Hubs4Circularity

Presentation

The Hubs4Circularity (H4C) Community of Practice, a network of public and private stakeholders from industries, regions, and cities, aims to facilitate building and scaling up and replicating ecosystems of industrial and industrial-urban symbiosis, and circular economy.

Project financed under the Horizon Europe Programme of the European Union, 2022 – 2026.

Hubs4Circularity are socio-technical ecosystems for full scale industrial symbiosis, industrial-urban symbiosis and circular economy closing energy, resource and data loops at regional scale. They are an important building block for achieving the climate neutrality targets by 2050.

Become part of the European Community of Practice for Hubs4Circularity which connects actors from industry, regions and cities, H4C initiatives, and research and development organizations who are interested in sharing knowledge, experiences, tools and materials to progress faster towards industrial and industrial-urban symbiosis and circular value chains.

Activities

Two consortia with complementary strengths and expertise, H4C Europe and H4C ECoP, are behind the H4C Community of Practice. Together, they will develop a set of key performance indicators for Hubs4Circularity as well as define business models and promote funding and finance opportunities to boost industrial and industrial-urban symbiosis, and circularity.

As a member of both consortia, ACR+ will contribute to setting up and consulting a panel composed of cities and regions interested in industrial urban symbiosis (I-US). As enablers of I-US, cities and regions will have the opportunity to provide input and feedback to the tools and deliverables of the project, ensuring their relevance for the stakeholders. As a network organization, ACR+ will also have an important role in community building and dissemination activities through its members.

Partners

H4C ECOP is led by ISQ, Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade(PT), and its project partners are:

  • ISL, International Synergies LTD(UK)
  • STRANE, Strane InnovationBELGIUM (FR)
  • Climate KIC, CLIMATE-KIC HOLDING BV (NL)
  • ICLEI, ICLEI EUROPEAN SECRETARIAT GMBH (DE)
  • Technopolis, TECHNOPOLIS CONSULTING GROUP (BE)

The sister project, H4C Europe is led by CIAOTECH SRL (IT), and its project partners are:

  • ACR+, ASSOCIATION OF CITIES AND REGIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (BE)
  • ZEDO, ZEDO-ZENTRUM FUR BERATUNGSSYSTEME IN DER TECHNIK DORTMUND EV (DE)
  • CIRCE, FUNDACION CIRCE CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION DE RECURSOS Y CONSUMOS ENERGETICOS (ES)
  • COV, COVESTRO DEUTSCHLAND AG (DE)
  • DECHEMA, DECHEMA GESELLSCHAFT FUR CHEMISCHETECHNIK UND BIOTECHNOLOGIE (DECHEMA E.V.) (DE)
  • INNEN, INNOVATION ENGINEERING SRL (IT)
  • VITO, VLAAMSE INSTELLING VOOR TECHNOLOGISCH ONDERZOEK N.V. (BE)
  • SINTEF, SINTEF AS (NO)
  • TNO, NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO (NL)
  • WATER EUROPE (BE)
  • EIT Raw Materials, IT RAW MATERIALS GMBH (EIT RM) (DE)

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