The transition towards a Circular Economy: The role of ...€¦ · Circular Economy: The role of...
16
The transition towards a Circular Economy: The role of Innovation and Horizon 2020 26 March 2018, Geneva Vincenzo GENTE Senior Project Adviser Unit B2 H2020 Environment and Resources Eco-innovation Sector [email protected]
Transcript of The transition towards a Circular Economy: The role of ...€¦ · Circular Economy: The role of...
The transition towards a Circular Economy:
The role of Innovation and Horizon 2020
26 March 2018, Geneva
Vincenzo GENTE
Senior Project Adviser Unit B2 H2020 Environment and Resources
Eco-innovation Sector
4 Key areas of action
5 Priority sectors
CIRCULAR ECONOMY ACTION PLAN
https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/sites/hori
zon2020/files/ce_booklet.pdf
CENTRAL ROLE OF INNOVATION
ECO-INNOVATION: ENABLING THE TRANSITION TOWARDS A CIRCULAR ECONOMY - COUNCIL
CONCLUSIONS (DECEMBER 2017)
Research and Innovation
essential to boost the sustainable and
efficient processes
Eco-innovation
increasing resilience throughout
product life cycles across sectors
rethinking supply chains and
minimising waste generation
http://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-15811-2017-INIT/en/pdf
WP 2018-2020 'Connecting economic and environmental gains – the
Circular Economy‘ € 940 m
WP 2016-2017 ‘Industry 2020 in the circular
economy’ € 650 m
CREATE THE RIGHT ENVIRONMENT FOR INNOVATION AND INVESTMENTS
Cohesion Policy: for the current (2014-2020) financing programme - €5.5 billion dedicated to waste management
European Fund for Strategic Investment - EFSI 2.0 expected to mobilise € 500 billion
Life Programme: Over EUR 100 million
NEW to download!! Life and the Circular Economy
OTHER INVESTMENTS AND FUNDING
EUROPEAN CIRCULAR ECONOMY STAKEHOLDER PLATFORM
Network of networks- Open Platform
Three pillars I. Policy dialogue gathering stakeholders' input and
views.
II. Coordination group I. Knowledge, national strategies and good
practices https://circulareconomy.europa.eu/platform
EIP on Raw Materials
EUROPEAN INNOVATION PARNERSHIPS
Supporting Circular Economy
https://sc5.easme-web.eu/?theme=green
Horizon 2020 environment data hub
How to identify local Circular
Economy potential Value
Chains
(Regional level)
How to identify cross-regional
Circular Economy
Synergies
(Operational synergies)
How to finance projects raising
from cross-regional
synergies
(Funding synergies)
How to assess the “circularity” of one project with respect to
another one
(Assessment Criteria)
METHODOLOGY FOR REGIONAL COOPERATION
http://www.screen-lab.eu/
Coordinator: KOBENHAVNS KOMMUNE (DK)
Beneficiaries: 24 (DK, IT, PT, DE)
EU contribution: 9,724,969 €
Duration: 48 months (Started: September 2016)
The four cities involved in the project, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Lisbon and Genoa, will engage enterprises, citizens and academia in 16 participatory value chain based partnerships to create and develop eco-innovative solutions.
Demos • Copenhagen: mixed plastic waste • Genoa: wood waste • Hamburg: WEEE • Lisbon: food
http://www.ce-force.eu/
Coordinator: FUNDACION DEUSTO (ES)
Beneficiaries: 24 (ES,IT, PT, GR, DE, DK)
EU contribution: 8,818,556 € €
Duration: 42 months (Started: June 2016)
The main objective is demonstrate the value of integrating and validating 20 eco-innovative solutions that cover all the waste value chain. The benefits of these solutions will be enhanced by a holistic waste data management methodology, and will be demonstrated in 4 complementary urban areas in Europe
http://waste4think.eu/
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
Vincenzo GENTE Unit B2 H2020 Environment and Resources, Eco-innovation Sector
EASME on Twitter @H2020EE • @H2020SME • @EEN_EU • @EU_ECOINNO
Innovation Deals
1.Sustainable wastewater treatment
using innovative anaerobic membrane bioreactors
technology (7 April 2017)
2.From E-mobility to
recycling: the virtuous loop of electric vehicle (12 March 2018)
