After more than two years of activity, the European project D4PACK comes to a close with the event “Driving Sustainable Packaging Innovation for Food SMEs”, taking place on Tuesday 27 October at 10:00 a.m. at Confindustria Verona (Verona, Italy).
The morning will be moderated by Davide Miserendino, Editorial Director of ItaliaImballaggio and Kairos Media Group.
The event will open with welcome addresses by Giangiacomo Pierini, Vice President for Internationalisation at Confindustria Verona, and Luca Ferrarese, Director of the Joint Secretariat of the Interreg Central Europe programme. The project partners will then present the features, results and future developments of the D4PACKtool, followed by the presentation of the winning project of the D4PACK Hackathon. The focus will then broaden to the relationship between sustainability, food companies and consumer choices, with a talk by the Krakow University of Economics.
The second part of the morning will be devoted to the round table “Sustainable Packaging for Food SMEs: A Dialogue Across the Supply Chain”, which will bring together different perspectives from the sector:
- Monica Aversa, Policy Advisor at the Confindustria Delegation to the European Union
- Michele Gelmi, R&D Packaging Manager at Gruppo Veronesi
- Diana Gregor Svetec, Professor at the University of Ljubljana
- Neni Rossini, President of GIFLEX
- Luca Stramare, Director of the Circular Economy Research Centre Division at CONAI
The discussion will focus on the challenges, opportunities and prospects of sustainable packaging for food businesses.
The event will be held in English, with simultaneous English-Italian interpretation, and will also be streamed online.
Registration is open at the following link.