The SCALE-UP project helps regional multi-actor partnerships identify and scale-up innovative, sustainable bio-based value chains that build on regional resources.
It aims to adapt, implement and evaluate tools to help regional actors overcome bottlenecks towards fully exploiting circular bioeconomy potential. In this way, it will promote regional, rural, local/urban and consumer-based transitions towards a sustainable, regenerative, inclusive and just circular economy and bioeconomy across all regions of Europe.
BIOBUILD, a Horizon Europe-funded innovation project, has been launched with a €4.9 million budget to provide thermal solutions for energy efficient buildings using fully bio-based building materials.
The project incorporates bio-based phase change materials (bioPCMs) into solid wood and fibres bound by plant oil resins, lignin and fungal mycelium. BIOBUILD aims to reduce the energy consumption of buildings by up to 20%.
The transition towards the circular economy entails complex economic and social changes. Using a survey, the EDUCIRC project will provide policy recommendations on rural development, with particular emphasis on women and young people.
It will devise a new methodology for assessing the capacity of rural areas to deliver this transition and identify the main obstacles, strengths and problems, as well as possible solutions.
In Italy and France, where the IN.TE.SE project was developed, new decentralised composting services were designed and implemented for domestic and community users, tailored to the local areas.
