Project Call 2018: Who are the winners?

Re-Industrialise is always looking to support ambitious initiatives with a clear pathway to positive climate impact and innovative ideas that foster a sustainable industry transformation. Project Calls are being announced twice a year and give regions, research institutions, industries and entrepreneurs the opportunity to participate.

Interested to learn more about this year’s winners awarded under the Re-Industrialise Project Call? Let’s have a look!

1: Supporting smart diversification of the Silesian industrial base
Partners: WiseEuropa – Climate Strategies

Leveraging existing regional expertise to replace high-carbon technologies with new, low-carbon market opportunities in Silesia, one of the largest coal mining regions in the EU. The project will enable interaction and cooperation between regional stakeholders and climate-friendly innovation businesses.

2: Possible locational effects of deep decarbonisation of basic industries
Partners: Wuppertal Institute – Lund University

Expanding an existing energy model for the steel industry to include transport and energy supply infrastructures, and costs at specific sites. The project will specificially analyse place-based impacts resulting from deep decarbonisation strategies across Europe.

3: Gela – The urban curation of industrial transformation
Partners: TU Berlin – Austrian Institute of Technology

Identifying, addressing and enabling local stakeholders to participate in the redevelopment process of urban economies. The project will base its work on the city of Gela in Italy, that had relied for decades on an energy-intensive industry as the single provider of economic prosperity and labour.

4: Smart Transitions
Partners: The University Court of the University of Edinburgh

Identifying, adapting and applying existing smart specialisation tools for regions, to include decarbonisation as a parameter. The project will specifically focus on two high-emitting EU regions, in the United Kingdom and Poland.

5: HyDistrict
Partner: ENGIE

Preparing a platform for a hydrogen-based industry in Northrhine-Westphalia, developed by EIT-Climate KIC partner ENGIE, in collaboration with Innovationsregion Rheinisches Revier and HyCologne Wasserstoff Region Rheinland. Through stakeholder collaboration and consultation, the project flags opportunities and barriers for implementing hydrogen-based alternatives in the area.

Interested in becoming part of Re-Industrialise? Get in touch at re-industrialise@climate-kic.org