Scientific Director of the LSIWC Participates in the COST Action REINVENT Core Group Meeting in Vienna

Photo: Universität Wien. Publicity material.

Photo: Universität Wien. Publicity material.

On 24 February 2026, the Scientific Director of the Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry (LSIWC), Dr. sc. ing. Uģis Cābulis, participated in the Core Group meeting of the COST Action REINVENT (Resource-Inclusive Renewable Materials: Leveraging Global Biomass for Sustainable Innovations), held at the University of Vienna.

During the meeting, in-depth discussions focused on the strategic objectives of the Action and its key priorities for the next four years. REINVENT brings together expertise from diverse scientific fields with the aim to:

  • systematise and integrate knowledge from different research domains, defining new methodologies;

  • advance bio-based material innovations from laboratory scale to industrial readiness levels;

  • develop high-level multidisciplinary training and promote holistic approaches;

  • strengthen collaboration between academia and the bioeconomy industry to ensure that scientific results translate into practical applications.

The REINVENT structure consists of five Working Groups:

  • Working Group 1 (WG1) – Raw materials and resource-agnostic processing technologies;

  • Working Group 2 (WG2) – Material properties;

  • Working Group 3 (WG3) – Techno-economically viable sustainable products from diverse feedstocks;

  • Working Group 4 (WG4) – Environmental feasibility;

  • Working Group 5 (WG5) – Dissemination and communication.

The Scientific Director of LSIWC serves as Co-Leader of WG2 – Material Properties, which entails active involvement in coordinating research on material properties and strengthening international collaboration over the coming four years.

The Action was initiated and is coordinated by Associate Professor Torbjörn Pettersson of KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

This summer, the REINVENT General Assembly (GA) will take place in Riga at the Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry, highlighting LSIWC’s role within the international network for bio-based materials research.