Following the fourth call for projects, the Network is funding 8 research projects to advance knowledge of the circular economy and accelerate the transition.
- Sustainable Circular Economy Approach to Utilize Biodegradable Wood-fiber reinforced Biocomposites in Environmentally-benign Architected Materials, by Hamid Akbarzadeh, professor at McGill University, in collaboration with Lucas Hof, professor at École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Nicole Demarquette, professor at ÉTS and Ehsan Estakhrianhaghighi, post-doctoral fellow at McGill University.
- Advanced planning of circular economy strategies in the construction sector by optimizing operations and logistics in deconstruction projects, by Tasseda Boukherroub, professor at École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), in collaboration with Jean-François Audy, professor at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR), Félix Veilleux, student at ÉTS, Nathalie Drapeau, director of the Régie intermunicipale de traitement des matières résiduelles de la Gaspésie and Hélène Gervais, consultant at RECYC-Québec.
- Moving away from single-use plastics – public policies and levers for a sustainable plastics circular economy, by Sophie Bernard, professor at Polytechnique Montréal, in collaboration with Valérie Patreau, student at Polytechnique Montréal and Justin Leroux, professor at HEC.
- Pioneering efficient recycling of plastics using terahertz technology, by Mariia Zhuldybina, researcher at École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), in collaboration with ÉTS researcher Emna Helal and Jonathan Bois, student at ÉTS.
- SME Circularity Index – 4.0, by François Labelle, professor at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR), in collaboration with UQTR student Rahma Chouchane, UQTR professor Thang Ledinh, UQTR student Chan Nam Nguyen and Paul Muamba, manager at the Economic Development and Employability Network of Canada.
- Circular Economy at the Heart of Office Furniture Conception: Towards Furniture Reuse Within the Industry, by Houssein Awada, INOVEM Scientific Director, in collaboration with Adeline Seneclauze, INOVEM Project Manager, Marc Journeault, Professor at Université Laval, Mathias Glaus, Professor at École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), and an INOVEM team.
- Electrowinning of Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) waste – an AI-based approach for process optimization, by Lucas Hof, professor at École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), in collaboration with Philippe Bocher, professor at ÉTS, Sabrina Gravel, professor at Université de Montréal, Mohsen Mokhtabad-Amrei, researcher at ÉTS, Soroosh Hakimian, student at ÉTS and Shamim Pourrahimi Seyghalani, student at ÉTS.
- Investigating the application of circularity principles to multidisciplinary product development: wearable technologies, by Julia Guérineau, researcher at École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), in collaboration with Mariia Zhuldybina, researcher at ÉTS.
