Industry 4.0 flexible workstations equipped with robots are becoming more popular. Part of this trend is the progressive introduction of smart robots to perform repetitive tasks, freeing up employees to assume functions requiring a greater skill or more tasks. Novel skills and new type of jobs are needed in the green economy and NOVUM intends to promote their generation by knowledge sharing, especially among the young people, still at school or in the early stages of their education or professional lives.

The new technologies evaluated in NOVUM are expected to have a high resource and energy efficiency, so the ambition of the project is to achieve great reduction ratios in consumptions and environmental impacts, including greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.  Cellulose-based materials employed are potentially renewable and recyclable, helping to the sustainability and efficiency of resource consumption.

Inspired by the principles of Circular Economy and the SPIRE-PP association, strives to drive a local economy (resources and product consumption locally-based), firstly in its demonstration pilot plant and in the industries exploiting project’s results, strengthening the socio-economic tissue. Moreover, since the raw materials needed by the plant and the insulation products will be locally consumed, many indirect jobs up and downstream will be created.