Project summary
The SYMBIO project provides European regional communities with tools and methodological approaches to building bio-based business models based on circularity by-design and industrial symbiosis. Thanks to tools for integrating big data and artificial intelligence, SYMBIO shapes 10 symbiotic business models with high-profitability sustainability replicable at the EU level to increase bio-based products on the market and provides a system to modelling, measure and monitor symbiosis and its social, economic and environmental impacts. SYMBIO methodology will be designed, tested and validated in 12 EU pilot regions (Lombardy, Piedmont, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Emilia-Romagna, Carinthia, Slovenia, Croatia, Andalusia, Bruxelles Capital, Wallonia, Flanders) that have been selected based on the estimation of their bio-based resources defined by raw material availability, socio-economic indicators, intangible networks and infrastructures and potential for development of CBE close-to-market supply chains and current trends. Involving all supply chain actors in a quadruplex approach will help unlock and stimulate local development potential by promoting sustainable, innovative, tangible and participatory pathways to the green transition through an inclusive bottom-up CBE nexus.
Expected outcomes:
General overview of the SYMBIO concept and methodology with the expected outcomes by work package
The role of alchemia-nova
alchemia-nova is focusing on building methods for measuring industrial symbiosis and monitoring circularity by design across regional communities. Measuring cross-sectoral symbiotic integration capacity by exploiting emerging and untapped resources/value chains combined with an inventory of economically, environmentally and socially sustainable pathways for the valorisation of relevant regional resources, both tangible (e.g. biological, ecosystem services, etc.) and intangible (e.g. research and innovation capacity, traditional knowledge and practices, etc.). The creation of multi-stakeholder regional focus groups for the co-creation of a symbiosis capacity design and measurement system supports the methodology. It helps draw a regional “map” of biobased product acceleration cross-referenced with the biobased solutions inventory and identified best practices, thus highlighting strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
Project coordinator
LOMBARDY GREEN CHEMISTRY ASSOCIATION
Partners:
FUNDACION CORPORACION TECNOLOGICA DE ANDALUCIA
ALCHEMIA-NOVA RESEARCH & INNOVATION GEMEINNÜTZIGE GMBH
KÄRNTNER BETRIEBSANSIEDLUNGS- UND BETEILIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT M.B.H.
STARTUP EUROPE REGIONS NETWORK
STEEM, obrt za intelektualne usluge
CARDIFF METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
Project status
Start date: 01/202410/2022, duration: 36 months
Project website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101135166
Call:HORIZON-CL6-2023-CIRCBIO-01
Topic:HORIZON-CL6-2023-CircBio-01-7 – Symbiosis in the bio-based industrial ecosystems
Type of Action:HORIZON-CSA – HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
Grant Agreement Number: 101135166
Overall costs:€ 1.301.318,75
EU contribution: € 1.301.318,75
