The SustainablePackPT project was born from the ambition to take the excellence of Portuguese packaging beyond borders.

This meeting brings together all those who want to transform the sector. Come meet partners, share ideas, and prepare your company’s international leap.

Location: NERLEI Building, Leiria
Date: September 11, 2025
Time: From 2:15 PM

This workshop aims to provide a macroeconomic analysis of Western Europe as a whole, and the Netherlands and Belgium specifically. It will demonstrate how economic factors, public policies, and consumer behavior influence how these markets operate. This session is geared towards companies that want to understand these markets and prepare entry strategies.

Location: Online
Date: 5 May 2026
Time: 10am to 12pm

This workshop will present a clear overview of packaging regulation, exploring the main regulatory axes — from producer responsibility and design for recyclability to environmental claims and recycled content targets — and comparing the approaches adopted in the European Union and North America.

Location: Edifício AEB, Braga
Date: 18 March 2026
Time: 9:30 AM
Hybrid Regime

This workshop will present a clear overview of packaging regulation, exploring the main regulatory axes — from producer responsibility and design for recyclability to environmental claims and recycled content targets — and comparing the approaches adopted in the European Union and North America.

Location: Edifício NERLEI, Leiria
Date: 19 March 2026
Time: 9:30 AM
Hybrid Regime

This workshop aims to provide a macroeconomic analysis of the North American region as a whole, and the US and Canada specifically. It will demonstrate how economic factors, public policies, and consumer behavior influence how these markets operate. This session is geared towards companies that want to understand these markets and prepare entry strategies.

Location: Online
Date: April 22 2026
Time: 10am to 12pm

Packaging is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by growing environmental concerns, evolving consumer expectations and the need to find more efficient and circular solutions. In this context, ecodesign plays a strategic role by integrating sustainability from the packaging design stage, combining innovation, functionality, efficiency and environmental impact.

As part of the SustainablePackPT project, NERLEI CCI is promoting a workshop that will explore the key trends redefining the future of packaging on a global scale, looking at how design can help reduce resource consumption, extend the life cycle of materials and create solutions that are more closely aligned with the principles of the circular economy.

An opportunity to understand how the packaging sector is evolving, which approaches are gaining momentum in international markets, and how companies can turn sustainability challenges into opportunities for innovation and differentiation.

Location: Ed. NERLEI
Date: 8 October 2026
Time: 14:00–17:30

The session will present the European ecodesign framework and its impact on packaging, particularly in terms of market access, Extended Producer Responsibility, the Digital Product Passport and carbon footprint transparency.
It will also analyse consumer behaviour, including the gap between sustainable purchasing intentions and actual purchasing decisions, the factors that hinder them (price, convenience and food safety), consumer segments, and differences between the project’s key markets.
Finally, it will outline the main ecodesign trends, with real-world examples of companies implementing them and the solutions they have adopted.

Workshop Online
Location: Edifício AEB, Braga
Date: 18 November 2026
Time: 10:00–12:00
Session led by: Market Access
Speaker: Guilherme Sá