Swap.com On-line department store for Massive Amount of Pre-owned Items

Projektinformationen

SOMAPI

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 673581

DOI 10.3030/673581

Projekt abgeschlossen

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 30 Juni 2015

Startdatum 1 Juli 2015

Enddatum 30 September 2017

Finanziert unter

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Climate action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials

Gesamtkosten € 1 836 931,25

EU-Beitrag € 1 285 851,88

Koordiniert durch

NETCYCLER OY
Finland

Ziel

A part of developing more sustainable lifestyles is to extend the life time of items and foster re-use of the items. The first preference would be to acquire a pre-owned item and only if that is not feasible, purchasing a newly manufactured item produced in a sustainable way.

Currently, the challenge in acquiring pre-owned items through peer-to-peer internet sites is that people need to see effort to photograph and list their items and then if someone buys their item, they need to pack and ship the items.

Swap.com provides an on-line consignment department store for pre-owned items in a cost-efficient and easy-to-use way. Items that are no longer needed are sent to Swap.com's fulfillment center where they are sorted, photographed, packed and stored. Swap.com solves customer issues regarding the selling effort by so that customer can pack the items into a box and send the items to Swap.com's fulfillment center.

This project targets to develop an industrial scale capability for selling and trading relatively inexpensive pre-owned (i.e. second-hand) items on-line in massive scale. This means that items with values as low as 2 EUR can be processed so that customers selling their items through Swap.com can get their share and Swap.com can make profitable business.

The approach is to scale-up the fulfillment center operations to a more efficient multi-processing flow where key parts are optimized and automatized further. The project also develops recommendations and search mechanisms in the customer front side (Swap.com service) so that customers find specifically what they are looking for.

Swap.com’s concept will encourage re-use of items instead of dumping them into landfills, and will therefore help to enable the transition towards a circular economy. Swap.com’s goal is to be the world’s leading on-line department store for pre-owned items.

Wissenschaftliches Gebiet

CORDIS klassifiziert Projekte mit EuroSciVoc, einer mehrsprachigen Taxonomie der Wissenschaftsbereiche, durch einen halbautomatischen Prozess, der auf Verfahren der Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache beruht.

• engineering and technology › materials engineering › colors
• social sciences › economics and business › business and management › commerce › e-commerce
• engineering and technology › materials engineering › textiles
• social sciences › economics and business › economics › sustainable economy
• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › waste management › waste treatment processes

Programm/Programme

• H2020-EU.3.5. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Climate action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials Main Programme
• H2020-EU.2.3.1. - Mainstreaming SME support, especially through a dedicated instrument

Thema/Themen

• SC5-20-2014 - Boosting the potential of small businesses for eco-innovation and a sustainable supply of raw materials

Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung

H2020-SMEInst-2014-2015

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Unterauftrag

H2020-SMEINST-2-2014

Finanzierungsplan

SME-2 - SME instrument phase 2

Koordinator

NETCYCLER OY

• Netto-EU-Beitrag: € 1 285 851,88
• Adresse: RUOHOLAHDENKATU 10 ; 00180 HELSINKI ; Finnland
• KMU Die Organisation definierte sich zum Zeitpunkt der Unterzeichnung der Finanzhilfevereinbarung selbst als KMU (Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen). Ja:
  Region
  Manner-Suomi › Helsinki-Uusimaa › Helsinki-Uusimaa
• Region: Manner-Suomi › Helsinki-Uusimaa › Helsinki-Uusimaa
• Aktivitätstyp: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Gesamtkosten: € 1 836 931,25