DECISO

Presentation

DECISO - Developers of Circular Solutions - supports the delivery of services to induce investments projects for developing circular economy in Hamburg, Northwest Germany, West Macedonia, and Alentejo. They adopt an innovative approach known as the Circular Economy Ecosystem, which emphasises the mobilisation of local stakeholders and citizen involvement. The project seeks to drive economic, organisational, and cultural changes through systemic solutions.

Project co-financed under the CCRI programme of the European Union, 2023-2025.

DECISO aims to support the delivery of services to induce investments projects for developing circular economy at local and regional scale in the following regions: Hamburg. Northwest Germany, West Macedonia, Alentejo. This is in line with implementing the European Green Deal and the EU circular economy action plan. DECISO will accompany the actions aiming to provide assistance for promoters in the development of financial schemes/programs for projects on Circular Economy, based on the concept of Circular Economy Ecosystem (CEE), which implies mobilizing local stakeholders and, when necessary, citizens, and scaling up the results from the local, to the national and European level. The CEE approach will make it possible to deal with economic, organizational and cultural change through systemic solutions that involve all the players in the value chain of an asset and all those who can influence, even indirectly, its value. This approach also allows to reduce risks for investors, because ecosystems with all their key factors, including geographic location, cultural factors and institutional support, actively help an innovation become successful. Since the paradigm of the Circular Economy Ecosystems can be declined in different ways, based on the objective of the initiative, the local context, the type of actors and the sector, the DECISO approach will be implemented in different local contexts and topics in order to produce guidelines that can facilitate the replicability of the initiatives put in place considering all the technical, economic, legislative, social factors that can determine the success or failure of the initiatives. 

Activities

ACR+ is leading the Communication, Dissemination, Exploitation and Upscaling of the project. In the initial phase of the project, ACR+ develops a strategy for communication, dissemination and exploitation of the results. This strategy is laid down in a document, including a detailed work plan which shows when and which partner will carry out which communication and dissemination tasks. The exploitation strategy is developed in collaboration with colleagues from KoysLab and Oficinae Verdi who oversee implementing exploitation activities. 

Furthermore, ACR+ oversees developing and maintaining the website throughout the project. The website is hosted on a server of CRN who also manage the DECISO Ecosystems pages. 

ACR+ is also developing promotional material (leaflet, brochures, roll-ups, posters, infographics, factsheets) and developed a guide for project partners on how to use this material. 

Several workshops in Brussels will be held during the project, bringing together the project partners with EU level stakeholders and colleagues from sister projects. These EU-level workshops will be organised by ACR+ who will rely on its broad network in Brussels to find efficient solutions. 

Finally, ACR+ will be involved in several other tasks throughout the project, assisting partners in charge of other activities, such as by carrying out literature reviews or identifying stakeholders. ACR+ will make use of its member network to engage other local and regional authorities in the project and encourage exploitation. 

Partners

DECISO´s project leader is CNR,Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IT), and its project partners are:

  • ACR+, ASSOCIATION OF CITIES AND REGIONSFOR SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT(BE)
  • CDDR, COMISSAO DE COORDENACAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO REGIONAL DO ALENTEJO(PT)
  • IRRADIARE,IRRADIARE INVESTIGACAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO EM ENGENHARIA E AMBIENTE LDA (PT)
  • MDHC, MUNICIPAL DISTRICT HEATING COMPANY OF THE WIDER REGION OF AMYNTAIO(GR)
  • PDM, ANEPISTIMIO DYTIKIS MAKEDONIAS(GR)
  • FHH,  FREIE UND HANSESTADT HAMBURG(DE)
  • OOWV, OLDENBURGISCH-OSTFRIESISCHER WASSERVERBAND(DE)
  • OV, OFFICINAE VERDI GROUP SPA(IT)
  • KOYS, KOYS srls(IT)

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