Ecomondo 2022

November 8 -11, 2022, Rimini Trade Fair

From material and energy recovery to sustainable development: in a single platform, all sectors of the circular economy.

Driving the ecological transition: this is the 2022 mission of the 25th edition of the Ecomondo fair, which takes place at the same time as Key Energy, the two Italian Exhibition Group events dedicated to green technologies.

Developed on the more than 100,000 square meters of the entire fairgrounds, the two fairs stand as authoritative business and research platforms where public and private companies, local governments and the scientific world become protagonists.

Marking the exhibition time will be four key themes: waste management and valorization and its transformation into second raw material; circular bioeconomy and bioenergy; water resource treatment and management; remediation and redevelopment of contaminated and industrial brownfield sites; and hydrogeological risk. Thus, a wide variety of technologies will be on display: from metal recovery machinery to digital control solutions for water distribution; from regeneration technologies for soils and brownfield sites to 3D printers powered by bioplastics.

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While the Textile hub reproposes the focus on sustainable textile production, for the redevelopment of polluted sites and coastal regeneration, in Rimini, real Made in Italy excellences in environmental protection will exhibit, providing design services for major works.

Maximum attention will also be paid to food waste since, to achieve Goal 12 of Agenda 2030, institutions, companies and citizens must reduce food waste: Ecomondo will present technologies and best practices that combine food quality and waste reduction in the pre- and post-consumption phases.

After debuting in 2021, the Sanitation Village is also back, with solutions that are an integral part of prevention and health standards in public and private workplaces.

Also present will be Italian and international start-ups and scale-ups that, with innovative products or services, complete the supply chain of green technologies, from recycling to renewables, in partnership with ICE and ART-ER.

Worth mentioning is the large space reserved for debates: distinct for conferences on the PNRR and supply chain, also for the 2022 edition of Ecomondo prepares a calendar of conferences and seminars with experts, researchers, companies and national and international institutions with an increasing presence of the European Commission, which make the appointment of importance in the European and Mediterranean sphere on the front of innovation and policies of the ecological transition, also thanks to the work of the Technical Scientific Committee headed by Professor Fabio Fava of the University of Bologna.

Ecomondo, will host the 11th edition of the States General of the Green Economy promoted by the National Green Economy Council in collaboration with the Ministry of Ecological Transition and the patronage of the European Commission.

Finally, the appointment with the green&circular economy community will be enriched by the Africa Green Growth project. Acting as a catalyst for the construction of a network between Africa and Europe, facilitating the transfer of knowledge, technologies and concrete solutions, Ecomondo aims to create the conditions for increasing investment in Africa, accelerating the energy and ecological transition and including Italian companies within this market with two main focuses: “The sustainable future of Africa cities” and “Green Hydrogen”.