- Market-driven developments: Economic forces driving industry towards sustainablity!
- Technology-driven developments: New high-tech products need to be ecologically consicous!
- End-of-Life-driven developments: Towards remarketing, repair, re-use, refubishment, upgrading and recycling!
- Legislation driven developments: Impacts of WEEE, RoHS, EuP, REACH, ...
- Climate change & Energy-efficiency
- Industrial Ecology
Market-driven developments: Economic forces driving industry towards sustainability!
- Closed loop economy
- Green ICT
- Green Cars
- Global production with focus on Asia and East Europe
- How are sustainability indexes and large funds influencing the corporate attitude towards sustainability?
- What is the role of the individual “green” customers, consumer organizations and retail chains?
- Impact of ecological procurement strategies by governments, retailers and business partners
- Role of eco-taxes, eco-legislation and voluntary ecological programs influencing our industry
- Solutions for the spare part challenge
- Eco-labels and eco-standards for product declaration
- Eco-lifestyle & eco-marketing
- Global product and supply chain management
- Product Service Systems
- Sustainable business models
- Resource management
- Technology acceptance
- Response to public concerns
- Supplying future needs: mobility, health and global communication
- Dematerialisation (purchasing the service not the product)
- End of waste – when waste becomes a valuable resource
- Ecodesign – status on standardisation actions and business aspects
Technology-driven developments: New high-tech products need to be ecologically conscious!
- “Factory of the Future“
- Models and technologies enabling sustainable and efficient production
- Design for sustainability
- Eco-design, Eco-innovation, integrated product policy
- Eco-efficient life cycles of products (durability)
- Life Cycle Assessment, Life Cycle Costing, Life Cycle Engineering, Life Cycle Management
- Environmental measurements and performance indicators for products and processes
- Resource efficient and sustainable production processes
- Interdependencies between software and hardware-development
- The limitation and world-wide distribution of nano- and micro-metals - an underestimated problem
- Green nanotechnology
- Impacts of nano-technologies, nano-materials and nano-products on environment, health and safety
- Smart materials
- Biomaterials and bioinspired materials
- HFR free technologies
- BFR/CFR/PVC-free materials
End-of-Life-driven developments: Towards remarketing, repair, re-use, refurbishment, upgrading and recycling!
- Recycling issues of rare metals
- Eco-efficient take-back schemes and logistics for collection of used appliances
- Relation between environmental gain and costs of take-back systems
- Solutions to implement Individual Producer Responsibility (IPR)
- Eco-design as a tool to avoid waste disposal cost/design for disassembly and non-disassembly
- How can CRT-based TV-sets and computer monitors be recycled when less and less cathode ray tube glass is needed as raw material?
- Intelligent depollution and recycling of LCDs, TFTs, Plasmas and similar devices
- Identification, separation and recycling of plastics from WEEE and ELV
- Recycling of precious metals in End-of-Life-products
- Are the current recycling and recovery rates too low/high? Will re-use quota be feasible?
- Design for disassembly and recycling
- The positive effects of remanufacture, reconditioning and remarketing
- Renewed product for a renewable economy
- Maintenance, repair, remanufacturing
- Re-using and recycling products in 3rd World Countries – will this be the ultimate solution?
- State-of-the-art of WEEE and ELV treatment in less developed countries. How can this be improved?
- International shipments of e-waste - problems with the quantification and qualification of a growing problem
- Lacking global standardisation of WEEE material recycling - paving paths for free-riders
- Capacity building for re-use, refurbishment and recycling in industrializing and developing countries
- The role of software for re-use and refurbishment: will OSS make a change, especially in industrializing and developing countries?
- Inventories on best-practices in redesign, re-use and recycling
- Reverse Logistics
- Biotechnologies, hydro-metallurgy, … in waste treatment
Legislation driven developments: Impacts of WEEE, RoHS, EuP, REACH, …
- What is the current status of implementation of the WEEE and RoHS directives around the world? First experiences and lessons learned after more than 7 years operation of collective systems and individual solutions.
- Quality assurance in the implementation of the WEEE directive – what are governments, branch organizations, collective systems, individual producers, … doing?
- How can all the banned RoHS materials (lead, cadmium, chrome VI, mercury, brominated flame retardants) be substituted? What is the current status and will there be any threats to the environment because of this requirement?
- Will REACH bring any additional burdens to the electronics and automotive producers?
- RoHS and WEEE going international – a success story or concerns?
