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Discover the most impactful ways to affect and implement the Circular Economy in cities through Exchange and Learning and sharing Action Planning

Topics

  1. Circular economies
  2. Entrepreneurship and SMEs
  3. Local Economic Development

Main policy issue to be addressed in relation to the selected topics

The concept of the circular economy (CE) requires municipalities to gain knowledge about the flows that are embedded in their city: often waste, energy and water. Indeed, there are at least five recognised sectors useful to representing the circular economy: plastic, food waste, buildings and demolitions, electrical equipments and biomass, which may need waste components from other sectors. Some issues to be addressed deal with: 1) Urban social innovation initiative for waste collection and its co-operative model (set-up local waste collection points, multimedia platforms, clean-up of roads, residential and green areas, etc.); 2) Food and organic waste for social gardening, social canteens, social kitchens, social integration markets; 3) Re-pairing hubs to fix their own goods and learn new skills and practices, e.g. from technicians, woodworkers, watch repairers, tailors, etc.; 4)  Waste, art and fashion, creating pieces of art with waste, adorn cities and streets with new creations, transforming food waste into fashion fabrics and events, etc.; 5) Using abandoned buildings as CE centres, by creating gardens, social areas, exhibition areas, repairing hubs, social canteens, social restaurants, art and fashion re-use ateliers and showrooms, social food markets, areas of commercial coverage, farmhouses for peri-urban agriculture, etc. Dimensions involved: social inclusion, education, environment, entrepreneurship, citizens cooperation, job creation, skills development, etc.

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Useful Information

We are looking for potential partners from all over the EU having a population dimension which is, more or less, around 50,000 inhabitants (municipalities or even only city neighborhoods), in any case below or equal to max 100,000 inhabitants and which could act in the network not only as "consumer" of knowledge learnt from other partners, but also as "donor" of knowledge to transfer to other cities, by demonstrating at least one good practice specific to their respective city which has been made or is currently running or on-going to be achieved, which will contribute to the learning opportunities in the project; as well as offering their cities as case studies for knowledge capitalisation during and after the project; contributing to the collection and discussion of good practices; participating in ‘beta actions’ to test ideas and increase the creative engagement of communities, including members of the "quintuple helix": politicians / officials of the public sphere, representatives of the private sphere, cognitive institutions, members of the organised and unorganised civil society, thereby experimenting with and exploring opportunities for change in their city; being committed to actively build a partnership that continues to be a resource and ideas repository after the project; and being very active in building, developing and implementing a specific, strongly participated LAP based on the CE, whose measures must be implemented after the closure of the project.

Last modified:

10 March 2019

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Institution: 
Municipality of Noto
City: 
Noto
Country: 
Italy
Type of region: 
Less developed