SURFACE – SMART URBAN SOLUTIONS FOR CIRCULAR ECONOMY

The SURFACE project brought together 10 partners from Central Europe (AUT, BEL, CZE, DEU, HUN, ITA, PL, SLO) with the aim to set up multi-stakeholder based Smart Re-Use parks as a possible solution for increasing sustainability in selected functional urban areas. The involved regions benefitted from the transnational cooperation through know-how-exchange and learning from best practice examples. This knowledge exchange was especially addressed with the regularly held Multi-Stakeholder-Fora and the Twinning Learning Journeys.

Project outputs and results include:

• 2 Action Plans and Strategies for the 9 involved Functional Urban Area
• 5 Tools and Services for establishing urban re-used oriented roadmaps and Smart Re-Use Parks.
• SRP-Activation Toolbox: A set of open-source documents and tools to help start a Smart Re-use Park
• 5 Smart Re-use Parks (SRP) in IT, AT, DE, PL, HU including two digital platforms
• 4 Feasibility studies were carried out for future SRP in IT, CZ, SI, HR
• 18 regions and cities in total were working on the set-up of SRP: The impact of the project increased twofold through the ‘Twinning scheme’ where each partner region engaged a ‘twin’ partner interested in replicating the SRP
• 366 people were trained in the course of the Multistakeholder Forum on Urban Waste Prevention Plans; the SRP training schemes and activation tools trainings
• 9 implemented Twinning plans and trainings
• 5 Twinning Learning Journeys with personal and virtual site visits at the SRPs and thematic workshops were performed.

This project is funded under Interreg Central Europe.

https://programme2014-20.interreg-central.eu/Content.Node/SURFACE.html