- Harmonization of producer register and information requirements in Europe and abroad
- Transboundary movement of waste from developed to less developed countries
- Social and political/legal barriers for re-use/refurbishment
- The impact of WEEE and RoHS on small and medium-sized suppliers around the world - an underestimated problem
- Towards a best-policy - comparative assessment of present legislation and policies
- The EuP directive in practice – status, best practice examples, pros and cons
- EuP directive and its existing and upcoming implementing measures
- Voluntary agreements from industry under the EuP directive
- Ecodesign in view of requirements from EuP directive
- Ecodesign as a business element for ensuring future competitiveness
- REACH and automotive/electronic industry - registration, notification
- Processes to get required REACH information from the global supply chain - best practice
- Compliance management
- Green Supply chain management
- Evaluation of environmentally conscious products & services (e.g. Life Cycle Assessment, Life Cycle Impact Assessment, Life Cycle Management, …)
Climate change & Energy-efficiency
- Carbon footprints, the Carbon Disclosure Project and the introduction of CO2-labels
- Standards on product carbon footprint - impacts and status of PAS2050 and ISO14067
- Carbon Offsetting – pros and cons, how to face CO2 Cowboys?
- Industrial excellence in energy
- Material sourcing impacts
- Avoidance of green house gases in production & products
- Use of renewable energy in production
- Energy-saving products, fuel cells, solar cells, human powered systems
- Products using renewable energy
- Products/concepts with reduced energy consumption in use phase
- Energy-efficient products
- Energy services
- Energy efficiency and savings
- Services for energy end-use efficiency
- Energy-efficient procurement and purchasing
- Alternative fuels and clean vehicles
- Smart energy networks
- Sustainable energy systems
- Energy storage systems
- Energy from renewables
- Balancing supply (wind, solar, bio) and demand
- Next generation photovoltaic-cell technology
- Biotechnologies in renewable energy
- Sustainable logistics
- Smart mobility
- Sustainable urban mobility
- Communication to consumers (education and data provision)
- Cooperation between stakeholders (partnerships)
- Sustainable consumption
- Designing sustainable cities – the urban and the social metabolisms
- Industrial ecology tools for sustainability
- Visions on new IE-based paradigms towards sustainability
- Sustainable resource management
- Industrial symbiosis
- Eco-design - products and services of the future
- Industrial ecology in developing countries
- Environmentally Extended Input Output Analysis
- Urban mining – waste as the resource of the future
Please mail abstracts for oral presentations, tutorials, invited sessions or posters (1 A4 page, pdf or doc) to info@care-electronics.net before May 31, 2010.
The abstracts must contain the conference topic, title, names of authors, affiliation and address!
| May 31, 2010 | Abstract Deadline |
| June 20, 2010 | Confirmation of accepted abstracts |
| July 31, 2010 | Deadline for submission of full paper |
| September 1, 2010 | Preliminary Program on the web |
| September 8, 2010 | Deadline for Pre-Registration discounts |
| October 1, 2010 | Deadline for exhibition booths |
| October 24, 2010 | Registration deadline |
| November 8, 2010 | Official opening |
International Symposium
Going Green – CARE INNOVATION 2010 is the only industry platform for presenting the up-to-date progress on sustainable development and the development of eco-efficient products. The International Symposium will compare the three major economic regions Europe, America and Asia with high level plenary speakers from global manufacturing industries, power suppliers, electricity generators and distributors, recycling and remarketing companies, research institutes and environmental & consumer organizations.
Leading industrialists, research directors, environmental experts and scientists will analyze the current situation of producer responsibility, environmentally-friendly product development, issues of resource depletion and conservation, industrial ecology, clean production, industrial symbiosis, green marketing, logistics, life-time extension and End-of-Life strategies.
Through a wide-range of presentations it will be discussed how industry can contribute in the area of sustainable development in general, and which products and technologies will be needed in particular.
Monday, November 8, 2010
- Registration
- Tutorials
- Special Workshops
- Company Meetings
- Tours to Leading Companies and Research Organisations in the Vienna Region
- Welcome Party
Thuesday, November 9, 2010
- Registration
- Opening Ceremony
- Key-note Lectures
- Opening of the Environmental Exhibition
- Technical Sessions
- Poster Sessions
- Evening Reception by the Mayor of Vienna
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
- Registration
- Technical Sessions
- Poster Sessions
- International Meeting Place
- Environmental Exhibition
- Dinner at a typical Viennese “Heuriger”
Thursday, November 11, 2010
- Registration
- Technical Sessions
- Poster Sessions
- International Meeting Place
- Environmental Exhibition
- Panel Discussion
Going Green – CARE INNOVATION 2010 can provide individuals seeking business and/or research partners as well as RTD funding (EUREKA, European Union, global initiatives) with an important point of first contact. This will be made possible by assistance with meeting bookings in advance of the event, and with private meeting facilities made available during the event.
Located directly within the conference area the exhibition is like a village market place: central point for communication, presentation of new ideas and catering. Companies are presenting their new products and services and research institutes are demonstrating their latest results in a Vienna coffee house like atmosphere.
Take the opportunity and present your products to a forum of the world’s leading companies in sustainability!
Technical Tours
On November 8, 2010 technical tours to leading manufacturing sites, recycling companies, experts in renewable energy as well as energy-efficiency and research organizations will be organized. These excursions will be arranged so that delegates can gain a practical insight into what is achievable and currently being achieved within industry.
