• VALREO project on BiPoCo 2026 in Budapest, Hungary

    Laura Hanić, PhD student, participated in the BiPoCo 2026 conference (Bio-based Polymers & Composites), held from August 24 to 27 in Budapest, Hungary, where she gave an oral presentation entitled Isolation of lignin from hemp pomace using deep eutectic solvents under the mentorship of Prof. Marina Tišma, PhD. As part…
  • VALREO project presented at Adriatic NMR Conference in Rijeka, Croatia

    The Adriatic NMR 2026 conference was held in Rijeka from July 9 to 11, 2026, and the VALREO project was presented with an oral and poster presentation. Prof. Ph.D. Marina Tišma gave a lecture entitled NMR Spectroscopy as a Key Tool for the Characterization of Lignocellulosic Polymers from Food-Industry Side…
  • VALREO Project Presented at MPSU 2026 Conference in Poland

    The Modern Power Systems and Units: VII. International Scientific and Technical Conference – MPSU 2026 took place in Krakow, Poland, from 20 to 22 May 2026. At the conference, Pia Keršič, MSc. in Chemistry, presented the VALREO project from an environmental perspective, in an oral presentation titled Life cycle assessment…
  • VALREO project on 5th LA SDEWES conference in Columbia

    The 5th Latin American Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES) took place in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, from 18 to 21 January 2026. The conference was attended by  by the VALREO project, with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Petrovič participating with an oral presentation entitled Thermal…
  • 3rd VALREO workshop in Maribor, Slovenia

    On 8th and 9th January 2026, a workshop on lignocellulosic biorefineries was held in Maribor, Slovenia, organized by the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Maribor, and led by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Petrovič and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lidija Čuček. The workshop brought together research groups from Maribor…
  • VALREO project results presented at Slovenian Chemistry Days 2025 (SKD 2025)

    The VALREO project results were presented to the public again between 17th and 19th September 2025 in Portorož, Slovenia, this time with two poster presentations, one by the project leader, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Petrovič, the other by researchers Dr. Maja Čolnik and Full Prof. Dr. Mojca Škerget. The posters…
  • VALREO project presented at the TBMCE 2025 conference in Portorož as part of a plenary lecture and poster presentation

    From September 3rd to September 5th, 2025, a conference on Technologies and Business Models for Circular Economy - TBMCE 2025 was held in Portorož, Slovenia. At the conference, the VALREO project was presented in two ways, namely with an invited plenary lecture by Prof. Dr. Marina Tišma, project manager from…
  • VALREO partners successfully completed their work visit

    On 21.5. and 22.5., the VALREO project partners visited the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology of the University of Maribor for meetings and information exchange. The project leader from the University of Osijek, prof. dr. sc. Marina Tišma (PTFOS, UniOS, Croatia), and dr. Jelena Parlov Vuković (IRB, Zagreb, Croatia)…
  • The 2nd VALREO project workshop was successfully held at the Faculty of Food Technology Osijek

    The 2nd VALREO workshop of the "Lignocellulosic Biorefineries" project was held at the Faculty of Food Technology Osijek on February 17th, 2025. The workshop was opened by Prof. Dr. Sc. Marina Tišma (PTFOS, UniOS, Croatia) who presented the program and key topics of the workshop in the introductory part. Assoc.…
  • VALREO project presented in China

    Prof. Dr. Sc. Marina Tišma presented the VALREO project during her stay in China, which was funded by the CAS President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI). She gave the presentation at the Shanghai Research Institute (SARI), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Shanghai, and in three cities in the Chinese province…