We organise our actions in six thematic & strategic agendas:
Strategic Agendas:
Bio-economy
Circular Construction
Chemicals/Plastics
Manufacturing Industry
Food Chain
Water Cycles
Seven leverages provide additional support:
Leverage effects:
Lever Policy Instruments
Lever Circular Procurement
Lever Communication
Lever Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Lever Financing
Lever Jobs & Skills
Lever Research
What, why and how?
Why are we pursuing a circular economy?
Future visions 2050
How do we see our circular future?
About our management
Who steers what at Flanders Circular?
The Living Lab Hemp+ focuses on industrial hemp and other sustainable bio-based metals and processes or combinations of these materials. With this, the partners aim to work out new possibilities for value creation, using hemp as insulation material, composites or textiles.
As the thinking around hemp evolves, new application possibilities for the crop are constantly being worked out. The Living Lab Hemp+ works around those application possibilities in the construction and manufacturing industry. To this end, the project brings different actors together to encourage and facilitate hemp cultivation in Flanders and Europe. Through co-creation, the project wants to demonstrate and stimulate the development of innovative and bio-based products with hemp biomass.
This living lab works to better define challenges and opportunities, including a network of actors willing to work around this theme. Prototypes and characterisation of impact factors are being developed, linked to material footprint and greenhouse gas emission reduction. At the system level, a mindset shift around the hemp value chain is being worked on.
UGent
Partners B & R, Trafiroad, SUREAL, Storm, Wolf & Partners, Unilin, Innovatiesteunpunt voor Landbouw en Platteland, META ARCHITECTUURBUREAU, Arteveldehogeschool, Re-Vive
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