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Crossing Srl has taken part at Agrifood Innovation Festival 2024, an event organized by Food Hub dedicated to the innovations in the Agri-food sector, The BeSoGreat project was presented during the networking tables with great interest among the participants. The project, funded by the European Commission under the Interreg 2021-2027 program, aims to innovate and […]

The partner Cluster COMET had the opportunity to present the BeSoGreat project to stakeholders from all across Europe at the Ecomondo fair, the most important European event dedicated to the green and circular economy. Open workshops, debates and networking sessions enabled dialogue with public entities, businesses, and representatives from academia on sustainability and circular economy

In order to print various products in a satisfactory quality with our spent grains material, we need the correct print settings. Since this is a newly developed material, no data is available and we have to determine it. To do this, various calibration steps are carried out. The data of the bioplastic used serves as

In order to involve regional interest groups in the project, a focus group workshop for Austrian representatives took place at the FH Kufstein. The aim was to achieve two main objectives: firstly, to inform the stakeholders about the objectives and activities of the BeSoGreat project, and secondly, to involve them in a discussion in order

After the first months of work, the update meeting with all project partners was held on September 3, 2024 at the operational headquarters of Crossing srl in Vicenza. During the meeting the partners took stock of the project’s progress, planned next actions, and set goals until the end of the year. It was an opportunity

In the last weeks we visited two Carinthian breweries for our project BeSoGreat, which is co-funded by the European Union. There we learned first hand about their Brewer’s Spent Grain (BSG) management. Stakeholder engagement is an important part of our project, in which we are developing a circular business model for BSG and using it

At the beginning of May, we were invited to the celebrations for Europe Day 2024 in Klagenfurt. The celebration was organized with contributions on current EU projects from various institutions. We had the opportunity to present our BeSoGreat project and introduce it to the audience in an interview. The celebration was accompanied by music and

As part of the project, we are investigating how the by-product of brewing, brewer’s grain, can be processed into biocomposites. The result will be a more sustainable material than conventional fossil-based plastics, which we will use to manufacture products using injection molding and 3D printing. We have considered a few applications that we would like

The online project start in January was followed by the on-site kick-off meeting with all project participants at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences in Villach on February 13, 2024. The kick-off began with a brief introduction of the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences and the ADMiRE research center, followed by a tour of the

Brewer’s grain is the seed that is left over after the mashing process in beer brewing. Cereals such as barley, wheat, rye and oats are used for this. In the mashing process, they are soaked in hot water to extract sugars and other fermentable compounds, after which the grains are separated from the liquid wort.