Category Archives: Allgemein

New member of the FINEST SAB

| 6. October 2025
The FINEST team is happy to announce that Dr. Thies Johannson from TU Berlin has accepted the request of the FINEST Steering Committee to join the Scientific Avisory Board of FINEST. New SAB member Thies Johanssen Thies is doing research in the field of Transfer  at the Faculty of Engineering, and received a prize for [...]

FINEST Microplastics and PUreValue at EBC-IX

| 17. June 2025
We are thrilled to share that all PhD students from FINEST Microplastic consortium as well as members of the Satellite PUreValue recently participated in the 9th European Bioremediation Conference (EBC-IX), where they each had the opportunity to present their ongoing research and engage in insightful scientific discussions. The event was an invaluable platform for sharing preliminary [...]

FINEST FORUM#1 – Thanks for Participating!

| 13. June 2025
On June 11th, 2025 the FINEST FORUM#1 was held in Forum Adlershof in Berlin. Stakeholder from industry, academia, authorities, associations, politics, etc. are invited to contribute with their perspective on the circular economy. Further information on the agenda etc. can be found at the FORUM's page.

Review paper in Nature Chemical Engineering

| 13. June 2025
Congratulations to the authors Ren Wei, Gert Weber, Lars Blank and Uwe Bornscheu for having published in the high-ranked journal Nature Chemical Engineering. The paper provides a review on biotechnological methods to sustainably recycle or upcycle plastic waste as one of the most challenging crises of today. Recent achievements using biocatalytical and biotechnological methods are [...]

FINEST FORUM#1 – Register now!

| 28. April 2025
On June 11th, 2025 the FINEST FORUM#1 will be held in Forum Adlershof in Berlin. Stakeholder from industry, academia, authorities, associations, politics, etc. are invited to contribute with their perspective on the circular economy. Further information on the agenda etc. can be found at the FORUM's page. Registration is open now.

FINEST-Article published in Journal of Industrial Ecology

| 19. February 2025
The research article titled "Future disposal surge - A new quantification approach for predicting waste from external thermal insulation composite systems in Germany" by Rafael Bischof, Rebekka Volk and Frank Schultman has recently been published in the renowned Journal of Industrial Ecology.  Congratulations Rafael! The article deals with the study to quantify the amount of [...]

PUreValue Satellite Project Launched

| 23. January 2025
The team headed by Franziska Lederer (FINEST PI from HZDR) successfully defended the proposal as a Satellite Project in the frame of the HGF Sustainability Challenge. Researchers from HZB, HZDR and UFZ are tackling the recycling of PU by means of biotechnology as of September 2024. Further information can be found here.

FINEST Project Meeting 4

| 25. May 2024
The fourth project meeting was held in Rossendorf, and as usual on the first day the current progress in all SP's were presented and discussed. The second day was dedicated to various activities to foster the exchange beyond the individual SP's. Also, the PhD candidates had the chance to discuss with the Head of the [...]

Excursion to Torgau

| 15. February 2024
As part of a three-day retreat organized by the FINEST Research School, the doctoral students of the FINEST project were guests in Torgau. The international team's research projects are dedicated to the recycling of dusty industrial waste, including microplastics, mineral additives and metal-containing dusts. The program included two industry excursions to AVANCIS GmbH and Saint-Gobain [...]