ACR+

THE PROJECT

The HOOP Project will help to unlock bio-based investments and deploy local bio economies in Europe through a systemic and cross-cutting approach. It will offer Project Development Assistance to a group of 8 lighthouse cities and city clusters - with a variety of sizes, geographical distribution throughout Europe and socio-economic contexts - to build the technical, economic, financial and legal expertise needed to develop concrete investments to valorise Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste or Urban Wastewater Sludge with the aim of obtaining safe and sustainable bio-based products.

The project’s key objectives are:

• Develop PDA for 8 European cities focusing on biowaste and/or sludge;
• Involve local stakeholders for each lighthouse city;
• Create a network of « follower cities » that can benefit from targeted information and peer-review processes.

ACTIVITIES

The HOOP project will focus on developing Project Development Assistance to 8 lighthouse cities and regions, to help them unlock biobased investments and deply their local bioeconomies. Each lighthouse will develop and implement these plans by involving local stakeholders. Besides, the HOOP Project will feature the HOOP Urban Circular Bioeconomy Hub, an online platform to foster knowledge exchange and replication in cities across Europe.

ACR+ will develop a network of follower cities and regions interested in moving forward with their local bioeconomy and biowaste strategy. Follower cities will be able to interact with each other and with the lighthouse cities and regions, taking advantage of the Urban Circular Bioeconomy Hub. Follower cities will also be invited to share their perspective and experience, and engage in workshops and local events, so that they can benefit from the project’s finding and replicate the successful practices.

PARTNERS INVOLVED

HOOP´s project leader is CETENMA, Asociación Empresarial Centro Tecnológico de la Energía y del Medio Ambiente de la Región de Murcia (ES) and its project partners are:

• ACR+, Association of Cities and Regions for sustainable Resource management (BE)
• ITENE, Instituto Tecnológico del Embalaje, Transporte y Logística (ES)
• SAV, S.A. Agricultores de la Vega de Valencia (ES)
• Draxis, Draxis Environmental S.A. (GR)
• Nafigate, Nafigate Corporation, A.S. (CZ)
• CETAQUA, Fundación Centro Gallego de Investigaciones del Agua (ES)
• R4L, Research4Life B.V. (NL)
• G!E, Greenovate Europe (BE)
• SfC,  Science for Change, S.L. (ES)
• 2GOOUT, Sustentepopeia Unipessoal, Lda (PT)
• CSCP, Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production gGmbH (GE)
• RdA, RdA Climate Solutions Unipessoal Lda (PT)
• BaxCo, Bax & Company (NL)
• SBE, Sara Bedin (IT)
• SAVONIA UAS, SavoniaRammattikorkeakoulu oy (Kuopio) (FI)
• BIR, BIR AS (Bergen) (NO)
• Almere, Municipality of Almere (NL)
• Lazio, Associazione Regionale dei Comuni del Lazio (IT)
• LIPOR*, Servicio Intermunicipalizado Gestao Residuos do Grande Porto (PT)
• CluBE, Cluster of Bioeconomy and Environment of Western Macedonia (GR)
• Murcia, Ayuntamiento de Murcia (ES)
• AWM, Abfallwirtschaftsbetriebe Münster (waste management department of the city of Münster) (GE)

 * ACR+ member