Project description
Circular economy is the future – and digital health devices will play a part
It’s out of the question for the EU economy to not become circular. Presented in March 2020, the European Commission's new Circular Economy Action Plan targets how products are designed, promotes circular economy processes, encourages sustainable consumption and aims to ensure that waste is prevented. At the same time, in March 2020 pollution due to single-use face masks was about to cause a huge environmental damage. The EU-funded DICE project comes at the perfect moment to achieve the action plan’s goals. Researchers want to develop and demonstrate new solutions for digital health devices. These tools will be tested in five healthcare ecosystems reflecting the geographical spread within Europe through community-engaged pilots in Belgium, Germany, Norway, Slovenia and Spain.
Objective
DICE aims to develop and demonstrate novel, circular and environmentally sound solutions to design, collect, directly reuse, refurbish, remanufacture and recycle digital health devices (ePaper label, smart wearable sensor, smart pill box, endo-cutter), which will contribute to enabling a circular transition. Solutions will be implemented, tested and demonstrated in five healthcare ecosystems reflecting the geographical spread within Europe through community-engaged pilots in Norway, Belgium, Slovenia, Spain and Germany. DICE will contribute to mitigating the globally expanding health waste problem covering three material streams -electronics, plastics, metal- and alleviate shortage of critical and valuable raw materials, while protecting the health and safety of those involved in realising the circular economy. Exploitation of key outputs will be ensured by all partners throughout and after the project and will be further extended to adjacent sectors through existing networks and platforms within which the partners are represented.
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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation ActionsCoordinator
2340 Beerse
Belgium
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Participants (21)
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4837 DS Breda
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3821 AB Amersfoort
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2300AG Leiden
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9000 Gent
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1030 Bruxelles / Brussel
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28036 MADRID
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1030 SCHAERBEEK
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2440 Geel
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2628 CN Delft
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5617 BA Eindhoven
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0467 Oslo
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44801 Bochum
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5656 AG Eindhoven
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47016 Valladolid
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2000 Maribor
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2000 Frederiksberg
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1231 Ljubljana
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40 844 Katowice
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5652 CV Eindhoven
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2300 Kobenhavn
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28036 MADRID
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Partners (1)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
9014 St.Gallen
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