In order to prove the operational framework defined in WP2 during the first 18 months of the project, the consortium partners have deployed this methodology in WP4 in each of the participating regions in order to start the deployment of energy symbiosis projects. This methodology has been publicly disseminated through the Deliverable 4.3 Handbook of Energy Symbiosis Implementation, which is downloadable via the project website.
This handbook enables the decoupling of economic growth from non-renewable resource exploitation, by dealing with the usage of wasted energetic resources of an industry or industrial process as a substitute to the traditionally used by another industrial process.
To establish the necessary methodology and services, this has been addressed principally through activities carried out in WP3, which involved the development of the INCUBIS digital cloud platform, that enables the provision of energy symbiosis support services under the “Virtual Incubator” delivery model in each of the 5 region participants. The platform is fully operational and publicly accessible to the core target audiences of: Energy symbiosis facilitators; Industrial Park managers; Industrial companies/factories that manage thermal waste; Public agents that promote industrial symbiosis programs, as well as Investors, via www.incubis.org
WP5 has focussed on the delivery of public information material that allows any potential stakeholder to get familiarised within the main needs and challenges that should be considered nowadays for energy symbiosis projects, at a policy level or even at a training level. A public training module has been deployed and is accessible through the project website and digital cloud platform, moreover, policy recommendation documents have been published in the Documents section of the project website in order to disseminate all the insights from the current stakeholders and relevant partner experts in energy symbiosis projects.
The regional leaders have redefined and selected the energy symbiosis projects to be supported based on success and impact criteria and more accurate KPIs.
Thanks to this effort, 15 industrial parks committed to receive services from the regional leaders and to engage within the project framework to activate energy symbiosis projects.
Finally, actions to maximize the impacts of the project through effective communication and dissemination have been performed principally through activities carried out in WP6, which have intensified in this latter part of the project to promote and raise awareness about the project brand, its results, to engage stakeholders, and to strengthen the projects’ communication channels (website, social media channels). These efforts have been supported with a variety of communication and dissemination materials (Video, Poster, Brochure/Leaflet, One-pager for 5 regions, Documents which have been edited and branded for public dissemination). All the tools and materials, are available from the project website serving as a very useful knowledge repository of the knowledge generated, the overall success stories and lessons learned throughout the project.
