News

Latest news on the project:

4 June 2012:
Project team meeting in Utrecht 1 May 2012:

Two new deliverables are available on our documents page.

20 March 2012:
Stakeholder consultation on the DSS (Brussels). Report can be found here

Jan 30, 2012:
Our third PROSUITE newsletter is out

Why PROSUITE? The big picture

The Lisbon Strategy aims to make the European Union "the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy   (read more...)

What will PROSUITE offer?

PROSUİTE will provide tools to assess the economic, environmental and social dimensions of technologies in a standardized, comprehensive way.

The new tools, to be shared as free and open source software, will help SMEs, big industry and decision makers

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Focus on four high-profile new technologies

PROSUITE will deliver actual sustainability estimates for 4 technology cases, with close consultation of involved stakeholders.

The four case studies include:

• Biorefinery technology to produce energy from organic waste
• Nanotechnology focusing on nanoparticles in new textiles
• Carbon storage and sequestration technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and large-scale industrial sources
• Multifunctional mobile (telephone) devices containing rare metals that should be recycled