RFPs: Urban-Industrial Symbiosis for Bio-waste Valorisation

Scopes

• Proposals under this topic should:
  • Demonstrate feasibility and viability of a full-scale biorefinery model converting bio-waste into added value products. Approaches exploiting synergies with existing waste management infrastructures, including separate collection of targeted bio-waste, and of urban-industrial symbiosis (upstream and/or downstream) are in scope.
  • Demonstrate the production of safe-and-sustainable-by-design (SSbD) added-value bio-based products, minimising the generation of waste.
  • Address logistics aspects (including separate bio-waste collection, proximity to urban areas, etc) influencing the economic viability and social acceptance of the value chain.

Funding Information

• Grant Amount: €20 million

Expected Outcomes

• Projects results are expected to contribute to the following expected outcomes:
  • Full-scale biorefinery and related value chain(s) for the sustainable valorisation of bio-waste into added-value bio-based products, with high replication potential.
  • Reduction of the amount of bio-waste currently going for incineration or landfilled.
  • Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants, due to avoiding landfilling and incineration of bio-waste.
  • Demonstrated economic and social benefits for the municipalities involved in the provision of bio-waste.
  • Increased value for society, in terms of direct and indirect employment number and quality of jobs at local and regional levels
  • Increased social acceptance of targeted bio-based products from bio-waste and increased citizen engagement in bio-waste prevention and separate collection.

Eligibility Criteria

• Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from no associated third countries or international organisations (including international European research organisations) is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been met, along with any other conditions laid down in the specific call/topic.
• A ‘legal entity’ means any natural or legal person created and recognised as such under national law, EU law or international law, which has legal personality and which may, acting in its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations, or an entity without legal personality.
• Entities eligible for funding:
  • To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
    • the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
      • Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
    • the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
      • Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
    • Countries associated to Horizon Europe;
      • Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom.

For more information, visit EC.