The NiCE project focuses on revitalizing city centres by promoting circular lifestyles. It supports cities like Graz and Bologna in developing resource centres that encourage the reuse of materials, reduce waste, and promote sustainable urban living. It also offers a “Circular Lifestyle Monitor Tool” to help cities assess sustainable consumption patterns. The partners develop innovative urban development approaches, which focus on the creation of multifunctional resource centres and on utilising empty spaces for circular offers.
NiCE will firstly summarise the findings from all our participating countries in a synthesis report: the needs and visions of its target groups (cities and initiatives / providers of new business models, existing networks), description of strengths, weaknesses, enabling and hampering framework conditions, analyses of differences between different Central European regions and different sizes of cities and the impact of Corona pandemics.
A strategy framework will show ways for promotion and establishment of circular lifestyles in cities. It will serve as a guidance for local and regional public authorities. For the strategy framework the project partners will assess’ the existing political measures, action plans, development plans, strategies and programmes that support circular lifestyles in cities. The “monitor tool” will help any city to quickly analyse status quo, challenges and potentials for circular lifestyle in their centre. It is based on the joint assessment of sustainable consumption patterns and supporting business models that play a role in the circular development of cities.
Finally, the project will produce ‘how to’ for circular lifestyles in city centre, provide inspiration via a VR exhibition with 30 good practices of circular lifestyles, disseminate via a knowledge platform and instigate a transferability conference.
