Private non-profit association. Located on the Azurém Campus of the University of Minho, in Guimarães.
Facilities with 2000 m² of laboratory space. CVR members are mostly from the industry area.
CVR was recognized as a Public Utility Entity and Technological Interface Center in 2017.
CVR operates in 4 areas: Analytical Services, Consulting, Research and Technological Development and Organization of Scientific Events.
CVR was recognized as a Technology and Innovation Centre in 2022.
Support industry and municipalities in the development of innovative solutions for waste management, respecting the stages of the process in an economically and environmentally way.
To be the interface of choice in the development of innovative options for scientific and technological analysis, implementing integrated waste management solutions, according to the principles of circular economy.
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Associates
Placeholder copy. The general assembly gathers every associate of the centre and meets twice a year to approve the accounts, the plan of activities and the budget carried into the following exercise.
Its board is elected for a three-year term and chairs both the ordinary sessions and any extraordinary session called by a fifth of the members.
Placeholder copy. The board runs the centre day to day, answers to the assembly for the plan it was given, and holds the technical direction of the laboratories and the research lines that sit under them.
Placeholder copy. The supervisory board reviews the accounts before they reach the assembly and reports on the regularity of the centre's bookkeeping, its funding and its commitments.
Placeholder copy. The centre was founded by a group of municipalities, university departments and industrial companies who put up the first capital and set the terms the statutes still carry.
Placeholder copy. Eighty-three organisations hold an effective membership: companies working in waste and energy, public bodies with a stake in the sector, and research units of the University of Minho.
Membership carries a vote in the assembly, a reduced tariff across the laboratories, and first sight of the projects the centre opens to partners.