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Shaping symbiosis in bio-based industrial ecosystems based on circular by-design supply chains

Project description

Fostering circular bio-based business models

The EU-funded SYMBIO project aims to unlock local bioeconomies by creating and promoting circular bio-based business models. It will equip European regional communities with innovative tools and methodologies to develop business models based on circularity-by-design and industrial symbiosis. To do so, it will combine big data and AI, creating a series of sustainable and profitable symbiotic models that can be replicated across Europe. These models seek to boost the market for bio-based products and include an integrated system to monitor symbiosis and its social, economic and environmental impacts. Lastly, SYMBIO will demonstrate and validate its methodology in pilot regions across the EU to ensure its adaptability to different local contexts.

Objective

The SYMBIO project provides European regional communities with tools and methodological approaches to building bio-based business models based on circularity by-design and industrial symbiosis.
Thanks to tools for integrating big data and artificial intelligence, SYMBIO shapes 10 symbiotic business models with high-profitability sustainability replicable at the EU level to increase bio-based products on the market and provides a system to modelling, measure and monitor symbiosis and its social, economic and environmental impacts. SYMBIO methodology will be designed, tested and validated in 12 EU pilot regions (Lombardy, Piedmont, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Emilia-Romagna, Carinthia, Slovenia, Croatia, Andalusia, Bruxelles Capital, Wallonia, Flanders) that have been selected based on the estimation of their bio-based resources defined by raw material availability, socio-economic indicators, intangible networks and infrastructures and potential for development of CBE close-to-market supply chains and current trends. Involving all supply chain actors in a quadruplex approach will help unlock and stimulate local development potential by promoting sustainable, innovative, tangible and participatory pathways to the green transition through an inclusive bottom-up CBE nexus.

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Funding Scheme

HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL6-2023-CIRCBIO-01

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Coordinator

LOMBARDY GREEN CHEMISTRY ASSOCIATION
Net EU contribution
€ 268 200,00
Address
PIAZZA DELLA TRIVULZIANA 4/A
20126 Milano
Italy
Region
Nord-Ovest Lombardia Milano
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