The new G3NIUS brand, the result of our LIFE Forture project, has been awarded the ‘Solar Impulse Efficient Solution’ label, proof of its high standards of profitability and sustainability. In order to address environmental challenges and enable economic growth, Bertrand Piccard has launched, through the Solar Impulse Foundation, the challenge of selecting 1000 profitable solutions...Read More

In the AFTER-LIFE phase, the project team continued with publications trying to understand and explain the role played by smart manufacturing techniques in the adoption of circular economy practices, and how to transform part of Big Data into Smart Data, focusing on the re-engineering of the product and input sourcing system in an operational environment with...Read More

The project team continued with dissemination activities and published a paper entitled “Technological Sustainability or Sustainable Technology? A Multidimensional Vision of Sustainability in Manufacturing” on the journal Sustainability MDPI. Products and processes, in addition to being environmentally and socio-economically sustainable, must also be technologically sustainable. In this regard, the paper constructed a theoretical basis for technological...Read More

With the conclusion of the LIFE Forture project, the team prepared a Layman’s report summarising the objectives and results achieved over the years. The document has been prepared in three languages: Italian, English and Spanish and is available here: Layman’s Report ITA Layman’s Report ENG Layman’s Report SPARead More

The final event of the LIFE Forture project has been a success. These are the numbers of Monday’s event: 142 participants 10 speakers 4 years of project reporting 2 guest LIFE projects 1 new brand presented We are very happy about the strong interest generated by the final event of the LIFE Forture project. In...Read More

Through this paper, the project team tried to answer these questions: How does risk management influence making decision process under uncertain conditions? How do risk management systems relate to sustainability management systems? The paper addresses in this way the issue of risk management, which is closely linked to sustainability management. The research is part of...Read More

The LIFE project is coming to an end. In order to present the results of these three years, the project team has organised a webinar on 24 May from 3pm to 5pm. The conference will be based on a number of speeches lasting less than 10 minutes, using simple and user-friendly language. The event will...Read More

The topic of economic sustainability is complex, but the project team tried to tackle it by applying Life Cycle Costing in a ceramic manufacturing context. With the paper “Adaptive Life Cycle Costing (LCC) Modeling and Applying to Italy Ceramic Tile Manufacturing Sector: Its Implication of Open Innovation”, the team proposes two theoretical models and an...Read More

The project team published a paper entitled “Dynamic life cycle assessment (LCA) integrating life cycle inventory (LCI) and Enterprise resource planning (ERP) in an industry 4.0 environment”. The paper, published in the journal “Journal of Cleaner Production”, describes the main results of the LIFE Forture project regarding the dynamic assessment of environmental sustainability. Journal link: https://bit.ly/3nLmULi...Read More

Recently, ICESP (Italian Platform of Actors for Circular Economy) promoted by ENEA (National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development) has recognised the results of the LIFE Forture project as an “Italian best practice for circular economy”, including the project in its database.  As a result, our project team will join some of the working groups on circularity issues, meeting periodically to develop reviews, technical reports...Read More