Contact person
Anna Skötte
Forsknings ochutvecklingsingenjör
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Circular Ports
The project Circular Ports supports the transition to a circular economy by testing and demonstrating CE strategies in port environments in the Baltic Sea region. By promoting cooperation between port stakeholders, the project aims to create synergies that increase resource efficiency, reduce waste, and improve sustainability in and around ports.
Circular Ports is financed by Interreg Baltic Sea Region (BSR). The project identifies that port environments in the BSR lack comprehensive overviews of their waste- and material flows, as well as the tools needed to find economically sustainable synergies related to circular economy (CE). Reasons for this can be scattered stakeholders and unclear responsibilities in the port and surrounding businesses, hindering the up scaling of circular activities. Circular Ports aims to lift synergies related to CE and to develop transferable solutions for implementing CE in ports in the BSR. These solutions will be presented in a toolbox, including methodologies for data collection and waste flow mapping, functional stakeholder platforms to identify symbiosis between organisations, business models based on CE strategies, and procurement guidelines.
Summary
Project name
Circular Ports
Status
Active
Region
Other than Sweden
RISE role in project
RISE participate in all three work packages and is work package leader of one of them
Project start
Duration
3 years
Partner
EMR European Metal Recycling GmbH, Hamburg Port Authority, City of Lappeenranta, Centrum Balticum Foundation, LAB University of Applied Sciences Ltd., Port of Tallinn, Enefit Green AS, Port of Aalborg R&D, Climate Alliance, Aalborg, Aalborg Municipality, Port of Norrköping, VTI, University of Gdansk, Metkom Ltd, Baltic Ports Organization, Hamburg University of Technology
Funders
Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme
Project website
Circular Ports - Interreg Baltic Sea Region
Coordinators
Project members
Supports the UN sustainability goals
9. Industry, innovation and infrastructure
11. Sustainable cities and communities
