Plenary lectures

• Prof. Katja Loos (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
  Unleashing the Potential of Enzymes for Green Furan-Based Polymer Synthesis
• Prof. Anthony Ryan (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
  Neofossils: durable, net-negative, bio-based plastics for scalable carbon capture and sequestration
• Prof. Haritz Sardon (POLYMAT University of the Basque Country, Spain)
  Understanding the Critical Aspects in the Chemical Recycling of Plastics to Facilitate the Recycling of Complex Plastic Waste Streams
• Dr. Bernhard von Vacano (BASF, Germany)
  Polymer recycling and sustainability at scale

Invited lectures

• Prof. Filomena Barreiro (University of Braganca, Portugal)
  Natural polymer-based Pickering emulsions: from particle production to innovative applications
• Prof. Jannick Duchet-Rumeau (INSA Lyon, France)
  PVC : a material of tomorrow?
• Prof. Paola Fabbri (University of Bologna, Italy)
  The "full-bio" strategy: The relevance of functional bio-based additives for the formulation of innovative plastics
• Prof. Jean-Francois Gérard (INSA Lyon, France)
  Being repairable as one of the features of sustainable polymers for circular economy – Illustration for high performances thermoset matrices
• Prof. Robin Hutchinson (Queen's University, Canada)
  Incorporation of biorenewable monomers to acrylic resins produced by radical copolymerization
• Prof. Maider Iturrondobeitia (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
  End of life of polymer based products and environmental impact assessment
• Prof. Li Jia (University of Akron, USA)
  Carbonylative Polymerizations – A Potential Platform for Sustainable Commodity Plastics
• Dr. Igor Krupa (Center for Advanced Materials, Qatar University, Qatar)
  Utilization of recycled polyethylene waste for oil in water separation
• Dr. Maria Kurańska (Cracow University of Technology, Poland)
  Chemical recycling of biopolyurethane foams in line with the circular economy concept
• Prof. Igor Lacík (Polymer Institute, Bratislava, Slovakia)
  Radical polymerization in aqueous solutions
• Prof. Sebastien Livi (INSA Lyon, France)
  Design of new degradable networks using cleavable ionic liquid monomers
• Prof. Alexander Shaplov (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg)
  High performance self-catalyzed epoxy-amine vitrimers for sustainable composites
• Prof. Andrew T. Slark (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
  Dissociative Diels-Alder Networks and Hybrids with Non-Covalent Interactions
• Prof. Ian Teasdale (Institute of Polymer Chemistry, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria)
  Amino acid-phosphoramides: Biodegradable synthetic polymers from nature's building blocks

Awards

	supports three poster presentation awards
	supports one oral presentation award for young researchers
	support one oral and one poster presentation award for PhD students

Time schedule

Registration and all lectures take place at the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry.