AGENDA

1. Progetto: LIFE10 ENV/IT/000364 «ECOFATTING»«Environmentally friendly natural products instead of cloroparaffines in the fatting phase of the tanning cycle» Start: 01/01/2012 End: 31/12/2013 13/06/2013 18 month meeting Elda – Alicante (Spain) INESCOP premises

2. AGENDA • 09:30 [INESCOP] Welcome and opening of the meeting • 09:35 [All] Actions carried out by each partner and scheduled activities from January 2013 until the end of May 2013. • 10:30 [All] Open discussion on actions carried out • 11:00 [All] Coffee break

3. AGENDA • 11:15 [All] ECOFATTING Technical future issues: • [ICCOMCNR] Technical activities scheduled in the next six months of the project (project end) • [All] Open discussion on actions to be carried out in the next six months of the project (project end) • 12:00 [ICCOMCNR] Management and dissemination issues • 12:40 [All] General questions • 12:50 End of progress meeting • 13:00 Tour of INESCOP premises

4. Actions carried out by each partner ACTIONS

5. Actions carried out by each partner ACTIONS

6. Technical Actions carried out by each partner in the last six months • ACTION 3: Natural products demonstration and evaluation • ACTION 4: Environmental demonstration of natural products at laboratory level • ACTION 5: Fatting at a semi-industrial level by using natural products • ACTION 6: Environmental demonstration of natural products fatting at a pre-industrial level

7. Technical Actions carried out by each partner in the last six months • ACTION 7: Environmental demonstration of hides fatted with natural products • ACTION 8: Study of the demonstration about the environmental benefits from the natural products fatting process • ACTION 9: Quality assessment of leather products production

8. Technical Actions carried out by each partner Presentations of: • ICCOMCNR • COLORTEX • ENEA • SERICHIM • INESCOP

9. Technical Actions carried out by each partner • [All] Open discussion on actions carried out

10. Dissemination activities • ACTION 13: Material preparation for workshop • ACTION 14: Diffusion material preparation • ACTION 15: Training course for Italian tanneries • ACTION 16: Training course for Spanish tanneries • ACTION 19: International fairs and other events • ACTION 20: Digital supports for international diffusion • ACTION 21: International diffusion and dissemination

11. Dissemination activities • ACTION 13: Material preparation for workshop • Logo definition and design • ICCOMCNR produced 1 banner in Italian and 1 banner in English • ICCOMCNR produced 400 eco bags as project gadget • ICCOMCNR produced 1 roll up • ICCOMCNRproducedanofficial ECOFATTING powerpointpresentation in English tobeused in events • ICCOMCNR produced 200 brochures in Italian and 200 brochures in English • Inescopdisseminationmaterials (poster, presentation, etc.)

12. Dissemination activities • ACTION 14: Diffusion material preparation • ICCOMCNR produced 12 ECOFATTING Notice boards • ICCOMCNR produced 200 brochures in Italian and 200 brochures in English • ICCOMCNR carried out two TV interviews with local TV agencies • Press contacts and articles related to ENEA event for the 20th Anniversary of the LIFE Programme, Faenza, June 21st, 2012: three press releases have been made by ENEA, two of which published into the ENEA official web site (sections “Eventi” and “News”) and one disseminated through mayor local newspapers.

13. Dissemination activities • ACTION 14: Diffusion material preparation • ICCOMCNR was responsible of the edition of 1 article edited by a Pisa local newspaper • From January to August 2012, INESCOP presented the project through the newsletters that are distributed in electronic and paper form to INESCOP’s member companies (mainly tanneries and footwear and leather goods manufacturers) • INESCOP activities

14. Dissemination activities • ACTION 15: Training course for Italian tanneries • COLORTEX organised a training course specifically aimed at tanning companies on May 31st

15. Dissemination activities • ACTION 16: Training course for Spanish tanneries • A training course specifically aimed at tanning companies will be held at INESCOP premises on June 20th

16. Dissemination activities • ACTION 19: International fairs and other events • ECOFATTING power point and video presentations at the Italian Celebration Day for the 20th Anniversary of the LIFE Programme, Brescia, May 25th, 2012 • ECOFATTING power point presentation at “XXII Settimana della Cultura Scientifica a Tecnologica” in Faenza, Aprile 18th, 2012 • ENEA, in networking with ECOFATTING LIFE10 ENV/IT/365, presented a poster in the 3rd International Conference on Industrial and Hazardous Waste Management which was hold in Chania (Crete, GR) on September 12-14th, 2012.

17. Dissemination activities • ACTION 19: International fairs and other events • ICCOM-CNR presented ECOFATTING in three national meetings: • - XXI National Meeting of Italian Society of Pure and Applied Biophysics (SIBPA), 17-20 September 2012; • XXIII National Meeting of Analytical Chemistry, Italian Chemical Society, La Biodola (Elba), 16-20 September 2012: the description of part of the results of Action 1 were presented in a published abstract and in a poster.Possibleparticipation at Uruguay event • Po.Te.Co. (Polo tecnologico conciario) in Castelfranco di sotto (PI), 10/12/2012

18. Dissemination activities • ACTION 19: International fairs and other events • INESCOP presented the project in different national and international fairs listed below: • - 21st Edition of ECOFIRA 2012, International Fair of Environmental Solutions. Valencia (Spain), 29th February – 2nd March 2012. • - 12th Edition of Green Week, Brussels (Belgium), 22nd – 25th May 2012 • - Conference in Green Week Satellite events; “Regional responses to the EU2020 on water. Lessons learned through European projects”, FCVRE, Brussels (Belgium), 22nd May 2012. • - 1st Water, Waste and Energy Management, Salamanca (Spain), 23rd – 25th May 2012

19. Dissemination activities • ACTION 19: International fairs and other events • - Industrial Technologies Congress, 2012, Aarhus (Denmark), 19th – 21st June 2012 • - 18th Congress of the Latin American Federation of Leather Chemists and Technologists, Montevideo (Uruguay), 9th - 11th October 2012. • - 28th Edition of the International Footwear Fair, FUTURMODA, Alicante, (Spain), 30th – 31st October 2012 • - 29th Edition of the International Footwear Fair, FUTURMODA, Alicante (Spain), 17th – 18th April de 2013. • - 62nd Congress of the Spanish Leather Chemists Association AQEIC; Lorca – Murcia (Spain), 10th – 11th May 2013 • - LIFE+ Networking Event, Valencia (Spain), 14th May 2013

20. Dissemination activities • ACTION 20: Digital supports for international diffusions • ENEA is the project responsible for the selection of external service video expert for the collection and mixing of each associated beneficiary activities video and production of the global ECOFATTING video. • In this project period ENEA started all the internal procedures for the external service video expert selection.

21. Dissemination activities • ACTION 21: International diffusion and dissemination • ECOFATTING website in Italian, English and Spanish: www.pi.iccom.cnr.it/ecofatting/it • ICCOMCNR produced 1 roll up • ICCOMCNRproducedanofficial ECOFATTING powerpointpresentation in English tobeused in events • ICCOMCNR and ENEA articles • ICCOMCNR carried out two TV interviews with local TV agencies • Cluster with OXATAN, SHOELAW, PODEBA, SOREME, BioNaD, CLEANSED, After-Cu, MICROTAN, C02SHOE, SHOEBAT and BIOREM (LIFE 09-10-11-12 projects)

22. Dissemination activities

23. Management activities • ACTION 23: Project management • ACTION 24: Monitoring • ICCOMCNR has continuous contact with all project partners for monitoring project activities • ICCOMCNR prepares and sends a monthly summary (each 28th) of the project activities carried out to monitoring representant • ICCOMCNR needs to receive from each partner technical inputs before each 28th

24. ECOFATTING Technical future issues • ACTION 6: Environmental demonstration of natural products fatting at a pre-industrial level • ACTION 7: Environmental demonstration of hides fatted with natural products • ACTION 8: Study of the demonstration about the environmental benefits from the natural products fatting process • ACTION 9: Quality assessment of leather products production • ACTION 10: Demonstration of technical-economic viability • ACTION 11: Natural products fatting manual • ACTION 12:Leather sample books of hides fatted with natural products

25. ECOFATTING Technical future issues • ACTION 6: Environmental demonstration of natural products fatting at a pre-industrial level • Description: • The leather produced in previous Actions will be tanned with the natural products technique in the fatting phase by means of collaborating with Italian and Spanish tanneries that will be selected from those interested. ICCOMCNR will conduct a product assessment of the leather samples produced with the new method and will finalize the environmental product characterization of the leather produced with the treated leather.

26. ECOFATTING Technical future issues • Methods employed: • COLORTEX, SERICHIM and INESCOP will be involved in: • Industrial-scale production of sheep/goat leather treated with innovative natural products formulations in the fatting phase. • Product characterization. • Industrial-scale production of bovine leather treated with innovative natural products formulations in the fatting phase.. • Product characterization. • ICCOMCNR and ENEA will be involved in: • Environmental assessment of the new fatting process in tanning cycle using internationally accepted standards.

27. ECOFATTING Technical future issues • Expected results: • sheep/goat skins leathers tanned with the use of natural products in the fatting phase. • bovine skins leathers tanned with the use of natural products in the fatting phase. • analysis of the environmental impact from the hide tanning process by using natural products instead of cloroparaffines in the fatting phase

28. ECOFATTING Technical future issues • ACTION 7: Environmental demonstration of hides fatted with natural products • Description: • The hides produced by the Italian and Spanish tanneries will be used by Italian and Spanish leather manufacturer companies, chosen from those interested, to manufacture different leather products. Immediately afterwards, a comparison will be made between the natural products fatted hides and cloroparaffines fatted hides, taking into account the voluntary limits imposed by the European Eco-label for ecological criteria (Decision 2002/231/CE) and other chemical parameters of environmental interest (pH, etc.). To achieve this, validations of harmful substances that could be present in hides will be carried out. The validation results will be written in a report.

29. ECOFATTING Technical future issues Methods employed: • ICCOMCNR, INESCOP and ENEA will be involved in: • Production of different types of leather products • Validations of harmful substances in hides based on international standards. • Expected results: • 100 leather products elaborated with natural products fatted leathers. • Production of more environmentally friendly leather products, that complies with the European Eco-label criteria

30. ECOFATTING Technical future issues • ACTION 8: Study of the demonstration about the environmental benefits from the natural products fatting process All the information gathered from earlier actions, as well as results and conclusions, will be logged in a study. To achieve this, INESCOP will send reports to ICCOMCNR in which the results will be contained from the production validations carried out in the Spanish companies, as well as the results of the comparison between leather products manufactured from natural products fatted hides and cloroparaffines fatted hides. This study will contain photos of the leather products manufactured, and will contain samples of natural products tanned hides at a semi-industrial and pre-industrial level.

31. ECOFATTING Technical future issues • ACTION 9:Quality assessment of leather products production A check will be made to verify that hides fatted with natural products satisfy leather products quality standards. To achieve this, physical validations (tensile strength, resistance to wear, contraction temperature, etc.) will be carried out on hides produced to manufacture leather products in Italy and in Spain. These validations will be carried out in COLORTEX, SERICHIM and INESCOP laboratories, which are equipped to carry out these types of assessments. The results will be logged in a report.

32. ECOFATTING Technical future issues • ACTION 10:Demonstration of technical-economic viability • This Action will foresee a deep analysis in order to prove that hides tanned with the new natural products method comply with quality standards and are economically viable.

33. ECOFATTING Technical future issues • ACTION 11:Natural products fatting manual • This Action will foresee the production of a formative manual which explains how to apply the new natural products fatting technique to the industrial process in tanneries.

34. ECOFATTING Technical future issues • ACTION 12:Leather sample books of hides fatted with natural products • This Action will foresee the production of hide sample books tanned with the new natural products fatting technique, which can be shown at different events.

35. ECOFATTING Technical future issues • [All] Open discussion on actions to be carried out in the next six months of the project

36. ECOFATTING Dissemination future issues for the next six months • ACTIONS 13-22: Update In particular: • Action 13: production ofnewmaterials • Action 14: production ofnewarticles and technicalarticles • Action 15: OK • Action 16: OK • Action 17: workshop in October-November in Colortex • Action 18: workshop in October-November in INESCOP • Action 19: participation at new 4 events • Action 20: ENEA will produce a video in 3 languages (English, Spanish and Italian) in which the ECOFATTING projects results will be shown. • Action 21: production ofnew 5 posters • Action 22: ICCOMCNR, with the support of all the partners, will produce the “After-LIFE Communication Plan”

37. ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES • Next Deliverables • Progress Report submitted • Partner cost analysis • Monitoring Team visit • Final Report • Audit • Next meeting

38. NEXT DELIVERABLES • Semi-industrial level: Action 5 • Pre-industrial level: Action 6 • Environmental demonstration: Actions 7-8 • Study of technical-economic viability: Action 10 • Videos: Action 20 • Articles and press releases: Actions 14, 21 • Dissemination materials: Action 13-22 • Layman report: Action 20 • After-LIFE Communication Plan: Action 23 • Audit report: Action 25 • Final Report: Technical, Dissemination and Financial documents

39. ICCOMCNR at the end of May 2013 has submitted the foreseen Progress Report to the EC and Monitoring Team, made up by: • Progress report with the summary of technical, administrative and dissemination project issues • Dissemination Annex • Deliverables Progress Report

40. Partner cost analysis

41. Monitoring team visit • The Monitoring Team (LudovicoSusani) will visit ICCOMCNR on 28th of June for checking the progress of the project technical activities and the administrative documents • LudovicoSusani requested the presence only of ICCOMCNR and COLORTEX for checking the technical activities • Please send to ICCOMCNR all the updated administrative documents before 20th of June

42. Final Report • ICCOMCNR willberesponsibleof the production of the Final report whichwillbemade up by: • Progress report with the summary of technical, administrative and dissemination project issues • Dissemination Annex • Deliverables • Financial forms with all the originals signatures from each partner • Audit document • The EC ok of the Final report will produce the project final payment from the EC

43. Audit • ICCOMCNR willberesponsiblefor the production ofanauditdocumentsignedbyanexternalauthorised auditor (alreadyselected) whichwillcertifyall the project financial data. • The selected auditor willcheckall the partner financial data and willbe free torequesttoeach partner more detaileddocuments.

44. Project meetings • Project meetings • 1st Kick off meeting in COLORTEX in Italy in January 2012 • 2nd Coordination meeting in ICCOMCNR in Italy in June 2012 • 3rd Coordination meeting in SERICHIM in Italy in January 2013 • 4th Coordination meeting in INESCOP in Spain in June 2013 • NextFinal Project meeting • 5th Coordination meeting in ICCOMCNR in Spain in December 2013