Project description DEENESFRITPL Support for SME sustainable growth The EU-funded Up2Circ project strives to accelerate and scale the transition of European SMEs to a circular economy by offering attractive and efficient support measures. With the Up2Circ-Accelerator, the project will accompany SMEs from exploration of opportunities to directly funded concrete implementation projects. By lifting barriers with a customised, client-centric advisory approach, it will give access to specific expertise and skills that SMEs need to develop a concrete action plan on how to transition. Together with EU stakeholders, the project aims to explore and demonstrate how we can increase efficiency of EU SME support in order to make circular economy the new normal. The project will make its methodology and materials available to SME innovation advisors. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective Up2Circ will demonstrate a replicable pathway to motivate and effectively support SMEs to innovate and transform towards sustainable growth and adresses the need of EU innovation support ecosystems to better join forces and make best use of synergies in order to enable a quick and comprehensive transition of Europe's SMEs towards a circular economy on a large scale. With the Up2Circ-Accelerator the project accompanies SMEs from exploration of opportunities to concrete implementation projects concerning the uptake of circular business model, product and process innovation, focussing on achievable innovation measures with clear mid-term benefits for the SMEs. Up2Circ is dismantling barriers with a customized, client-centric advisory approach and gives access to specific expertise and skills that SMEs need to develop a concrete action plan on how to transition. Learning modules of Up2Circ-Academy will connect sustainable innovation, the uptake of advanced technologies and social innovation aspects under the holistic concept of a circular economy and will be compiled based on existing results and in close cooperation with EU networks and initiatives such as ATI, EDIH, ECCP, EIT and OITB. Up2Circ methodology and materials will be made available to SME innovation advisors and trainings will be offered targeting e.g. EEN sustainability advisors to upscale project results. Further, to increase efficiency of EU innovation support ecosystems, four leveraging effects will be demonstrated and exploited: Make use of existing results, reach out more efficiently to SMEs, make use of complementary strengths, establish closer connections. Fields of science social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness modelsnatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystemssocial scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy Programme(s) HORIZON.2.4 - Digital, Industry and Space Main Programme Topic(s) HORIZON-CL4-2022-RESILIENCE-01-26 - 'Innovate to transform' support for SME's sustainability transition (CSA) Call for proposal HORIZON-CL4-2022-RESILIENCE-01 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CSA - Coordination and support action Coordinator CAMERA DI COMMERCIO INDUSTRIA ARTIGIANATO AGRICOLTURA DI TORINO Net EU contribution € 2 858 778,75 Address Via carlo alberto 16 10123 Torino Italy See on map Region Nord-Ovest Piemonte Torino Activity type Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all TARTU SCIENCE PARK FOUNDATION TSP Estonia Net EU contribution € 277 200,00 Address Riia 185 51014 Tartu See on map Region Eesti Eesti Lõuna-Eesti Activity type Other Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 JIC, ZAJMOVE SDRUZENI PRAVNICKCH OSOB Czechia Net EU contribution € 243 825,00 Address Purkynova 649/127 61200 Brno - medlanky See on map Region Česko Jihovýchod Jihomoravský kraj Activity type Other Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 RISINGSUD France Net EU contribution € 427 200,00 Address Immeuble provence - 81 bd dunkerque 13002 Marseille See on map Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Bouches-du-Rhône Activity type Other Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 LUBELSKA FUNDACJA ROZWOJU Poland Net EU contribution € 251 250,00 Address Ul rynek nr 7 20 111 Lublin See on map Region Makroregion wschodni Lubelskie Lubelski Activity type Other Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 TUTECH INNOVATION GMBH Germany Net EU contribution € 554 886,25 Address Harburger schlossstrasse 6-12 21079 Hamburg See on map Region Hamburg Hamburg Hamburg Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 FUNDACION FUNDECYT - PARQUE CIENTIFICO Y TECNOLOGICO DE EXTREMADURA Spain Net EU contribution € 386 637,50 Address Avenida de elvas campus universitario edificio parque cientifico tecnologico 06071 Badajoz See on map Region Centro (ES) Extremadura Badajoz Activity type Other Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00
