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WHAT IS CSTO2NE?

Abstract

The European Commission (EC) launched the New European Bauhaus initiative to improve the well-being and health of citizens and future generations. The initiative is an environmental, economic, and cultural project aiming to combine design, sustainability, accessibility, affordability, and investment with helping deliver the European Green Deal. It aims at sustainable solutions that create a dialogue between our built environment and the planet’s ecosystems. CSTO2NE aims to provide the European community with innovative solutions for recycling and valorising biowaste (biomass) and industrial waste into new eco-engineered materials through industrial symbiosis waste co-utilisation, mineral carbonation, and biomimicry approach; namely, nature-inspired solutions and technologies for improving carbon uptake and waste incorporation and design eco-engineered materials and, transference of the emergent technologies through eco-innovation business models.

In this context, CSTO2NE intends to :

  1. Promote international and inter-disciplinary collaboration through research and innovation staff exchanges, leading to extended networks and opportunities ;

  2. Enhanced networking and communication capacities with scientific peers, as well as with the general public that will increase the project’s impact ;

  3. Foster a shared culture of open access research an co-creation, that welcomes and rewards creativity and entrepreneurship, inspired by the New European Bauhaus concept, fostering ideas into innovative prototypes and technologies for the eco-materials circular economy.

Overview of project content:

5 Workpackages to innovate

Workpackage 1

Coordination & Management

Objectives of the WP1:

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  • Optimize program organization for:

    • Better knowledge transfer ;

    • Establish useful long-term collaboration between partners.

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  • Coordinate the activities and R&D collaborations between all the european partners to maximize the outputs.​

Workpackage 2

Knowledge Share & Dissemination

Objectives of the WP2:

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  • Stenghten the transfer of knowledge: maximize scientific collaboration between consortium members ;​

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  • Maximize the dissem​ination of knowledge and skills produced by collaborative work.

Workpackage 3

Upcycling &
Carbon Intake

Objectives of the WP3:

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  • Identify and categorize waste in order to develop appropriate waste valorization processes:

    • in particular: production of building materials via mineral carbonation of CO2.​

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  • Demonstrate industrial feasibility and diversity of applications for carbonate materials:

    • in particular: carbonated materials based on biowaste, industrial waste (including saltwater and wastewater)​

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  • Develop bio-inspired innovative solutions to improve current waste co-utilization & accelerated carbonation technologies. ​

Workpackage 4

Prototype design & Properties 

Objectives of the WP4:

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  • Develop innovative carbon absorbent technologies and protoypes to adress different use cases:

    • pervious materials ;​

    • extreme weather-resistant materials;

    • solar collectors for roofs and buildings;

    • soil protection and recovery;

    • building resilient material;

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  • For each solutions produce Life Cycle Assessment to improve climate-neutral circular economy.​

Workpackage 5

Eco-innovation Business models

Objectives of the WP5:

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  • Create business model design compatible with:​

    • development of new technologies;​

    • waste valorization and recycling;

    • circular economy and waste and warbon management.

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  • Produce an internation handbook on eco-innovation business models.​

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