Video – How the ECOLE Project Brings Together Stakeholders in IP Zalog for Advancing Sustainable Practices
In the project ECOLE: ECO industrial park network for the Alpine Regions Leveraging smart and Circular Economy, in which the Regional Development Agency of the Ljubljana Urban Region (RRA LUR) is working with partners from six Alpine countries, we are focusing on exploring the key factors for a successful transformation of industrial zones into eco-industrial parks. RRA LUR is working on connecting stakeholders within and around the Zalog industrial zone.
Good practices show that the presence of a park manager is crucial for an effective green transition—something that is more the exception than the rule in Slovenia. A manager facilitates a closer cooperation among companies, the establishment of industrial symbioses, and collaborations aimed at optimizing operations and shortening supply chains. Cooperation with local residents also plays an important role in the green ecosystem.
In the video, you can see what goals we at RRA LUR have set within the project, who we managed to engage in the Zalog area to work together towards the shared goal of reducing the carbon footprint, and why household waste oils—an extremely harmful environmental waste—now have a much better chance of ending up as biodiesel.
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The ECOLE project partnership is currently implementing 10 pilot projects across five different countries. In Slovenia, in addition to the circular initiative in Zalog led by RRA LUR, an analysis of the potential for waste heat exchange is underway in the Trata Industrial Zone in Škofja Loka. In Verona, an energy community is being established within a newly emerging industrial zone; in Trieste, a platform for industrial symbiosis is under development. In France, the initiative focuses on plastic waste recycling, while in Germany, efforts are directed towards expanding circular practices in industrial parks. In Austria, the pilot project explores thermal activation of buildings to harness renewable energy sources. Learn more about each individual project in the following video:
