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Thu, 27/02/2025 – 10:07
The EU Green Electronics Working Group brings together representatives from Horizon Europe projects dedicated to promoting greener and more sustainable electronics across Europe. The goal is to enhance visibility and coordination between them and advance green electronics by developing innovative materials, next-generation manufacturing processes and improved recycling techniques.
The group first met in February 2024 and have come together online every month since then to work on their shared objectives.
They have several areas of interest:
- Best practices: the members of various EU projects share what they learn during the projects;
- Regulatory review: focusing on current EU regulations, such as the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR);
- Green electronics research: this involves reviewing ongoing research into green electronics and aligning research progress with evolving regulatory needs.
- Context and challenges: EU regulations, such as the ESPR and the Safe and Sustainable by Design Recommendation (SSbD), set ambitious goals to reduce the environmental impact of electronics and promote circularity. The group emphasises the need for harmonisation between regulations and research to drive effective innovation and achieve sustainability objectives across the electronics sector.
Innovation, policy alignment and sustainability are the watchwords of the EU Green Electronics Working Group, driving forward the EU’s vision for greener electronics. They are currently working on a paper on Defining and achieving next-generation greener electronics: a roadmap of best practices through the lens of hybrid printed electronics, to be released later this year.
A number of EU-funded projects in the field of functional electronics for the green and circular economy are members: SUINK, HyPELignum, REFORM, Sustain a Print, ECOTRON, UNICORN, SusFE, Circel-Paper, EECONE, BamBam, Circ-Uits and Sustronics.
You can follow the EU Green Electronics Working Group via its Linkedin page.
