ECOMONDO is the reference international event in Europe and the Mediterranean basin for technologies, services and industrial solutions in the green and circular economy sectors.
ECOMONDO will bring together all sectors of the circular economy, from material and energy recovery to sustainable development. The expo attracts over 100,000 visitors and 1,000 exhibitors and proposes an extensive programme of conferences, seminars and events.
- clean technology | climate change policy | climate change
- Tuesday 4 November 2025, 09:00 - Friday 7 November 2025, 18:30 (CET)
- Italy
- External event
Practical information
- When
- Tuesday 4 November 2025, 09:00 - Friday 7 November 2025, 18:30 (CET)
- Where
- THE RIMINI EXPO CENTREItaly
- Languages
- English, Italian
- Website
- ECOMONDO 2025
Description
This year, CINEA will be joining forces with EISMEA to represent the European Commission in a shared stand and represent the key funding programmes for the green and digital transition. They will host EU-funded projects at the EU stand, organise thematic sessions, and one-to-one meetings.
ECOMONDO visitors will have the opportunity to meet and listen directly from successful projects and companies about how European funds helped them bring their innovative ideas to life. The full list of participating projects will be available later on in the summer.
Additionally, CINEA & EISMEA representatives are coordinating a series of thematic sessions that will take place at ECOMONDO as part of the official scientific programme. The full program will be published at a later stage.
Sessions and speakers
Wednesday 5 November
10:00-13:15
The Prospects of the European Green Economy in the New international context (Sala Neri 1 - South Hall)
Paloma Aba Garrote, Director (CINEA)
11:45-13:00
EU funding for green & blue transition projects – a world of possibilities (Innovation Arena - South Hall)
Aneta Willems, Head of Department (CINEA)
14:30-15:15
LIFE MUSCLES PROJECT Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Mussel Farming (Tulipano Room, Pavillion B6)
Aneta Willems, Head of Department (CINEA)
16:30-17:30
Green Assist: Unlocking your green investment projects (Diotallevi 2 - South Hall)
Krzystof Dziecielak, Financial Engineering Manager (CINEA)
Thursday 6 November
10:00-11:00
Presentation of EU Funded beneficiaries (Tulipano Room - Pavillion 6)
10:00-12:00
Blue Horizons: Trans-Mediterranean Cluster Collaboration for Innovation in Energy, Clean Tech, and Bioeconomy
Luca Marangoni, Deputy Head of Unit (CINEA)
EU Stand
The EU stand will feature over 20 projects supported by CINEA and EASME which will showcase their achievements and detail how EU-funding played a pivotal role in realising their objectives.
| CINEA Programme | Name of Project | Description | Links |
| EMFAF | BOUTCAR | To achieve effective Blue Growth, highly qualified & competent PROFESSIONAL FIGURES are needed. This is exactly what BOUTCAR intends to generate, by developing training, updating and requalification paths, intercepting young talents and thus generating a new impetus for the fishing and aquaculture. | |
| EMFAF | FISATUR | FISATUR promotes maritime and aquaculture heritage through sustainable tourism in Atlantic coastal regions. It fosters sector diversification by supporting local entrepreneurship, valorising artisanal fishing, and enabling transnational cooperation through an Atlantic network and trade missions. | |
| EMFAF | BLUE PORTS | Empowering human capital within the port ecosystem BLUE PORTS drives a robust and sustainable green transition. Through a tested EU-recognised training & certification scheme tested, it delivers a strategic advantage to the workforce. BLUE PORTS shapes the next generation of maritime professionals. | |
| LIFE | LIFE RE-SHOES | SCARPA presents Re-Shoes: Giving Old Footwear a New Life Through Circular Innovation. Every year, the project introduces a new circular business model: used shoes and manufacturing scraps are collected, sorted, and recycled to create a new SCARPA shoe model. | |
| LIFE | LIFE TURBINES | LIFE TURBINES promotes sustainable cities and the decarbonisation of drinking water supply through the installation of turbination equipment in urban supply networks, generating 995 MWh/year, saving 0.972 GWh and avoiding 258 tonnes of CO₂ equivalent. | |
| LIFE | LIFE CDW CIRCLE | The LIFE CDW CIRCLE project using innovative optical sorting technology, the heart of the pilot plant, to upcycle C&D waste into high-value aggregates and bricks. We are closing the loop in the construction sector by creating a market for high-quality secondary raw materials. | |
| LIFE | LIFE ANHIDRA | LIFE ANHIDRA develops a water reuse system for textile washing, saving up to 92% of water and cutting CO₂ emissions by 44%. It treats wastewater efficiently in-situ in a close-loop system and reuses fiber waste, promoting sustainability and circular economy in the textile industry. | |
| LIFE | LIFE NATURA AGRO | Following the guidelines promoted by the EC (farm2fork) the project intends to promote formulations without copper but with essential oils in the presence of a biocompatible carrier to combat some fungal diseases with severe impact on the farmer's economy such as downy mildew and GTD. | |
| Horizon EU | Bio-MeGaFuel | Bio-MeGaFuel project develops an efficient and scalable process to convert low-value biomass into methanol with a near-zero carbon footprint. The proposed process maximizes efficiency, reduces the number of production steps, and lowers product cost to meet the rising demand for sustainable methanol. | |
| Horizon EU | H2SHIFT | H2SHIFT project supports startups and SMEs technology transfer from lab to industry with open access to infrastructures for hydrogen production testing, upscaling, and support services. It promotes innovation in advanced electrolysis, bio- and solar-H2, aiming to boost EU leadership in H2. | |
| Horizon EU | SINCERE | SINCERE develops innovative ICT tools, energy harvesting technologies and low-carbon building materials for structural and thermal retrofitting of built heritage, enabling enhancement of energy performance for historic buildings, with respect to their cultural, historical, and technological values. | Website |
| Innovation Fund | TANGO | The TANGO project will develop an industrial-scale pilot line in the South of Italy for the manufacture of innovative, high-performance PV modules, increasing production capacity from 200 MW to 3 GW p.a., with the potential to avoid up to 25 Mt CO2e emissions in 10 year operation. | |
| Innovation Fund | SC-HOOP | SC-HOOP Project indicates the realisation of the chemical recycling plant at Mantova, Italy. The plant is based on Versalis’ proprietary pyrolysis technology named HOOP® that turn secondary material derived from recycled mixed plastic waste into a recycled naphtha to produce new intermediates as well as polymers suitable for all applications, with benefits in terms of process sustainability, yield, higher feedstock flexibility and quality. | Website |
| Innovation Fund | MoReTec-1 | Fully electrified chemical recycling of plastic waste for deep decarbonisation of the polymer industry. With its proprietary MoReTec advanced recycling technology, LYB aims to return post-consumer plastic waste to its molecular form. This will be used as a feedstock for new plastic materials. | Website |
| Green Assist | CLEAN AIR | APA is a unique, multi-purpose, water-based DAC (direct air capture) technology that simultaneously captures particles, chemicals, and gases. The absorption of ammonia, methane, and CO2 is highly relevant to the agri-farming, enabling services that support biodiversity and the carbon credit markets. | |
| Connecting Europe Facility | Clean Cities | Clean Cities is a program focused on developing hydrogen refuelling infrastructure in Poland. Phase I delivered a hydrogen source and 3 HRS. In Poznań,25 hydrogen buses are fuelled daily. Phases II and III will add 21 stations by 2027. ORLEN secures offtake via agreements with public transport operators. |