolymers Engineering and Emerging Technologies Joint Research Unit and coordinator of this project, which brings together 16 European academic and private partners.
To respond to this call for tenders, which she won, the researcher enlisted the support of the DIPA. Completed last November, the success of the Glopack project can be summed up in two figures: three innovations in the field of sustainable food packaging and a first commercial application.
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