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Project INTEGRASTE Project "Development of INTEgrated aGRoindustrial wASTE management politics maximizing materials recovery and energy exploitation" - INTEGRASTE, has as main objective to utilize agro-wastes (agricultural plant residues) and agro-industrial wastes (from e.g olive mills, piggeries etc) in order to produce a sustainable fuel source that can be integrated into the existing energy infrastructure in the medium term while in the longer term will also provide a safe and economical means of supplying the needs of a developing hydrogen and biogas fuel economy.
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The Factors

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The Environmental Problem

Today, world energy consumption contributes to pollution environmental deterioration and global greenhouse emissions. Increases in energy consumption are driven by population growth and economic development that tend to increase energy use per capita.

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Integraste Actions & Expected Results

Integraste project is planned to produce promising results to alleviate the hesitations and barriers raised by stakeholders regarding the exploitation of agroindustrial wastes for material recovery (mainly compost) as well as electric

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The Partnership

Western Greece Region has a significant experience in the field of agricultural waste management. Indicatively, personnel belonging to its staff was directly involved in the project "Integrated management of agro-industrial waste waters in the cross-boundary Greek - Italian regions".

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Life +

The LIFE programme is the EU's funding instrument for the environment. The general objective of LIFE is to contribute to the implementation, updating and development of EU environmental policy and legislation by co-financing pilot or demonstration projects with European added value.

 

LIFE began in 1992 and to date there have been three complete phases of the programme (LIFE I: 1992-1995, LIFE II: 1996-1999 and LIFE III: 2000-2006). During this period, LIFE has co-financed some 3104 projects across the EU, contributing approximately 2.2 billion Euros to the protection of the environment.

About Partners

Development Enterprise (N.E.A.) is a Legal Entity under Private Law and constitutes a fully incorporated Development Enterprise of Western Greece Region.

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The University of Patras was founded in the city of Patras in 11th of November in1964 as a self-administered academic institution under the supervision of the Greek Government.

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Western Greece Region is one of the 13 regions of Greece.It consists of three Regional Entities (former Prefectures), Achaia, Ileia and Aitoloakarnania and 19 municipalities. The Western Greece Region as a regional authority is the main responsible actor for the design and implementation of policies regarding the sustainable development of Western Greece.

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