The circular economy comes to OekoFoire 2016

On 23, 24 and 25 September 2016 at the OekoFoire trade fair, the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) and the Ministry of the Economy shared a stand dedicated entirely to the circular economy in Luxembourg, as part of an initiative supported by the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Infrastructure. Among 180 international exhibitors at the trade fair, held in the halls of the Luxexpo exhibition centre, experts from LIST and their counterparts from the Ministry were able to present the principles of the circular economy, particularly biological and technological cycles, while also giving the trade fair's 10,000 visitors the opportunity to find out about the national initiatives relating to this topic.

For their stand, the highlight was indisputably its official opening on Friday 23 September at 5 pm. Francine Closener, Secretary of State for the Economy, Gabriel Crean, CEO of LIST, and Lucien Hoffmann, Director of the Department of Environmental Research and Innovation (ERIN) at LIST, each appeared in turn before around a hundred hand-picked guests. Among the latter, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy, Etienne Schneider, the Minister of Research, Marc Hansen, the Minister of the Environment, Carole Dieschbourg, and the Secretary of State for Sustainable Development and Infrastructure, Camille Gira, attended their speeches.

LIST, a driving force for the national circular economy

The circular economy, a form of collective intelligence that essentially involves rethinking on a global scale, with the support of new technologies and information technologies, such as Key Enabling Technology, which form a sort of adhesive linking the different areas together, lies at the heart of LIST's activities. Indeed, LIST endeavours to apply new information technologies to its different areas of research in a systematic way and in accordance with the principles of circularity and environmental impact reduction. As a result, LIST is able to develop truly intelligent technologies that meet the economic and social challenges of our time. More specifically, LIST is tackling the challenges of Smart Cities, Smart Manufacturing, Smart Finance and Smart Space. These large-scale challenges correspond to LIST's four major multidisciplinary research programmes which not only form a link between its different departments but also unite almost all its research activities.

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