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Country Denmark
Region Hovedstaden (DK01)
inVALUABLE (Insect Value Chain in a Circular Bioeconomy)

inVALUABLE (Insect Value Chain in a Circular Bioeconomy) is the largest innovation project concerning insects as feed and food in Europe to date. The vision is to create a sustainable resource-efficient industry for animal protein production based on mealworms.

Country Belgium
Region Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest (BE10)
BIGH, building sustainable aquaponic urban farms

The farms are designed to make the best use of water and energy, and to reduce the heat island effect. This initiative creates spaces to encourage greater biodiversity in cities

Country Portugal
Region Centro (PT) (PT16)
European-funded project raised awareness of sustainable mobility

Within the scope of the “Portugal 2020” program, the Municipality carried out a project to raise public awareness of the theme of sustainable mobility.

Country Denmark
Region Midtjylland (DK04)
New circular business models: focus on purchases, work clothing and the textile service industries

The challenge of the City of Herning in the beginning of the project was that all new employees of the technical operations department received brand new work clothes and whenever an employee resigned the clothes were discarded, regardless of the quality.

Country Belgium
Region Prov. Oost-Vlaanderen (BE23)
A new circular life in Ghent’s Old Dockyards

The Old Dockyards is a waterfront housing project where closing loops at the district level is key. Approximately 1,500 housing units will be constructed through publicprivate partnerships (PPPs).

Country Spain
Region Cataluña (ES51)
Fruits de Ponent Grup Cooperatiu

Fruits de Ponent Grup Cooperatiu is a second-degree cooperative recognized as an Organization of Fruit and Vegetable Producers with the number of OPFH 319.

Country Austria
Region Wien (AT13)
Smart City Vienna

Vienna is one of the most successful cities in the world when it comes to quality of life, municipal infrastructure and social innovation. Unsurprisingly, Vienna is growing! Around three million people will live in the metropolitan area in the medium term.

Country Finland
Region Etelä-Suomi (FI1C)
The city of Lahti’s CitiCAP

The goals of the CitiCAP (citizens’ cap and trade co-created) project are to reduce emissions from transport, collect and make available digital data on mobility, and develop new transport services for citizens.

Country Switzerland
Region Zürich (CH04)
Virtual conferencing: The frequentflyer researcher’s dilemma

Physical encounters are seen as important for research collaborations, fieldwork, networking, and establishing a scholarly reputation – a view often reinforced by peer pressure and the nature of the scientific evaluation system.

Country Austria
Region Oberösterreich (AT31)
EFRE-IWB urban-rural cooperation

The municipality of Perg is a project partner in the urban cooperation between R.AiNa (Region Aist - Naarn) with the market municipality of Schwertberg and Naarn iM and the municipality of Arbing.