ECOLE: ECO industrial park network for the Alpine Regions Leveraging smart and Circular Economy

Circular economy

Programme:

Interreg Alpine Space

Priority: Carbon neutral and resource sensitive Alpine region

Purpose and goal of the project:

Industrial Parks suffer from an image of polluters, but also from increasing energy costs and a lack of knowledge about the circular economy approach. ECOLE wants to change this to accelerate the transition to a circular and resource-efficient industry in the Alps. To achieve this, the project will establish a systemic thinking community model, including policy recommendations as well as action plans prepared by local communities to integrate circular economy in their local industrial sites. Ultimately, ECOLE will contribute to transforming industrial parks in the Alps into more circular, resilient and sustainable eco-industrial parks, better prepared to face climate and economic crises.

Expected project results:

A Systemic thinking community (STC) model for the integration of circular economy (CE) in industrial parks
Guideline for Circular economy principles in Eco Industrial Parks in the Alps: pilot actions report
Alpine set of jointly developed solutions for industry stakeholders combined with policy and strategy recommendations to boost the circular economy transition in Alpine industry