forture-life.eu – Force of the Future

Forture: The Force of the Future - EU Environment LIFE Programme

LIFE16 ENV/IT/000307

Summary

LIFE: Force of the Future (FORTURE) is a project that began in October 2017, aimed at developing a sustainable manufacturing model for the production of ceramic tiles, with the support of the EU LIFE Programme.

Background

Although technological development and the introduction of new technologies have contributed to reducing the environmental impacts of the ceramic sector, the environmental variable has not yet been fully incorporated into production processes.

Specific objectives

LIFE: Force of the Future aims to solve the criticality due to the static nature of impact assessments based on historical series and which prevent corrective actions on products and processes, and to facilitate the collection of data for calculation.

Main actions

LIFE: Force of the Future proposes to achieve the project objectives by combining the results of ten specific actions which will develop over time according to the programme shown in a gantt.

Expected results

LIFE: Force of the Future proposes to reach some tangible and quantifiable outcomes after its implementation. Find out more!

About Life

The LIFE programme is the EU’s funding instrument for the environment and climate action. The general objective of LIFE is to contribute to the implementation, updating and development of EU environmental.

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Results

What we want to achieve

E.1: Overall project management
The aim of this action is to plan and organise the activities necessary to achieve the project objectives and to prepare all technical, financial and administrative documentation.
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B.1: Design of a dynamic LCA+LCC+SLCA tool
This action represents the starting point of the project and it consists to develop a new approach to the production of ceramics tiles, based on the criteria of sustainability.
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B.4: Prototyping of sustainable ceramic tiles
The development program of this action provides the scale transition from laboratory tests to the preindustrialization of the output of the previous actions.
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B.6: Integration of LCA, LCC and SLCA for sustainable decision making model
This action aims to integrate the environment dimension, developed in action B1, in the dynamic instrument for the impact assessment, with socio-economic variables.
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D.1: Communication and Dissemination
The main objective of the dissemination activity is to spread awareness about the results obtained through the project, as well as enhancing consciousness towards environmental issues.
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C.1: Monitoring of the impact of project actions
The environmental and socio-economic impact on territory and stakeholders involved during the project will be monitored and evaluated and the effect of the actions will be assessed.
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Latest News

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13 Maggio 2022
Paper: Industry 4.0 real-world testing of dynamic organizational life cycle assessment (O-LCA) of a ceramic tile manufacturer
The project team has published a new paper that concludes the environmental impact analysis work of the LIFE Forture project. in...
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13 Aprile 2022
Paper: Social Organizational Life Cycle Assessment (SO-LCA) and Organization 4.0: an easy-to-implement method
In line with the previous publication in the Journal of Cleaner Production (D1.JournalofCleanerProduction 101221), the project team was invited to publish...
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15 Febbraio 2022
Chapter: Life cycle costing as a way to include economic sustainability in the circular economy. New perspectives from resource-intensive industries
One of the most complex issues companies must face in their sustainable development is dealing with the concept of economic sustainability....
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11 Dicembre 2021
Paper: Industry 4.0-based dynamic Social Organizational Life Cycle Assessment to target the social circular economy in manufacturing
At the end of 2021, the team continued with the publication of project results. The newly published paper dealt with social...
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22 Settembre 2021
G3NIUS awarded by the Solar Impulse Foundation
The new G3NIUS brand, the result of our LIFE Forture project, has been awarded the ‘Solar Impulse Efficient Solution’ label, proof...
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The Principle

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Roman statesman
Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

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Galileo Galilei
Italian scientist
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

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José Ortega y Gasset
Spanish philosopher, and essayist

Expected results

what we want achieve

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Atmospheric emissions

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Pollutants related to transports

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Ceramic waste and related costs

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Energy consumption

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Environmental damage