Resilientweb toolkit for SME

Categories: Eco Design, Eco Production, Resources, Technical and Research, Energy, Communication and Education, Water, Land use, Product Service Systems, Biodiversity, Collaborative Economy

Organisation: Bruxelles Environnement (Brussels Environment administration)

Main partners:

Localisation: North Western Europe

Summary

ResilieNtWEB is a strategic support programme for SMEs to help them increase their resilience, i.e. their ability to anticipate market changes, adjust to them and learn from the process. The project partners are all innovation support actors in the North-West Europe area, aiming to make local economies more resilient and sustainable. ResilieNtWEB has developed coaching tools for enterprises to become more innovative and sustainable in the continuously changing environmental, economic and social context. This project was co-funded by the Interreg IVB programme, which promotes better integration within the Union of large regions in different countries facing similar problems. It involves national, regional and local organisations.

Ecodesign board games in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region

Categories: Eco Design, Eco Production, Material fractions, Technical and Research, Energy, Water

Organisation: ADEME (public agency in the areas of the environment, energy and sustainable development)

Main partners:

Localisation: Auvergne Rhônes Alpes (France)

Summary

ADEME, in association with the Rhône Alpes region (now Auvergne Rhône Alpes region) and the Pôle Eco-conception, created in 2009 and financed a stakeholder active on eco-design. This organization, in partnership with ADEME proposes to animate workshops for businesses around 2 games: “BtoGreen” and “In the Loop“. The objectives are to understand the strategic value of eco-innovation and to get the knowledge of key steps and issues regarding material resources management and how to prevent /mitigate these issues.

Tertre eco-zoning project in Wallonia

Categories: Biogenic fraction, Technical and Research, Energy, Water, Industrial and Territorial Ecology

Organisation: IDEA (Economic Development and Planning actor of various municipalities of Mons-Borinage and Centre)

Main partners:

Localisation: Hainaut (Belgium)

Summary

The eco-zoning Tertre is a project initiated by the Walloon Minister of Economy via “a call for project”. This call fits in a territorial approach named "Heart of Hainaut, energy center". This eco-zoning project is implemented by the creation of several working groups (WG) with different themes. Each working group is led by a project manager selected from the partners. IDEA, an economic actor of 27 municipalities, coordinates the work done, manages meetings, groups’ animation, etc.

Irisphere project (Industrial Symbiosis) in Brussels

Categories: Construction Material, Biogenic fraction, Technical and Research, Energy, Water, Wood, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Other Fractions

Organisation: Citydev.brussels - Brussels Regional Development Agency (helps businesses find sites in the Brussels-Capital Region. It also builds private homes as part of urban renewal projects)

Main partners:

  • Ecores
  • 5 firms (Solvay, ZF company, Buzzz Maxi Pesca, Rigobert, etc.)

Localisation: Brussels (Belgium)

Summary

As part of an Interreg IVB project (C2C BIZZ), Citydev.brussels and its technical sub-contractor EcoRes addressed material and energy flows on a business site, at company level. New ‘material’ matches were made between companies on site. The experiences were used to develop the Continuous Loop Tool, a database for companies where they can add their waste materials and the resources they need in order to find matches. The Irisphere program will continue after the end of C2C BIZZ on a larger scale thanks to the ERDF.