Smart V4 Strategies

South Poland Cleantech Cluster participates in a newly started Visegrad project together with partners – Czech Smart City Cluster, Slovak Smart City Cluster and Digitalis Jolet nonprofit from Hungary. The project “Smart V4 Strategies” was awarded financing support from the Visegrad Fund.

The aim of the project is to connect relevant partners in the given area of SMART strategies and prepare procedures for classification of SMART strategies in V4 countries into one complex database portal. The project offers V4 partners international cooperation in unifying SMART strategies to GreenDeal/SDG rules. The vision is to strengthen the unity and effectiveness in implementation of SMART strategies in all V4 countries.
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South Poland Cleantech Cluster

is the initiator of the krk UrbanHub project - a sustainable CEE (Central- and Eastern European) urbanization hub
krakowurbanhub is a partner in the urbanhub europe consortium of European cities consisting of BLOXHUB in Copenhagen, KIRAHub in Helsinki, Munich Urban Colab, FACTORY Hammerbrooklyn Hamburg, FAKTORY Berlin, Urban Resilience Hub Barcelona
krk UrbanHub is a national and international meeting place that engages people in architecture, design and sustainable urban development. This is done through exhibitions, debates, events, business development and new partnerships.
krk UrbaHhub is an ecosystem for creating cities of the future, and at the same time a space to share ideas, skills and strategies for designing buildings and urban development based on a people-centered approach and high standards of sustainable development, and a membership-based community combining urban development, architecture, design, design, construction, circular economy and digitization.
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South Poland Cleantech Cluster

SPCleantech is co-founder of European Alliance for Cross- Industrial Circular Economy Investments (ICEI Alliance) consisting of European clusters and universities. During 2020-2021 there have been held meetings to prepare the establishment of the European Alliance for Cross- Industrial Circular Economy Investments, hosted by the Circular Economy Centre at Digipolis, Kemi, Finland.

The ICEI Alliance has for ambition to make Europe the global industrial circular economy platform to accelerate the deployment of world-class circular economy solutions to industry. It acts as a pipeline of business-led circular economy investment projects. Alliance members support businesses with the structuring of their investment cases as well as with accessing funding and financing streams.
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The CEO and employee of SPCleantech in Copenhagen, Martin met on 28th August, 2019 in Kalundborg, Denmark with the management of the municipality of Kalundborg and the Danish Symbiosis Center, Lisbeth Randers, director of Development and Projects, director of the Center, Per Møller and Tage Riskjær Svendsen responsible for the economic development of the municipality of Kalundborg. During the meeting, participants discussed the possibilities of cooperation covering topics of industrial symbiosis and circular economy (GOZ). They talked about joint applications for EU funds under various EU programs aimed at developing the circular economy.

In the Danish town of Kalundborg, a number of industrial companies exchange waste and resources with each other in an elaborate network of pipelines. The cooperation is known as ”Kalundborg Symbiosis”.

Among the participants are a refinery, a power plant, an enzyme producer, a producer of insulin, and a manufacturer of gypsum board.

These companies send waste from their production process on to other companies in the system, which can then use this as valuable input for their process. Steam, sludge, fly ash or hot water are some of the resources exchanged.

Kalundborg symbiosis is one of the clearest examples of a circular economy, which minimizes waste and re-uses resources in a system, which in many respects resembles a metabolism – or an eco-system of very diverse participants.

An answer to a shared challange 
Increasing raw material prices and turbulence in world markets are not the only shared challenges that industrial symbioses can counteract. When other global challenges, such as climate impact and lack of resources, require collaboration and shared solutions, one can understand why the UN, the EU and the OECD have also seen the light and are working with the fostering of industrial symbioses.

Something for everyone 
The work at Symbiosis Center Denmark does not merely involve the promotion of symbioses in large, heavy industries. There is a great pent-up potential in small and medium-sized companies, where job creation occurs to a great degree. In particular, the Residue to Resource project is focused on realising direct, measurable benefits for small and medium-sized companies.