Project duration: 1 January 2016 – 31 December 2018
Objective
Sustainability support in decision making towards the design of products and services for the circular economy.
The solution (technology)
The SSIC provides information on the sustainability of material stocks, evidence on resource efficiency, analysis of critical raw material savings, guidance on innovation options for life cycle impact hotspots, sustainable up-scaling scenarios, socio-economic costs and benefits, job creation potential of new technologies, market potential, recyclability benefits of new waste valorization options, etc. By clustering the available state-of-the-art technologies and these sustainability support systems, the SSIC helps the industry and research community in solution-driven optimization.
Partnership
- Ghent University, Belgium (Lead Partner)
- Agenzia Nazionale per le Nuove Tecnologie, l’Energia e lo Sviluppo Economico Sostenibile (ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development), Italy
- Ecoinnovazione, Italy
- Flemish Institute for Technological Research NV (VITO), Belgium
- Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Italy
- Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Denmark
- IVL Svenska Miljoeinstitutet AB (IVL Swedish Environmental Research lnstitute), Sweden
- European Commission, DG JRC (Joint Research Centre), EU
- Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium
- Leiden University, the Netherlands
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek, TNO (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research), the Netherlands
- Technische Universiteit Delft (Delft University of Technology), the Netherlands
- Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT (Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. VTT), Finland
- Université de Bordeaux (University of Bordeaux), France
- Wuppertal Institut fuer Klima, Umwelt, Energie GmbH (Wuppertal Institute), Germany
For more information, please check the official website of the project.