Transnational Open Innovation Seminar

Online
Date: 22.09.2026
By: D4PACK

Join leading food manufacturers, packaging innovators, researchers, and industry clusters for an interactive transnational seminar focused on next-generation sustainable food packaging. 

Hosted by the D4PACK Consortium alongside internal and external experts of packaging and food industry, this event will showcase actionable open-innovation practices, eco-materials, and commercial solutions designed to drive the European bioeconomy forward. 

AGENDA:

10.00 Welcome & Introduction

10.10 Rationale behind the roadmap to sustainability?  – Ottavia Burello, PROMA

10.30 Packaging materials in a circular economy – András Ugrin,  UgrinPack

11.05 Pulp and paper packaging in the European bioeconomy – Igor Karlovits, Institute of Pulp and Paper (ICP)

11.25 Coffee break

11.40 Bio-Based active and intelligent Food Packaging: valorising agri-food side streams and natural bioactive compounds – Luciana Di Gregorio, ENEA, Department for Sustainability

12.00 The New Era of Packaging: Innovations Shaping the Future of FMCG – Nina Maurovič, DS Smith 

12.20 External speaker – TBC 

12.40 Q&A and closing

If you are interested in partecipating, please use the follow link to registerRegistration form- D4PACK Innovation seminar