Project description
Helping to build tomorrow’s circular cities
About a third of all waste that ends up in landfills is organic and could have been decomposed. The valorisation of waste can help reverse this trend. The EU-funded HOOP project will support selected European cities to implement the most appropriate technologies for recycling biowaste. The overall goal is to help unlock bio-based investments and deploy local bio-economies in Europe. To build the technical, economic, financial and legal expertise needed to develop concrete investments to valorise the organic fraction of municipal solid waste or the urban wastewater sludge, the project will set to work in eight lighthouse cities and city clusters. The list includes cities in Germany, Greece, Spain, Finland, Italy and Portugal. HOOP will also work towards changing citizens’ behaviour and acceptance regarding bio-based products.
Objective
The HOOP Project will help to unlock bio-based investments and deploy local bio economies in Europe through a systemic and cross-cutting approach. It will offer Project Development Assistance (PDA) to a group of 8 lighthouse cities and city clusters - to build the technical, economic, financial and legal expertise needed to develop concrete investments to valorise OFMSW (Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste) or UWWS (Urban Wastewater Sludge) with the aim of obtaining safe and sustainable bio-based products. Each PDA will contain detailed implementation assistance and a defined Circular Business Model tailored to each participating lighthouse city, as well as financing mechanisms to be used for mobilising investment. Moreover, HOOP will launch stakeholder engagement and citizen science initiatives to allow for the co-design of an improved collection of OFMSW for its later optimum valorisation. It will promote behavioural change and acceptability of biowaste-based products, as well as food waste prevention.
The HOOP Project will also feature the HOOP Urban Circular Bioeconomy Hub (UCBH), an online platform that will provide opportunities to replicate the PDAs of the lighthouse cities in other follower cities (currently composed by 26 committed cities from all around Europe) – under the launch of the Network of Follower European Cities. HOOP continues the work of the projects VALUEWASTE, Scalibur and WaystUP!, funded under topic CE-SFS-25-2018 and coordinated by the three technical leaders of HOOP. The HOOP Consortium covers the whole value chain, from biowaste recovery to valorisation and characterization of the final products and unites complementary stakeholders with the deep multi-disciplinary knowledge crucial to PDA creation and the achievement of project objectives. It includes partners from 10 EU member countries, 5 municipalities and 3 clusters of cities.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processes
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsbioeconomy
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society
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46980 Paterna
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46003 Valencia
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54655 Thessaloniki
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19000 Praha
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15706 Santiago De Compostela
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29590 MALAGA
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6707 AA Wageningen
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1210 BRUXELLES
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1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
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08015 Barcelona
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3700 019 Sao Joao Da Madeira
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42107 Wuppertal
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3880-148 OVAR
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3521 UTRECHT
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08013 Barcelona
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70200 KUOPIO
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5015 BERGEN
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5015 BERGEN
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5258 BLOMSTERDALEN
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1300 AE Almere
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00186 Roma
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4435 996 Baguim Do Monte Gondomar
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50100 Kozani
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50100 Kozani
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30004 Murcia
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48143 Munster
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5015 BERGEN
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5258 BLOMSTERDALEN
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54655 Thessaloniki
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