Projects
Monitoring the circular economy in Flemish cities and municipalities KU Leuven
In 2021, 293 local Flemish governments signed the Mayors' Covenant 2030, and pledged to reduce CO2-emissions by 40% by 2030. The Energy and Climate Pact between the Flemish government and the Flemish cities and municipalities identified four priority areas to achieve these targets: transport, housing, greening and rainwater (Vlaamse Overheid, 2021). In order to succeed in this transition towards a more resilient and sustainable economy while ...
Circular Prototyping / Everyone can start using biomaterials Ghent University
In the circular economy, both biological and technological material flows are considered fundamental. However, the focus of design and engineering courses is mainly on technical materials. Moreover, there is still a prominent emphasis on design and technical challenges, and social opportunities are often not considered or are underused.
With our project, we want to do three things:
- set up a first Bio-FabLab in an ...
Solutions to bottlenecks from circular experiments Hasselt University
Solutions to bottlenecks from circular experiments Hasselt University
Circular construction: the mobile unit Ghent University
Bouwunie, Hogeschool Odisee, VDAB and UGent join forces to develop a mobile unit within the open call circular economy of Circular Flanders. The mobile unit will be used to demonstrate circular floor, roof and facade constructions that can serve as an alternative to current practice. The focus is on durability, comfort, reuse and disassembly of the materials. The mobile unit will be used to go to contractors, architects and other building ...
Living Lab Plastics University of Antwerp
CESGO! Hasselt University
SizeZeroWaste Thomas More Mechelen - Antwerpen
The European Commission is laying the foundation for the transition to a circular economy with the European Green Deal and the linked Circular Economy Action Plan. The action plan formulates the ambition to make sustainable products, services and business models the norm and to avoid waste production as much as possible and identifies textiles as one of the important value chains for ...