VITO, one of Europe’s leading research centres with 1,300 employees, turns scientific insights into groundbreaking technological innovations, AI solutions, and policy advice. We do so with a single objective: to help the world thrive for at least 1,000 more years. As a science-to-technology partner, we support companies, governments, and society in their sustainability transition. With our multidisciplinary approach and unique lab, scale-up, and testing infrastructure, we create practical technological innovations. We accelerate progress towards a regenerative economy that reinforces planetary boundaries (prioritising electrification and circularity), smart climate solutions for resilient and secure ecosystems, and a healthy living environment harmonising humans, industry, agriculture, and nature. 

In the Business Unit Materials & Chemistry, strategic research is mainly focused around resource circularity, bio-economy and process transformation for sustainable chemistry. In this framework, we have over 25 years of practical experience in the field of membrane science and technology covering a wide variety of aqueous as well as organic solvent-based membrane processes, down-stream, hybrid or in-process.