📅 October 2, 2025 | 🕚 11:00–12:30 CET | 💻 Online
How can European industries cut energy costs, reduce emissions, and boost efficiency all at the same time?
Join us for the first webinar organised by the 2cool2waste projects cluster, to discover concrete solutions and business cases from 11 Horizon Europe projects on renewable energy, waste heat recovery, and advanced thermal management.
What to expect:
🔹 How industrial processes can become more sustainable and flexible
🔹 Insights from leading researchers and innovators
🔹 Real demonstrations and success stories across different sectors
This 90-minute session features short, impactful presentations and showcases practical technologies ready to make a difference.
Draft agenda
| Project | Speaker | Presentation title |
| GEOSYN | Paride Gullo, University of Southern Denmark, SDU | GEOSYN heat pump: cutting costs and boosting efficiency in energy intensive industries. |
| HEATWISE | Cagatay Yilmaz, RISE | Reutilisation of digital world’s side product: waste heat valorisation of data centres. From Bits to Sustainable Cities: Reusing the Heat of the Digital Age. |
| HYCOOL IT | Marcello Aprile | Hycool-it: waste heat from server room in tertiary buildings – A case study. |
| MODERATOR | Dr. Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, CERTH, Centre for Research & Technology, Hellas | Turning Waste into Value: MODERATOR’s approach to Heat Recovery in Data Centres. |
| Push2Heat | Carolina Pastor De Paz | Unlocking Waste Heat Potential with PUSH2HEAT: Strategies and Business Models for Industrial Decarbonization. |
| RE-WITCH | Michael Strobel, JER | RE-WITCH project – Renewable and Waste heat valorisation in Industries via Technologies for Cooling production. |
| SEEDS | Rongling Li, DTU | Electrified heating and cooling solutions to improve energy efficiency and demand flexibility. |
| Senergy Nets | Renato Luise | Optimizing Multi-Energy Systems for enhancing flexibility and reducing environmental impact: the SENERGY NETS Demo Cases. |
| SPIRIT | Simon Spoelstra, TNO | Presentation of the three SPIRIT demonstration sites → High-temperature heat pumps integration in the food & beverage and paper & pulp industry. |
| SUSHEAT | Ruben Barbero | SUSHEAT: High-Temperature Heat Pumps & Thermal Energy Storage for Efficient Heat Recovery |
| THUNDER | Luca Socci, University of Florence UNIFI | The THUNDER experience: heat pumps and energy storage for data centre waste heat valorisation. |
