Project description
Improving the circularity of the automotive and mass electronics sectors
Sustainable manufacturing is one of the most important objectives in the EU agenda, requiring industries to rethink and redesign entire supply chain practices. The electronics industry is not an exception. Electronic components are used in numerous markets, such as the automotive and mass electronics sectors. However, electronic components are mainly imported from outside the EU. Reducing Europe’s dependency on extra-EU supplies of strategic products is a top priority. With this in mind, the EU-funded CIRC-UITS project will demonstrate the improvement to the circularity of the automotive and mass electronics sectors by reuse of semiconductors from different sources. It will also support the remanufacturing of semiconductors into new (high added value) components and products in these sectors.
Objective
Several products embed different types of electronic components, and they are even more fundamental in some of the European strategic markets (e.g. automotive). However, reference producers come from extra-EU countries in the far-east side of the world (e.g. China and Taiwan). Trying to cope with all these challenges and the current semiconductors crisis, the European Commission (EC) published (and in some cases is still working on) specific EU strategies/directives for automotive, e-waste (e.g. Digital Product Passport) and, specifically, semiconductors (e.g. European Chips Act). However, trying to make these sectors more sustainable, circular and resilient, it is mandatory to boost both EoL strategies (e.g. sorting, reuse, remanufacturing and recycling) and intra-EU production through innovations and investments. The current international scenario represents a good chance to decouple the European economy from both natural resource depletion (e.g. Critical Raw Materials - CRMs) and dependency from extra-EU supplies of strategic products. In order to better prove what the benefits are of a joined circular/resilient use of secondary resources, the automotive and mass electronics sectors have been identified as the reference contexts for establishing a set of innovative solutions. To this aim, the CIRC-UITS project will focus on demonstrate the improvement to the circularity of automotive and mass electronics sectors by reuse of semiconductors from different sources, as well as support the reuse & remanufacturing of semiconductors into new (high added-value) components and products in these sectors.
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20133 Milano
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Participants (20)
26121 Oldenburg
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1130 Wien
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48008 Bilbao
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2595 DA Den Haag
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20093 Cologno Monzese
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10043 Orbassano
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70839 Gerlingen-Schillerhoehe
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40764 Langenfeld
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31036 Toulouse
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2498 AS 's-Gravenhage (Den Haag)
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20156 Milano
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38126 Braunschweig
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25081 Bedizzole (Bs)
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5656AE Eindhoven
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20161 MILAN
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20161 MILANO
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10787 Berlin
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20133 Milano Mi
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7625 Pecs
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20093 Cologno Monzese
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
6928 Manno
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