Acronym: IS2H4C
Project number: 101138473
Funding Body: European Commission – Horizon Europe
Type of funding: Public
Main Researcher: Beatriz Royo
Start date: 01/01/2024
End date: 31/01/2028
Duration: 49 months
Project description
Existing heavily industrialized areas are currently incapable of adopting large-scale industrial symbioses in terms of shared technology/infrastructure use, waste integration, energy and material utilization, as well as expanding through surrounding ecosystems in an inclusive manner for the society despite many of the EU’s key strategic priorities in sustainable regional development.
Within this context, IS2H4C proposes an ambitious and efficient innovation and action workplan to develop several solutions for the development of Hubs for Circularity (H4C) in diverse industrial areas of process industry surrounded by rural and/or urban settings in the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and Turkey.
The workplan is shaped by development and deployment of most innovative sustainable technologies and infrastructure integration in four demo hubs and is supported by ground-breaking research on societal, governmental, and business innovation for H4C. IS2H4C scales up industrial areas to H4C via implementing systemic change and integrating the surrounding ecosystems to industrial areas.
The project implements a digital collaboration platform to manage the resource, infrastructure and information-sharing within H4C via embedding of decision-support modules in the platform. IS2H4C has the ambition of reducing the energy use, waste emissions, and carbon emissions by at least 10%, 20%, and 30% respectively.
IS2H4C will contribute to pave the path towards the development of H4C based on the circularity and resilience requirements of existing and future industrial zones and their surrounding ecosystems by prioritizing resource efficiency, maximizing use of renewable energy, prevention of waste, and promoting industrial/urban/rural symbiosis via reuse and recycling of unavoidable solid, liquid, and gas waste streams.
All in all, IS2H4C’s biggest ambition is to promote H4C as Europe’s future sustainable regional development models.
Participant entities
Coordinator:
- Universiteit Twente, Netherlands
Entidades participantes:
- Montanuniversitaet Leoben, Austria
- Technische Universitat Dortmund Germany
- Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Spain
- Inegi – Instituto de Ciencia e Inovacao em Engenharia Mecanica e Engenharia Industrial, Portugal
- Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Zur Forderung der Angewandten Forschung Ev, Germany
- Fundacion Circe Centro de Investigación de Recursos y Consumos Energéticos, Spain
- Erevnitiko Panepistimiako Institouto Systimaton Epikoinonion Kai Ypologiston, Greece
- AEE – Institut Fur Nachhaltige Technologien, Austria
- Fundacion Zaragoza Logistics Center, Spain
- Energy Efficiency in Industrial Processes Asbl, Belgium
- Istanbul Maden Ve Metaller Ihracatci Birlikleri, Türkiye
- Cooperatie Waardemakers In Waterstof U.A., Netherlands
- Cluster de Energia,Spain
- Consorcio de Aguas Bilbao Bizkaia, Spain
- Cooperatie Duurzaam Aadorp U.A., Netherlands
- Kpmg & Associados Sociedade de Revisores Oficias de Contas SA, Portugal
- Turkiye Petrol Rafinerileri Anonim Sirketi, Türkiye
- Arcelik A.S., Türkiye
- Smurfit Kappa Nervion SA, Spain
- Nortegas Energia Grupo Sociedad Limitada, Spain
- Sidenor Aceros Especiales SL, Spain
- Sidenor Investigacion y Desarrollosa, Spain (Third-Party)
- Petronor Innovacion Sociedad Limitada, Spain
- Calera De Alzo Sl, Spain
- Calcinor Servicios Sa, Spain (Third Party)
- Lointek Ingenieria Y Tecnicas De Montajes SL, Spain
- Lointek Investigacion y Desarrollo SL, Spain (Third party)
- Spouted Bed Solutions Sociedad Limitada, Spain
- Infraserv Gmbh & Co. Hochst Kg, Germany
- Crowdhelix Limited, Ireland
- Iris Technology Solutions, Sociedad Limitada, Spain
- Workdeck Digital Workplace SL, Spain
- Solar Energy Conversion Power Corporation, Belgium
Contact information
For more information about the project, please contact:
Dr. Beatriz Royo, Principal Investigator, [email protected]
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 101138473.
