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Since July 2024, the Federal Ministry for the Environment and Transport (BMUV) has been funding the Waste2Wealth project as part of the export initiative. Over the next two years, the company inter3 and the Chair of Circular Economy will enter into an exchange of knowledge with stakeholders in the target country Georgia, which will focus on the potential for optimising the recycling of agricultural residues in Georgia. The BTU recently issued a press release on this topic:

https://www.b-tu.de/news/artikel/27411-abfallwirtschaft-neu-gedacht-waste2wealth-setzt-in-georgien-auf-innovative-technologien-zur-wertstoffrueckgewinnung

On 29 August 2024, the Chair of Circular Economy received the grant notification from the Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg for the project"BioBatt-Ress, Separating resource recovery from complex components of lithium-ion batteries using biotechnological processes" (order number 86000679). The project is co-financed by the European Union.

We are pleased to welcome Prof. Dr. Simone Schopf to the Chair of Circular Economy. She has been a visiting professor at the chair since 01.07.2024. Since October 2023 she was group leader of the Biomedical Laboratory Unit at the Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technology. During her time at BTU, she will focus her research on biofilms in environmental processes.

Visit to the Sonne Freienhufen power plant. As part of the lecture "Mechanical and thermal processes of waste treatment", students and staff members of the FG KrW visited the incineration plant in Großräschen together.

Prof. Abendroth has been a member of the advisory board for the CircularHub www.circularhub-lausitz.de since 2022. Lausitzer Technologiezentrum GmbH - LAUTECH is currently looking for a new project manager to continue the project: Project in Hoyerswerda - BA job search (arbeitsagentur.de).

Prof. Abendroth visited the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) from March 11 to 22. The exchange followed the visit of two Mexican students to BTU and Prof. Abendroth taught a two-week module entitled "Anaerobic Microbiomes and their Applications". On behalf of the FG Circular Economy, we would like to thank Prof. Dr. Constantino Gutiérrez for his support and the organization on the part of UNAM.

The two doctoral students Mozhdeh Alipoursarbani and Nils Jansen presented their results at this year's scientific congress of the German Waste Management Association (DGAW e.V.). The conference took place in the Kuppelsaal of the TU Vienna. Ms. Alipoursarbani presented results from the EU project "MIcro4Biogas", which she published in cooperation with the company PRO-Entec east GmbH on the optimization of digestion towers in waste water treatment plants. Nils Jansen presented his master's thesis, which addressed emission reductions through the use of biogas plants in collaboration with the company LUCRAT GmbH. Both papers can also be found in the conference proceedings: https: //doi.org/10.15203/99106-120-5

On 14 February 2024, the Chair of Circular Economy received notification of funding from the Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg for the project"MikroMeta, Untersuchung v. Mikrobiomen,insb. Unterscheidung metanogener Phänotypen in Abhängigkeit v. der bakt. Gemeinschaft" (order number 86000085). The project is co-financed by the European Union.