RE-INCITE

RE-INCITE tackles the challenge of establishing a circular economy (CE) within the Alpine Space. Turning industrial waste streams into secondary material (SM) for other industries is the key to implement CE. It reduces CO2 footprint and reduces dependencies from raw material sources. Most Alpine regions have set up CE strategies but struggle to implement them.

Clusters serve as sounding boards, external knowledge base and give advice to their members. Their perception is totally different as they already know that value chains are going to be redesigned (also) based on the use of raw or secondary materials.

Clusters have the necessary soft power to convince the companies to change their behaviour and to support the municipalities. Industry experts from the participating clusters will offer their sector specific knowledge to their counterparts in local & regional authorities. The project targets at forming a new cross-sectorial and cross-border governance nucleus that might serve as a new role model connecting clusters and municipalities. It helps regional public authorities to implement (macro)-regional CE strategies. The Region Stuttgart as consortium member, Basel, Ljubljana and others as partners will serve as a role model for other participating municipalities.