A.SPIRE aisbl
A.SPIRE is the European Association committed to managing and implementing the Processes4Planet co-programmed Partnership, transforming the European process industries towards circularity, climate neutrality, and competitiveness. The association represents innovative process industries, with over 170 industrial and research members from more than 20 European countries. A.SPIRE brings together world-leading sectors operating from Europe, including cement, ceramics, chemicals, engineering, minerals and ores, non-ferrous metals, pulp and paper, refining, steel, and water. The mission of A.SPIRE is to ensure the development of enabling technologies and best practices across all stages of large-scale existing value chain production, contributing to a resource-efficient process industry.
About the partnership
Within the THESEUS project, A.SPIRE’s added value will be fostering synergies with existing Processes4Planet funded Hubs4Circularity projects, specifically in the types of similar technologies as in THESEUS. This action will ensure connecting urban, industrial and research stakeholders engaged in the development of H4Cs across Europe, sharing know-how and common tools. The result will be the development of the Common H4C guidelines: a consultative document aimed at giving the first insights to what it means to develop a H4C from the industrial perspective, providing technical and technological guidelines, ways of assessing viability of a hub, etc. It will also include a checklist or roadmap for newcomers launching their H4C and ultimately allowing for mature technologies, or a combination thereof, to be deployed to other Hubs and, eventually, widespread market adoption.
Meet the Team
Mariagiovanna Carpinteri
Project Manager
Mariagiovanna Carpinteri is an experienced project manager that during last years has been focusing her career on contributing to the achievement of the European Green Deal goals. With a diversified academic background from International relations, economic development and human rights, Mariagiovanna started her professional calling in the international project management field, building up her expertise in the EU project and progamme management. In A.SPIRE, she’s responsible of the management of projects aimed at fostering innovation, climate neutrality and competitiveness in the European process industry field.
Vladiana Petarlecean
Communication and Project Management Assistant
Vladiana Petarlecean is a communications professional with a degree in Journalism. As the Communication and Project Management Assistant at A.SPIRE, Vladiana contributes to designing and implementing the association’s communication strategy, manages dissemination activities for EU-funded projects, oversees social media channels, and creates compelling materials, including press releases, articles, newsletters, and social media posts, ensuring impactful outreach and engagement.
Funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Actions programme under grant agreement No 101095303, under topic HORIZON-CL4-2024-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-38 – Hubs for circularity for industrialised urban peripheral areas (Processes4Planet partnership) (IA).
