LIFE iCirBus-4Industries – Economía Circular Innovadora en las industrias de Energía, Agua, Fertilizantes y Construcción para una Economía Regional Sostenible

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Government Agencies

Title	Description
CINEA Enlace	European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency
Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente Enlace
Programa LIFE de la Unión Europea Enlace	European Commission Environment LIFE Programme
The EU Innovation Radar Platform Enlace	Discover cutting-edge EU-funded innovations being developed by Europe’s leading researchers and innovators

Others

Title	Description
European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform Enlace	Sustainable management of Phosphorus is crucial for agriculture, food, industry, water and the environment. ESPP brings together companies and stakeholders to address the Phosphorus Challenge and its opportunities ...
Fundación para la Economía Circular / The Circular Economy Foundation Enlace	The Circular Economy Foundation is a private, Iberian ambit, and supranational projection foundation formed by a board of members that groups former senior regional administrations with a territorial and political balance. The Foundation collaborates with personalities and world experts, governments, private entities and social agents. The Foundation works in areas related to circular economy, sustainability, resource use and environment. Is currently the undisputed leader in the knowledge of these sectors, extending the work of environmental excellence to Spain and Portugal, Europe, the Mediterranean Basin, Latin America and the island territories of the planet.
Plataforma Eco-Circular Enlace	ECO-Circular.com, has as DNA the dissemination of the good practices of a multitude of companies that bet on a new economic model based on the concepts of the Circular Economy. An overcoming model of Linear Economy (produce, consume and dispose), with respect to the environment, that promotes that the products are thought and designed with materials that extend its usability, are easy to repair and that at the end of its useful life can become part of the production chain.
Plataforma tecnológica española del CO2 / Spanish CO2 Technology Platform Enlace	The Spanish CO2 Technology Platform Association (PTECO2) is an initiative developed by Spain’s private sector, research centres and universities. It is partly funded by the Ministry of Finance and Competitiveness (MINECO) and contains representatives of that ministry and also of the Ministries of Industry, Energy and Tourism (MINETUR) and Agriculture, Food and the Environment (MAGRAMA). PTECO2’s general brief is to encourage technological development in Spain so as to help reduce the environmental, social and economic impact of greenhouse gas emissions in our country.
The Circular Economy Club (CEC) Enlace	The Circular Economy Club (CEC) is the international network of over 2,600 circular economy professionals and organisations in over 60 countries. CEC aims to: 1) connecting professionals, 2) providing them with open tools and resources and 3) organising events to spur collaboration and action.
The Circular Lab Enlace	A pioneering project in Europe that was born with the vocation to bring together all the proposals that, framed under the concept of circular economy, seek to promote the best lines of innovation in the field of packaging and its subsequent recycling.

