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PROGRAMME 2021-2027
priority
3 Climate-neutral societies
objective
3.1 Circular economy
Project type
Implementation
March 2025 - February 2028
Circular Ports
In the project Circular Ports, Baltic Sea ports explore symbiosis opportunities within port environments for waste reduction and material reuse, establishing viable circular business models.
The EU Green Deal launched a strategy for a climate-neutral, resource-efficient & competitive economy, in which strengthening Circular Economy (CE) is a main building block, to fight climate change. Anyhow, port environments (port city administrations, port authorities, enterprises) neither have the overview about waste-/material flows & supply chains nor instruments to find economic feasible CE-synergies today. Reasons are a scattered stakeholder environment and unclear responsibilities. This hinders to develop CE best practices in port environments, to be scaled-up in the BSR too. Circular Ports lifts CE synergies & provides transferable solutions to deploy CE in BSR port environments, presented in a toolbox that contains: - A methodology for data collection, -mining, & -visualisation on waste-/material flows in port environments to provide a basis for CE strategy implementation. - Functional stakeholder platforms to find symbioses between enterprises. - Business models based on CE-strategies to motivate replicators to scale-up solutions. - Procurement guidelines considering CE. Applying the CE principle benefits in an increased GDP by +0.5% & +700,000 new jobs by 2030 in the EU, less emissions & by that fights climate change. Further, there is a clear business case for enterprises: since manufactures in the EU spend 40% on materials, closed loop models can increase their profitability, while sheltering them from resource price fluctuations & providing better resilience.
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Budgets
Circular Ports
in numbers.
in numbers.
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4.15MillionTotal
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3.32MillionErdf
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0.00MillionNorway
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Circular Ports
in numbers.
Project partners
Lead partnerPort of Hamburg Marketing
- TownHamburg
- Region
- CountryGermany
- RegionHamburg
- RepresentativePort of Hamburg Marketing
- Phone
- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
593,900.00
EMR European Metal Recycling GmbH
- TownHamburg
- Region
- CountryGermany
- RegionHamburg
- RepresentativeEMR European Metal Recycling GmbH
- Phone
- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
248,500.00
Hamburg Port Authority
- TownHamburg
- Region
- CountryGermany
- RegionHamburg
- RepresentativeHamburg Port Authority
- Phone
- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
94,000.00
City of Lappeenranta
- TownLappeenranta
- Region
- CountryFinland
- RegionEtelä-Karjala
- RepresentativeCity of Lappeenranta
- Phone
- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
267,401.60
Centrum Balticum Foundation
- TownTURKU
- Region
- CountryFinland
- RegionVarsinais-Suomi
- RepresentativeCentrum Balticum Foundation
- Phone
- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
254,960.00
LAB University of Applied Sciences Ltd.
- TownLappeenranta
- Region
- CountryFinland
- RegionEtelä-Karjala
- RepresentativeLAB University of Applied Sciences Ltd.
- Phone
- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
249,639.60
Port of Tallinn
- TownTallinn
- Region
- CountryEstonia
- RegionPõhja-Eesti
- RepresentativePort of Tallinn
- Phone
- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
200,656.80
Enefit Green AS
- TownTallinn
- Region
- CountryEstonia
- RegionPõhja-Eesti
- RepresentativeEnefit Green AS
- Phone
- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
195,501.00
Port of Aalborg R&D
- TownAalborg Øst
- Region
- CountryDenmark
- RegionNordjylland
- RepresentativePort of Aalborg R&D
- Phone
- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
359,280.19
Climate Alliance, Aalborg, Aalborg Municipality
- TownNørresundby
- Region
- CountryDenmark
- RegionNordjylland
- RepresentativeClimate Alliance, Aalborg, Aalborg Municipality
- Phone
- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
149,580.00
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB
- TownGöteborg
- Region
- CountrySweden
- RegionNorrbottens län
- RepresentativeRISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB
- Phone
- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
211,076.00
Port of Norrköping
- TownNorrköping
- Region
- CountrySweden
- RegionÖstergötlands län
- RepresentativePort of Norrköping
- Phone
- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
169,557.00
University of Gdansk
- TownGdańsk
- Region
- CountryPoland
- RegionTrójmiejski
- RepresentativeUniversity of Gdansk
- Phone
- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
366,625.00
Metkom Ltd
- TownDebica
- Region
- CountryPoland
- RegionTarnobrzeski
- RepresentativeMetkom Ltd
- Phone
- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
217,100.00
Baltic Ports Organization
- TownTallinn
- Region
- CountryEstonia
- RegionPõhja-Eesti
- RepresentativeBaltic Ports Organization
- Phone
- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
135,004.00
The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
- TownLinköping
- Region
- CountrySweden
- RegionÖstergötlands län
- RepresentativeThe Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
- Phone
- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
155,250.00
Hamburg University of Technology
- TownHamburg
- Region
- CountryGermany
- RegionHamburg
- RepresentativeHamburg University of Technology
- Phone
- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
284,100.00
Contacts
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Financial managerKerstin PfietzmannPort of Hamburg Marketing
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Communication managerPaula BivesonCentrum Balticum Foundation
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Project managerAdina CailliauxPort of Hamburg Marketing
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