Objective
Out of the community created by SPIRE covering industrial and research actors throughout Europe, the EPOS project brings together 6 global process industries from 6 key relevant sectors: steel, cement, minerals, chemicals, bio-based/life science products and engineering. Together they represent 166 bn € in sales with 75% of their production located in Europe. The 6 industries joined forces with 2 excellent science institutes and 4 highly R&I minded SMEs, building the EPOS consortium with Ghent University as coordinator.
With the aim of reinforcing competitiveness of the EU industry, it is the ambition of the EPOS partners to gain cross-sectorial knowledge and investigate cluster opportunities using an innovative Industrial Symbiosis (IS) platform to be developed and validated during the project. The main objective is to enable cross-sectorial IS and provide a wide range of technological and organisational options for making business and operations more efficient, more cost-effective, more competitive and more sustainable across process sectors. The expected impact is clearly in line with the SPIRE roadmap - and sector associations, city councils (in the districts where EPOS is deployed), the SPIRE PPP as well as standardisation bodies are committed to participate in the EPOS transdisciplinary advisory board.
The EPOS project spans 48 months and its structure builds on activities that ensure the project challenge is addressed in an optimal way, including cross-sectorial key performance indicators, sector profiles and cross-sector markets, IS toolbox development, training and validation of the (simple and single) IS management tool in 5 clusters strategically located throughout EU (i.e. France, Poland, Switzerland and UK). Entire work packages are dedicated to dissemination and to define realistic business scenarios for the exploitation of the EPOS tool and the proven, overall cost-reducing IS cluster activities, in view of a wide uptake and a broad EPOS outreach.
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
9000 Gent
Belgium
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Participants (14)
93200 Saint Denis
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02 255 Warszawa
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13117 Lavera
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4002 Basel
HU14 3HU North Ferriby East Riding Of Yorksh
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93300 Aubervilliers
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1015 Lausanne
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1340 Ottignies-louvain-la-neuve
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
91190 Gif Sur Yvette
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
1000 Ljubljana
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
1024 Ecublens Vd
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
2555 Brugg Bei Biel
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1950 Sion
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1340 Ottignies-louvain-la-neuve
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.