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Sustainable Circular Economy Transition: From Industrial Symbiosis to Hubs for Circularity

Description du projet

Transformer les zones industrielles en pôles durables et résilients de circularité

Les régions fortement industrialisées peinent à adopter la symbiose industrielle à grande échelle, ce qui entrave les progrès du développement régional durable en dépit des priorités de l’UE. Dans cette optique, le projet IS2H4C, financé par l’UE, propose des solutions innovantes par le biais de son initiative Hubs for Circularity (H4C), stratégiquement située dans des zones industrielles en Allemagne, aux Pays-Bas, en Espagne et en Turquie. IS2H4C entend transformer ces zones en écosystèmes dynamiques et circulaires, en intégrant des technologies durables de pointe et en encourageant la collaboration entre les parties prenantes sociétales, gouvernementales et commerciales. Le projet s’appuie également sur une version numérique de H4C pour le partage des ressources et des informations afin de réduire la consommation d’énergie, les déchets et les émissions de carbone d’au moins 10 %, 20 % et 30 % respectivement.

Objectif

Existing heavily industrialized areas are currently incapable of adopting large-scale industrial symbioses in terms of shared technology/infrastructure use, waste integration, energy and material utilization, as well as expanding through surrounding ecosystems in an inclusive manner for the society despite many of the EU's key strategic priorities in sustainable regional development. Within this context, IS2H4C proposes an ambitious and efficient innovation and action workplan to develop several solutions for the development of Hubs for Circularity (H4C) in diverse industrial areas of process industry surrounded by rural and/or urban settings in the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and Turkey. The workplan is shaped by development and deployment of most innovative sustainable technologies and infrastructure integration in four demo hubs and is supported by ground-breaking research on societal, governmental, and business innovation for H4C. IS2H4C scales up industrial areas to H4C via implementing systemic change and integrating the surrounding ecosystems to industrial areas. The project implements a digital collaboration platform to manage the resource, infrastructure and information-sharing within H4C via embedding of decision-support modules in the platform. IS2H4C has the ambition of reducing the energy use, waste emissions, and carbon emissions by at least 10%, 20%, and 30% respectively. 
IS2H4C will contribute to pave the path towards the development of H4C based on the circularity and resilience requirements of existing and future industrial zones and their surrounding ecosystems by prioritizing resource efficiency, maximizing use of renewable energy, prevention of waste, and promoting industrial/urban/rural symbiosis via reuse and recycling of unavoidable solid, liquid, and gas waste streams. All in all, IS2H4C’s biggest ambition is to promote H4C as Europe’s future sustainable regional development models.

Coordinateur

UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 3 391 935,00
Adresse
DRIENERLOLAAN 5
7522 NB Enschede
Pays-Bas

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Région
Oost-Nederland Overijssel Twente
Type d’activité
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Liens
Coût total
€ 3 391 935,00

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