DIGICIRC

Supported by the European Union (Grant agreement number 873468), DigiCirc brought together a team of complementary partners from across Europe. Clusters, business experts, circular professors, tech developers, consultants and designers.

 

 

 

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DigiCirc was an innovation ecosystem above all.

DigiCirc brought together companies – small & large-, public bodies and researchers to work together to address an important need: making our economy more sustainable. This has been accomplished by making it “circular”: using material and energy more efficiently, for a longer time, and making sure that leftovers and waste get used by someone else as their input.

DigiCirc is an idea.

To meet theambition above, DigiCirc promoted new digital technologies as useful tools to track and communicate the state, location and quality of materials, especially ones that are byproducts or waste. This allows organisations to work together better, and design operations that are efficient and circular.

DigiCirc was a 3-accelerator programme.

DigiCirc organised 3 business acceleration programmes, online and physical, to support SME/startup innovation for the circular economy domain, helping them make use of digital technologies. The focus was on 3 thematic areas:

• circular cities
• bioeconomy, and
• blue economy

DigiCirc was a cross-European project.

Supported by the European Union (Grant agreement number 873468), DigiCirc brought together a team of complementary partners from across Europe. Clusters, business experts, circular professors, tech developers, consultants and designers.

Europe’s transition to a circular and climate-neutral economy is as much an environmental, economic and social necessity as it is an opportunity for European businesses and citizens. To meet the targets and ambition set out by EU Circular Economy policies and actualise circular value chains as a competitive advantage, DigiCirc will empower SMEs to leverage digital technology as a key enabler for innovative circular products/ services, processes and business models. To this end, DigiCirc will create and coordinate the DigiCirc innovation network, facilitated by an engagement campaign of 3 partner clusters, to bring together a wide-spectrum of ‘triple-helix’ stakeholders (local/ regional authorities, big industry actors, SMEs, RTOs, civil society, etc.). 3 strategic high-growth domains will be in scope (Circular Cities, Bioeconomy, Blue Economy), each represented by a leading cluster in the field. The Ecosystem will lay the foundation for a holistic, dynamic and cross-border/sector open space for innovation, implement through the DigiCirc accelerators (3 calls, one in each target domain). The accelerators will be run by innovation support experts to transform validated concepts into robust business models towards a commercial launch. This will involve (i) tailored business support: courses and coaching; (ii) identifying and establishing strategic partnerships (facilitated by a dedicated Matchmaking Tool) to create complementary consortia (thematic & SMEs with a LSD enabler partner, e.g. industry, local government); (iii) two circular data platforms to simplify data use and integration across complex value chains and environments thus boosting circular business plans and concepts. Finally, A DigiCirc Roadmap will be drafted to define the path for digital-enabled circular innovation in the 3 domains, the way-forward for each of the clusters to seize upon knowledge gained and identify/define concrete sustainability options for the DigiCirc innovation network.

Societal Challenges

Skills & Jobs

Farming & Food

Impact Domains

Climate & Sustainability

Demography

Circular Economy

Health, Care & Cure

Inclusion

Abundance & Scarcity

Resilience

Safety & Security

Water & Sanitation

Mobility & Logistics

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