SO 2.6 : Promoting the transition to a circular and resource efficient economy

SO 2.6 : Promoting the transition to a circular and resource efficient economy

Territorial challenges and opportunities

The North-West Europe (NWE) region is considered relatively advanced in terms of resource efficiency, with regions having a relatively low material consumption per capita despite their high economic performance. However, improvements are needed to further transition to a more circular and resource efficient economy across the NWE Programme area. Disparities across the different territories and stakeholders in NWE regions need to be addressed. The transition from a linear to a circular economy requires joint efforts by stakeholders across all sectors with a variety of approaches.

Objectives


Within this Specific Objective, the Programme aims to support projects that:
• Contribute to a more effective and balanced transition towards a circular economy in the NWE region.
• Address process, product, component, and material efficiency in value chains following the waste hierarchy principle of refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, and via business models for more resource efficiency and better waste management.
• Improve the awareness and capacity levels of stakeholders to enable the transition to a circular and resource efficient economy.

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CASCADE

Circular Conversion Cascades to Transform Residual Biomass to Carbon Products

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ReNu2Cycle

REcycling of NUtrients to close the fertiliser CYCLE

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Hemp4Circularity

Hemp as a driver of circularity in the textile industry: from field to recycled fibre

Hemp4Circularity is an Interreg NWE project that aims to implement an innovative, local and biobased ecological fibre - the long fibre hemp - in the textile value chain of North-West Europe, from growers to weavers/knitters, from field to fashion. Th...

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CIRCULAR RENO

Developing biobased & recycled / reused material solutions for retrofit

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E6

Ecosystems for Extended-lifetime of End-of-Use Electrical and Electronic Equipment

Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment is one of the fastest growing waste streams globally. Also, in North-West Europe. Electrical and electronic goods are easily replaced for low prices, meaning life cycles become shorter in order to decrea...

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CUF training

Circular Urban Farms training

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ECHT

Enable Digital Product Passports with Chemicals Traceability for a Circular Economy

The Green Deal transition towards a climate-neutral, resource-preserving and non-toxic Circular Economy (CE) creates new challenges for businesses. The EU Textiles Strategy aims to tackle the high waste generation vs. low recycling rates and negative...

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ECOPRO

Eco friendly COlourants for Polymer pROducts

This project addresses the challenge of transitioning to a place-based, resource efficient, circular economy through enabling the replacement of synthetic colourants with bio-based, degradable colourants. Current synthetic colourants in polymer/plast...

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ASSET

A Spatial Strategy for the Eurodelta, boosting a circular builT environment

ASSET: A Spatial Strategy for the Eurodelta, boosting a circular builT environment...

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AlgaeVALOR

Valorisation of Seaweed for Non-Food Applications

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PREUSE

Public Responses to Enable the Use of Salvaged building Elements

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SO 2.6 aims to promote a more effective transition towards circular economy by giving access to its benefits to all.
The territorial analysis shows that the NWE area is rather advanced when it comes to adopting approaches for a resource-efficient circular economy. Most regions of the NWE cooperation area have a relatively low material consumption per capita despite their high economic performance. However, renewed efforts are constantly needed to reach higher targets in terms of waste management. Activities to transition to a more circular economy need further improvement, as the benefits of the transition are not evenly distributed across the different territories, industrial sectors and societal groups.
This priority contributes to the EU Circular Economy Action Plan ‘For a cleaner and more competitive Europe’ (2020) as well as to multiple UN SDGs, including SDGs 8 on economic growth, 11 on sustainable cities, 12 on responsible consumption and production, 13 on climate change, 14 on oceans, and 15 on life on land.
Grants are the selected form of support for this SO. The size of planned operations, and the type of cooperation of target groups beyond national borders, allow for very limited use of support other than grants. In addition, planned operations will not generate significant revenue.