WORKSHOP
LOCAL CIRCULAR POTENTIAL: Biobased Side and Waste Streams
Date: 24.04.2025
Time: 9:30 -15:00
Venue: Warsaw University of Technology, Rektorska 4, Warsaw
Participation: on-site/ online
Registration: fill the form
For WHOM?
We kindly invite local stakeholders, including municipal and regional representatives, industries involved in or interested in these streams, as well as supportive stakeholders such as policymakers, NGOs and funding parties, to participate in an interactive open discussion. The focus will be on identifying local needs, challenges, and motivations for adopting developed open-access systemic circular economy solutions.
TREASoURcE project aims to initiate systemic change by developing technologies and systemic circular economy (CE) solutions in cities and regions for currently underutilized or unused plastic waste, end-of life electric vehicle batteries and bio-based side and waste streams.
To replicate developed solutions in Poland and discuss the needs, opportunities with Polish stakeholders the interactive onsite workshop will be organized in Warsaw. Main objective of the workshop is to understand what kind of factors need to be taken into consideration locally for circular solutions of biobased side and waste streams to be replicated in Poland as well as to identify local interests, needs and possible challenges.
Workshop will be organized in hybrid format (F2F with online streaming). There will be simultaneous interpretation (English-Polish-English) provided for all participants and presenters.
Objective: to introduce and disseminate TREASOURCE practices in Poland and to understand the conditions under which their replication is possible.
EU-funded project
TREASoURcE is part of the European Union’s Circular Cities and Regions Initiative (CCRI) that seeks to support the implementation of circular economy solutions across Europe’s cities and regions. TREASoURcE project aims to initiate systemic change by developing technologies and systemic circular economy (CE) solutions in cities and regions for currently underutilized or unused plastic waste, end-of life electric vehicle batteries and bio-based side and waste streams. Implementing these solutions together with companies, societies (including citizens, consumers, communities, and regional actors) and experts in the field is expected to significantly increase product and material circulation in the Nordic and Baltic Sea Regions.
Project duration is 06/2022 – 05/2026. Project is coordinated by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.
Project Website: TREASoURcE - Territorial and regional demonstrations of circular systemic solutions
Agenda
9:00 – 9:30 Registration and coffee
9:30 – 9:50 Welcome from the organisers. Agenda of the day. Introduction to TREASoURcE project. Magdalena Edvardsen (Fredrikstad)
9:50 – 10:00 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Poland
10:00 – 10:20 Rural-urban symbiosis model. Magdalena Edvardsen (Fredrikstad)
10:20 – 10:40 Local bioeconomy model. Jaana Koivisto (EKOF)
10:40 – 11:20 GROUP WORK part I
11:20 – 11:30 Wrapping up by the moderators
11:30 – 11:40 Coffee break with snacks
11:40 – 11:55 Digital marketplace KiertoaSuomesta.fi in Finland. Nora Berglund (MTK)
11:55 – 12:10 Estonian perspective on digital platform. Margit Kull (TalTech).
12:10 – 12:55 GROUP WORK part II
12:55 – 13:15 Presentation of results by Work Group leaders
13:15 – 13:20 Concluding remarks
13:20 – 15:00 Working lunch for participants and continuing discussions