Related Projects

Title	Description
H2020 NUTRIMAN Enlace	NUTRIent MANagement and Nutrient Recovery Thematic Network
H2020 HTCycle Enlace	Sewage sludge reuse with Phosphate recovery and heavy metal absorption with an innovative HTC technology.
H2020 Project NEW_InnoNet: The Near-zero European Waste Innovation Network Enlace	Mobilise stakeholders towards building a circular economy by developing and reinforcing solid foundations for building the European Near-Zero Waste Platform.
H2020 SCREEN LAB project Enlace	El objetivo del proyecto SCREEN es desarrollar un marco de referencia de la UE para establecer sinergias operativas entre Horizonte 2020 y los Fondos Estructurales y de Inversión Europeos relacionados con la economía circular.
H2020 TrustEE - Financing and realising energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in industry Enlace	The TrustEE project aims to accelerate the implementation of energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions in industries, especially PyMES.
H2020 Volatile Project Enlace	Volatile - Biowaste derived volatile fatty acid platform for biopolymers, bioactive compounds and chemical building blocks is a project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 program (Call H2020-NMBP-BIO-2016 Grant agreement No. 720777).
Interreg Europe - SYMBI - Industrial Symbiosis for Regional Sustainable Growth and a Resource Efficient Circular Economy Enlace	INDUSTRIAL SYMBIOSIS looks at interactions between the environment, the economy and industry, and promotes the sharing of materials to minimize waste, following the example of a natural ecosystem, where everything is reused.
Interreg SUDOE CEMOWAS2 Enlace	To reinforce the capacities of the competent authorities for the implementation of territorial participative and sustainable strategies by means of a coherent management wuth the systemic approaches of the circular economy of the solid and liquid services of waste management
Interreg SUDOE CircRural 4.0 - SOE2/P1/E0539 Enlace	Towards a circular and intelligent conception of wastewater management in rural areas
LIFE ANADRY - LIFE14 ENV/ES/000524 Enlace	Dry anaerobic digestion as an alternative management & treatment solution for sewage sludge
LIFE BREWERY - LIFE16 ENV/ES/000160 Enlace	New strategies for improving the sustainability of breweries: full waste recovery for aquaculture feed
LIFE CITRUS - LIFE14 ENV/ES/000326 Enlace	Recycling of citrus industry scrap into natural additives for food
LIFE CLEANUP - LIFE16 ENV/ES/000169 Enlace	Validation of adsorbent materials and advanced oxidation techniques to remove emerging pollutants in treated wastewater
LIFE COMPOST DISEMINACIÓN - LIFE00 ENV/E/000543 Enlace	Co-composting procedures and its use on afforestation, landscaping and forestry and agricultural crops in the Andalusian region
LIFE COSMOS RICE - LIFE 11 ENV/IT/000256 Enlace	Colloidal Silica Medium, to Obtain Safe inert, from RISE husk ash
LIFE ECO-SANDFILL - LIFE15 ENV/ES/000612 Enlace	Spend foundry sand valorisation in construction sector through the validation of high-performance applications
LIFE ECOCITRIC - LIFE13 ENV/ES/000889 Enlace	Citric Waste Integrated Management
LIFE EWWR - LIFE12 INF/BE/000459 Enlace	The European Week for Waste Reduction is an initiative aiming to promote the implementation of awareness-raising actions about sustainable resource and waste management during a single week. It encourages a wide range of audiences (public authorities, private companies, civil society as well as citizens themselves) to get involved.
LIFE LO2x - LIFE12 ENV/ES/000477 Enlace	The Co-oxidation in supercritical water (COASC) project for sewage sludge and waste (LO2X) aims to demonstrate the environmental and socio-economic benefits of a synergistic co-treatment of sewage sludge and waste (raw and digested manure, food waste from high organic load, pesticides, leachates and others) with energy and phosphorus recovery through Oxidation with SuperCritical Water (OASC).
LIFE LOTECOTEC - LIFE06 ENV/D/000458 Enlace	Efficient recycling and disposal of sewage sludge with innovative thermo-catalytic low temperature conversion technique
LIFE MOROCOMP - LIFE05 TCY/MA/000141 Enlace	Design and Application of an Innovative Composting Unit for the Effective Treatment of Sludge and other Biodegradable Organic Waste in Morocco
LIFE No_Waste - LIFE14 ENV/PT/000369 Enlace	Management of biomass ash and organic waste in the recovery of degraded soils: a pilot project set in Portugal
LIFE PCR - LIFE14 ENV/NL/000029 Enlace	Pure Copper Recovery (PCR) from WtE bottom-ash An innovative heap leaching and solvent extraction process
LIFE ReNatural NZEB - LIFE17 ENV/ES/000329 Enlace	Recycled and natural materials and products to develop Nearly Zero Energy Buildings with low carbon footprint
LIFE SARMIENTO - LIFE15 CMM/ES/000032 Enlace	The project seeks to solve the problem related to the management of annual grapevine pruning (shoots or sarmientos in Spanish) by transforming them in compost and adding the resulting product to soil as an organic amendment, thus preventing its burning and improving soil status.
LIFE Sludge4Aggregates - LIFE12 ENV/ES/000123 Enlace	Valorisation of Waste Water Treatment Plants and aggregates processing sludges for lightweight aggregates production
LIFE STO3RE - LIFE14 ENV/ES/000150 Enlace	Synergic TPAD and O3 process in WWTPs for Resource Efficient waste management Energetically sustainable joint management of Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs) sludge and manure to obtain a high environmental quality “biofertilizer”
LIFE WASTE2BIOFUEL - LIFE 16/ENV/ES/000185 Enlace	Pilot project whose objective is to solve the serious environmental problem caused by the accumulation of waste in landfill, reducing the impact that poor management of them causes in the environment. The project will develop an integrated process of gasification and Fisher-Tropsch in order to convert the organic fraction of urban solid waste into biofuels, a source of energy friendly to the environment and thus reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
LIFE+ ECOdigestion - LIFE13 ENV/ES/ 000377 Enlace	Automatic control system to add organic waste in anaerobic digesters of WWTP to maximize the biogas as renewable energy