Study visits to ASTURIAS PARADISE HUB 4 CIRCULARITY pilot plants

The study visit programme designed by SEKUENS, supports university master’s courses related to industrial circularity.

Asturias Paradise Hub 4 Circularity manages the network of R&D pilot plants that replicate processes applicable to waste recycling. Public and private owners of R&D pilot plants have opened their doors to postgraduate students thanks to the mediation of SEKUENS.

The activity aims to attract the attention of future researchers to valorisation technologies.For this purpose, an educational collaboration agreement was signed between SEKUENS and the University of Oviedo.

Each academic year, the master's coordinator asks to organize a visit for the students
as part of one of the master's subjects. A search engine on the SEKUENS website allows the selection of pilot plants, as it describes their equipment, tested applications, input and output streams, capacity and operating models.

Next, the owner of the plant prepares a fact sheet on the operation of the facility and arranges the date of the visit. The visit is led in by the plant technicians in either Spanish or English.

After the visit, the students complete a graded assignment, the content of which relates to alternative uses of the pilot plant in circular economy applications, focusing on areas of interest agreed between the facility owner and the teacher.
Finally, a visit report is published on the SEKUENS website.