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A circular economy approach for lifecycles of products and services

Descrizione del progetto

Garantire la sostenibilità attraverso soluzioni di economia circolare

La transizione verso un futuro sostenibile è un obiettivo possibile: sostenendo i principi dell’economia circolare, si può infatti spianare la strada per un mondo in cui sostenibilità e innovazione vanno di pari passo. In questo contesto, il progetto CIRC4Life, finanziato dall’UE, si propone di creare a partire dalle basi un ecosistema sostenibile che comprenda ogni fase della catena del valore e della filiera di approvvigionamento. Per raggiungere i propri obiettivi, CIRC4Life ha identificato tre modelli di business fondamentali: la co-creazione di prodotti/servizi, volta a colmare il divario tra utenti finali e produttori; il modello di consumo sostenibile e, infine, il riciclaggio e il riutilizzo collaborativo dei prodotti al termine della loro vita utile. L’ambito del progetto si estende al settore dei prodotti elettrici ed elettronici, nonché a quello agricolo e all’industria agroalimentare.

Obiettivo

This project aims to develop and implement a circular economy approach for sustainable products and services through their value and supply chains. Three new circular economy business models will be developed including (i) co-creation of products and services, (ii) sustainable consumption, and (iii) collaborative recycling and reuse.

The Co-creation of Products/Services model will bring end-users closer to the design and manufacturing phases by identifying consumer preferences via Big-data online mining product reviews and evaluating product specifications and prototypes via Living Lab to customise the end-user requirements. Benefited from the co-creation features, sets of sustainable production methods will be implemented and new products/services will be created.

The Sustainable Consumption model will develop a method to calculate the eco-points of products based on the outcome of FP7 myEcoCost project, assess product environment footprints (PEF), provide a traceability solution to monitor product’s sustainability along the value chain, and support end-users and stakeholders to actively implement the circular economy via awareness raising and knowledge sharing activities.

The Collaborative Recycling/Reuse model will develop a system for stakeholders to interact with each other to facilitate the use/reuse of end-of-life products and reduce waste, and implement the eco-credits awarding scheme to encourage people to recycle/reuse.

This project will be demonstrated at a large scale in electrical and electronic products and farming/agri-foods sectors, provide an effective means to communicate with wide communities to disseminate the project outcome, and involve a large number of stakeholders along value and supply chains throughout the project lifetime, including end-users, producers, researchers and civil society.

An ICT platform will be developed to support the development, implementation, demonstration, communication and dissemination.

Invito a presentare proposte

H2020-IND-CE-2016-17

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Bando secondario

H2020-CIRC-2017TwoStage

Meccanismo di finanziamento

IA - Innovation action

Coordinatore

THE NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 1 000 951,25
Indirizzo
50 SHAKESPEARE STREET
NG1 4FQ Nottingham
Regno Unito

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Regione
East Midlands (England) Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Nottingham
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 1 000 951,25

Partecipanti (16)