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Boosting the uptake of circular business model, product and process innovation

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.

Coordinator

CAMERA DI COMMERCIO INDUSTRIA ARTIGIANATO AGRICOLTURA DI TORINO
Net EU contribution
€ 2 858 778,75
Address
Via Carlo Alberto 16
10123 Torino
Italy

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Region
Nord-Ovest Piemonte Torino
Activity type
Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
Other funding
€ 0,00

Participants (6)

TARTU SCIENCE PARK FOUNDATION TSP
Estonia
Net EU contribution
€ 277 200,00
Address
Riia 185
51014 Tartu

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Region
Eesti Eesti Lõuna-Eesti
Activity type
Other
Other funding
€ 0,00
JIC, ZAJMOVE SDRUZENI PRAVNICKCH OSOB
Czechia
Net EU contribution
€ 243 825,00
Address
Purkynova 649/127
61200 Brno - Medlanky

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Region
Jihovýchod Jihomoravský kraj
Activity type
Other
Other funding
€ 0,00
RISINGSUD
France
Net EU contribution
€ 427 200,00
Address
Immeuble Provence - 81 Bd Dunkerque
13002 Marseille

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Region
Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Bouches-du-Rhône
Activity type
Other
Other funding
€ 0,00
LUBELSKA FUNDACJA ROZWOJU
Poland
Net EU contribution
€ 251 250,00
Address
Ul Rynek Nr 7
20 111 Lublin

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Region
Makroregion wschodni Lubelskie Lubelski
Activity type
Other
Other funding
€ 0,00
TUTECH INNOVATION GMBH
Germany
Net EU contribution
€ 554 886,25
Address
Harburger Schlossstrasse 6-12
21079 Hamburg

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Region
Hamburg Hamburg Hamburg
Activity type
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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

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Region
Extremadura Badajoz
Activity type
Other
Other funding
€ 0,00