Hilde Crevits has awarded 430.000 euro to CAPTURE, a Ghent University, VITO, UAntwerp and VUB research platform for CO2, plastics and water recycling.
Guaranteeing the availability of good-quality water, transforming spent plastics into a resource, transforming CO2 into useful products. These are the 3 main challenges that CAPTURE has set itself. the CAPTURE initiative started in 2015 and grew out of interdisciplinary collaboration between several young and dynamic professors from 3 different faculties at Ghent University. In 2019, VITO and the University of Antwerp joined the initiative, followed by Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2020. As a result more than 300 researchers now collaborate within the organization, working on projects with more than 100 companies. ...