Description du projet
Connecter les parties prenantes et partager les connaissances pour dynamiser les Hubs4Circularity
Les Hubs4Circularity (H4C) sont des écosystèmes socio-techniques pour la symbiose industrielle (urbaine) à grande échelle et l’économie circulaire, fermant les boucles de l’énergie, des ressources et des données à l’échelle régionale. Ils constituent un élément important dans la réalisation des objectifs de neutralité climatique à l’horizon 2050. La mission principale du projet H4C Europe, financé par l’UE, consiste à mettre en place une communauté de pratique pour connecter les initiatives H4C ainsi que les acteurs de l’industrie, des régions, des villes et des organismes de recherche et développement. Les parties intéressées se connectent par le biais d’une plateforme de connaissances établie ou lors d’ateliers et d’événements afin de partager leurs connaissances, leurs expériences, leurs outils et leur matériel. Globalement, le projet facilitera la création, l’extension et la reproduction des écosystèmes H4C. Il permettra en outre de progresser plus rapidement vers une symbiose industrielle (urbaine) et des chaînes de valeur circulaires.
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H4C Europe project will create a European Community of Practice (ECoP). It will provide a community, knowledge platform, and exchange structures that will help the existing and future hubs in creation, management, and growth, by overcoming barriers to IS/I-US/C. The ECoP is set up to be self-sustaining. 10 existing Hubs have committed to join as ECoP Founding Members. The ECoP will preserve the findings of IS/I-US/C research and innovation projects, especially those funded by the EC and member states. It will organize a continuous exchange of ideas and best practices and facilitate in-depth exchanges between experts to identify bottlenecks, evaluate the outcomes of related projects, and propose innovative approaches to overcome bottlenecks. Possible topics include the financing and operation of IS infrastructures, matching demand and supply in IS and I-US, sharing benefits, cross-border exchange of materials, water, and waste-water systems, regulatory issues in the use of secondary raw materials, the tension between re-use and use of waste as feedstock, to name a few. Digitalization is a transversal enabling aspect of IS/I-US/C and the usage of digital tools will be an important aspect of each expert group. In line with the call and to achieve its vision, the CSA will work along four axes: 1) Sustainable Community building and establishment of an IT knowledge platform as a tool, 2) Consolidation and creation of available knowledge by analysis of the state of the art, in-depth discussions of leading experts, and field trials of business models and financial strategies a.o. for large-scale demonstrators, 3) Development of a KPI toolkit for the assessment of the maturity of IS/I-US/C regional initiatives towards H4C and independent evaluation of H4Cs as candidates for lighthouse projects, as well as the elaboration of policy recommendations, 4) Promotion of the H4C concept, societal engagement, and policy recommendations.
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