Coupling circularity and climate mitigation in industrial sites and their cities and regions
Funds demonstration projects that combine circular-economy and climate-mitigation actions across at least three industrial sites and their host cities.
This is a Horizon Europe Innovation Action. Two grants are expected from a combined EUR 17,000,000 budget, each worth EUR 8,500,000. Grants awarded under this topic are linked to the earlier action HORIZON-MISS-2021-CIT-02-03, which set up the Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission Platform, and collaboration with that Platform is essential, formalised through a Memorandum of Understanding as so…
The funder wants local governance and business models that couple circularity — materials reuse, sharing-economy models — with climate mitigation in industrial-urban settings, tested in at least three demonstration sites and three replication sites across different countries. It wants measurable cuts in emissions, pollution and waste alongside new local business opportunities.
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