The UKRI Interdisciplinary Centre for Circular Chemical Economyis a £4.4M UKRI investment and is in partnership with seven Universities – Loughborough, Cardiff, Heriot-Watt, Imperial College London, Liverpool, Newcastle and Sheffield and involves more than 20 industrial partners.The vision of our Centre is to transform the UK chemical industry’s linear supply chain model into a fossil-independent, climate-positive and environmentally friendly circular economy.

For our launch event we will bring together a range of experts and leading businesses to discuss the road to circular chemical economy, the role of innovations, the importance of the whole system approach, and various non-technical barriers around business motivation, finance gap, public awareness and policy incentive.

There will be opportunities for Q&A and interaction with guest speakers. We will also introduce various funding opportunities from the UKRI, the CE-Hub and the Centre to work with us.

This event is part of the National Launch Week for the £30M NICER (National Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Research) Programme funded by UKRI.

Programme of the event

• Welcome and Funding Opportunities by Prof Jin Xuan, Director of the Centre
• Keynote by Prof Sir Richard Catlow FRS “Science to Enable Circular Economy”
• Panel Discussion with academic and industrial leaders

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