{"id":80934,"date":"2020-11-04T07:29:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T06:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=80934"},"modified":"2020-10-30T13:48:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T12:48:47","slug":"hoop-project-to-vitalise-europes-urban-bioeconomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/hoop-project-to-vitalise-europes-urban-bioeconomy\/","title":{"rendered":"HOOP Project to Vitalise Europe\u2019s Urban Bioeconomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hoopproject.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-80938 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/760a4def-134b-4169-9d41-9638a5666d59-300x226.png\" alt=\"760a4def-134b-4169-9d41-9638a5666d59\" width=\"236\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2020\/11\/760a4def-134b-4169-9d41-9638a5666d59-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2020\/11\/760a4def-134b-4169-9d41-9638a5666d59-1024x772.png 1024w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2020\/11\/760a4def-134b-4169-9d41-9638a5666d59-600x452.png 600w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2020\/11\/760a4def-134b-4169-9d41-9638a5666d59.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/>HOOP<\/a> is about investing in local initiatives to extract valuable resources from urban biowaste and wastewater in order to make innovative bio-based products. Advancing <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/environment\/circular-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Europe\u2019s circular economy agenda<\/a>, as a main pillar of the European Green Deal, HOOP will provide direct Project Development Assistance (PDA) to municipalities so they can build their administrative, technical, economic, financial and legal expertise. This project will help enhance the return on investments by reusing resources, creating jobs, and developing local bioeconomy capacity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HOOP is an EU-funded Horizon project that brings together 23 partners from 10 countries and 8 lighthouse cities and regions from a variety of geographies around Europe, including close to 2.5 million people together from: Kuopio (Finland), Bergen (Norway), Almere (The Netherlands), Albano-Lazio (Italy), Porto (Portugal), Region of Western Macedonia (Greece), Murcia (Spain), and M\u00fcnster (Germany).<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;HOOP will help boost investments at municipal levels and help build the capacity of local actors to contribute to Europe\u2019s bioeconomy, thereby contributing to the triple bottom-line of sustainability: what is good for the environment is good for society and great for business!&#8221;<\/em> (Gemma Castej\u00f3n, HOOP Coordinator from CETENMA)<\/p>\n<p>HOOP will work closely with municipalities to identify and boost investments in bioeconomy initiatives that can valorise the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royaldutchkusters.com\/blog\/what-is-the-organic-fraction-of-municipal-solid-waste-ofmsw\" target=\"_blank\">so-called Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste (OFMSW) <\/a>and Urban Waste Water Sludge (UWWS). The valuable resources from these biowaste streams will be used to make bio-based products, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bio-based chemicals, bioplastics, biofertilizers, biopesticides, biopolymers, biorefineries, proteins and lipids<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>HOOP: Making bio-based products from urban #biowaste and #wastewater<\/h3>\n<div class=\"BorlabsCookie _brlbs-cb-youtube\">\n<div class=\"_brlbs-content-blocker\">\n<div class=\"_brlbs-embed _brlbs-video-youtube\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"_brlbs-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/borlabs-cookie\/assets\/images\/cb-no-thumbnail.png\" alt=\"YouTube\"> <\/p>\n<div class=\"_brlbs-caption\">\n<p>By loading the video, you agree to YouTube&#8217;s privacy policy.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/policies.google.com\/privacy?hl=en&amp;gl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"_brlbs-btn _brlbs-icon-play-white\" href=\"#\" data-borlabs-cookie-unblock role=\"button\">Load video<\/a><\/p>\n<p><label><input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"unblockAll\" value=\"1\" checked> <small>Always unblock YouTube<\/small><\/label><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"borlabs-hide\" data-borlabs-cookie-type=\"content-blocker\" data-borlabs-cookie-id=\"youtube\"><script type=\"text\/template\">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<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>HOOP will engage the 4 segments of the <strong>\u201cquadruple helix\u201d<\/strong>: industry, science, civil society and policy. We will improve Europe\u2019s <strong>urban metabolism<\/strong> by demonstrating circular economy solutions for other cities to emulate, thus replicating the HOOP model and contributing to the circular economy. And a HOOP Urban Circular Bioeconomy Hub will bring together the results in an open-source online platform to foster knowledge exchange with other cities across Europe and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>About HOOP<\/h3>\n<p>Coordinated by Centro Technol\u00f3gico de la Energia y del Medio Ambiente (CETENMA) in Cartagena (Murcia), Spain, HOOP (Hub of circular cities bOOsting Platform to foster investments for the valorisation of urban biowaste and wastewater) is a four-year project that has received funding from the EU\u2019s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement #101000836. HOOP includes 23 partners from 10 European countries, including 8 \u2018lighthouse\u2019 cities\/regions with an estimated total population of close to 2.5 million inhabitants. For more details, please visit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/hoopproject.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.hoopproject.eu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Project Partners:<\/h3>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-80936\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/d9663947-dad2-44b5-8784-83fc00407f79-1024x537.jpg\" alt=\"d9663947-dad2-44b5-8784-83fc00407f79\" width=\"583\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2020\/10\/d9663947-dad2-44b5-8784-83fc00407f79-1024x537.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2020\/10\/d9663947-dad2-44b5-8784-83fc00407f79-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2020\/10\/d9663947-dad2-44b5-8784-83fc00407f79-600x314.jpg 600w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2020\/10\/d9663947-dad2-44b5-8784-83fc00407f79.jpg 1784w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOOP is about investing in local initiatives to extract valuable resources from urban biowaste and wastewater in order to make innovative bio-based products. 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