Program

DAY 1 - Thursday, June 22

08:00-08:30

Registration and welcome

08:30-09:00

Depart from city centre to the archaeological site of Knossos

For the technical visit to Knossos, see as follows a few articles that describe how societies used to manage their limited water resources in the Minoan era. We may realize that some of those practices we rediscover or reinvent today!

https://doi.org/10.2166/ws.2017.006; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12124897; https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2020.305

09:00-11:00

Guided tour to Knossos Palace, https://knossos-palace.gr/

11:00-11:30

Transfer to the industrial zone of Heraklion

11:30-13:30

Visit to the facilities of Plastika Kritis, https://www.plastikakritis.com/en

13:30-14:00

Transfer to the Technical Chamber of Greece

14:00-15:00

Light lunch

15:00-15:15

Welcome

Spiros Papaefthimiou, TUC

Georgios Tavernarakis, President of the Technical Chamber of Crete

15:15-16:00

How to make the transition to sustainable packaging

Jacqueline Cramer

16.00-17:00

LCA of packaging

Adisa Azapagic

17.00-18.00

Possible visit of the Archaeological museum

19:00-

Social Dinner

DAY 2 - Friday, June 23

08:30-09:00

Welcome

09:00-11:30

Food packaging materials and waste streams (Lecture)

SUSTAINABILITY

- Global challenges

- Sustainability and resources

- Circular economy as a possible solution

MATERIALS

- The different packaging materials (glass, (bio)plastic, paper/board, metal), production, pro and contra

WASTE MANAGEMENT

- Waste streams, end-of-life scenarios

- EOL, collection, sorting and recycling (theoretical, technical and actual recycling rates)

- Country specific information

- Challenges

Manuel Pfitzner | FH Campus Wien, Researcher

11:30-12:30

Food packaging related targets for a circular economy (Lecture and workshop)

Overview

Group work announcement

Smarter product use and manufacture (Refuse, Rethink, Reduce)

Extend lifespan of product and its parts (Reuse, Repair, Refurbish, Remanufacture, Repurpose)

Useful application of materials (Recycle, Recovery)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.104553

https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/358310

Group presentation

Victoria Krauter | FH Campus Wien, Researcher

12:30-14:00

Lunch break

14:00-15:30

Recycling-friendly packaging design (Lecture)

Packaging worst case examples: e.g. PET bottle sleeve or label, multilayer / end-of-life scenarios

Packaging design for recycling

Circular Packaging Design Guidelines, e.g.

https://www.fh-campuswien.ac.at/en/research/kompetenzzentren-fuer-forschung-und-entwicklung/competence-center-for-sustainable-and-future-oriented-packaging-solutions/circular-packaging-design-guideline.html

https://www.worldpackaging.org/wpo/45/#bottom

Theoretical optimisation of packaging (material choice, material combination)

Katharina Pavlovic | FH Campus Wien, Researcher

15:30-17:30

Store check in a nearby supermarket; buying different products/packaging

Excercise material detection using an infrared detector; calculation of the theoretical recyclability of the packaging; elaboration of design suggestions

Presentation and discussion implementation options

Victoria Krauter, Manuel Pfitzner, Katharina Pavlovic | FH Campus Wien, Researcher

17:30-18:00

Closing of day 2 and outlook to the next day

Victoria Krauter, Maria Milousi

20:00

Dinner / Evening activity

DAY 3 - Saterday, June 24

9:00 – 11.30

Online packaging market trends and drivers

Konstantinos Tsagarakis

11:30 – 12.00

Coffe Break

12:00 – 14.30

Exploring public interest trends in packaging topics using Google search traffic data

Amaryllis Mavragani

14:30 – 15.30

Lunch break

15:30 – 16.30

Closing

VENUE

The training school will be held in the beautiful city of Heraklion, Crete, Greece at the Technical Chamber of Greece, Department of East Crete, Prevelaki & Grevenon, 712 02 Heraklion Crete.

Date: 22-24 June 2023