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European Circular Economy Innovation Valley: the European “dance floor” for circular regions

Project description

Collaboration for circular economy innovation

The EU-funded ECIV project aims to enhance circular solutions across European industrial value chains and increase collaboration and innovation throughout Europe. To this end, the 19 partners from 9 different European territories will create a truly connected EU ecosystem that will combine the capacities and challenges of participating regions. They will meet in a 'dance floor' where, together, they will develop and deliver new circular solutions for the market with a mission-oriented approach. Besides the creation of regional action plans and other policy instruments, the project will select and fund interregional innovation projects through open calls for partners belonging to the participant territories. It also envisages the exploitation, transfer and replicability of the results.

Objective

"ECIV is a dynamic project aiming to boost circular solutions in different European industrial value chains to increase connectivity inside and between different innovation ecosystems. This transformation is essential for achieving the EU's climate neutrality goals and enhancing industrial autonomy while addressing green transformation
ECIV aims to create a lively ""dance floor"" where innovation stakeholders can connect to propose solutions to different challenges of common interest for the regions to achieve circularity in their main industrial value chains. It connects regions in Europe that share interest in CE development, emphasizing collaboration among stakeholders like public bodies, industries, RTOs, etc. The consortium is composed of nine territories from nine countries joining 17 regions. It has been selected based on their innovation capacity, keen interest in the circular economy, and potential synergies within their regional industrial value chains
Objectives: To make significant progress in transitioning participating regions and Europe toward a circular economy
To generate sustainable growth and development in the participating regions and Europe by capitalising on the economic opportunities presented in the transition to circular economy.
Methodology:1)Analysis of the regional contexts and challenges, including policy aspects, strategic planning, and actors in the circular economy. 2)Mission-Oriented Plans: defining specific missions and sub-missions to address the circular economy's transformational goals 3)Connecting the Ecosystems (the Dance Floor): focusing on facilitating connections and collaboration among stakeholders from different regions. It creates a dialogue space, challenges space, and development space to mobilize, engage, and connect regional actors, to solve specific challenges.4)Solving the Challenges by implementing deep tech projects to the proposed challenges selected in a cascade funding 5)Transferring and replication"

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Funding Scheme

HORIZON-COFUND - HORIZON Programme Cofund Actions

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-EIE-2023-CONNECT-03

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Coordinator

COMUNIDAD FORAL DE NAVARRA - GOBIERNO DE NAVARRA
Net EU contribution
€ 3 633 750,00
Address
AVENIDA CARLOS III 2
31002 Pamplona
Spain
Region
Noreste Comunidad Foral de Navarra Navarra
Activity type
Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
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Total cost
€ 7 268 125,00

Participants (18)