WSS Research Centre for a Circular Economy in Chemistry

The Werner Siemens Foundation (WSS) has announced a long-term “project of the century” in which a research centre for the development of catalytically driven production processes for a multidimensional circular economy in the chemical industry is to be established. A total of 123 ideas were submitted for the project by researchers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

The “catalaix: Catalysis for a circular economy” project was selected for a grant of 100 million Swiss francs over ten years. It aims to enable the efficient recycling of plastic mixtures and the reuse of molecular building blocks in a versatile, flexible circular economy.

The centre, will be led by Professors Regina Palkovits and Jürgen Klankermayer from RWTH Aachen University, will focus on the development of new catalysis processes for the targeted degradation and reuse of products at the end of their life cycle. This initiative is intended to make a significant contribution to the sustainable transformation of the chemical industry and was launched as the Werner Siemens Foundation’s largest project to date.

We are proud to call Regina Palkovits part of our NFDI4Cat team and wish her and Jürgen Klankermayer every success in this exciting and promising project.

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