CA22110 - Cooperation, development and cross-border transfer of Industrial Symbiosis among industry and stakeholders (LIAISE)

With the industrial sectors being one of the most responsible for carbon dioxide emissions, energy use and waste production, the implementation of a Circular Economy strategy is critical to combating climate change by steering away from the linear economy and its sustainable production and consumption while simultaneously balancing three dimensions: society, environment and economy.

On a practical level, Industrial Symbiosis (IS), understood as the process by which waste or by‐products of an industry or industrial process become the raw materials for another, has been identified as a promising enabling solution for improving environmental sustainability while simultaneously achieving economic benefits.

However, despite its potential, a lack of awareness is still observed in companies and industrial actors. In addition, IS development is still hampered by environmental, economic, technical, regulatory, organisational, social and cultural barriers.

Thus, the LIAISE COST Action aims to ensure an inclusive and holistic IS approach by generating relevant synergies among different actors from the q-helix stakeholders model and by setting the groundwork for increased and robust development of knowledge, apart from promoting future results-oriented R&D.

LIAISE will, therefore, establish a link between theory and practice, develop a participatory and practice-oriented approach to support cross-sector and cross-cycle collaborations, and establish Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for assessing the implementation of the IS business model in the industry. To this end, the excellence of this network will be developed and implemented by three cross-cutting thematic interdisciplinary Working Groups (WGs), further aggregated and exploited through a transversal WG (Dissemination and Exploitation).