Objectives:

• Improving knowledge about the circular economy of organic currents and bio-economy
• Increasing the recycling rate of biomaterials
  • e.g. food waste, municipal and industrial sludge and agricultural waste
• Transfer of know-how:
  • Collaboration models, e.g. ecosystems, network cooperation and administrative cooperation
  • Optimal technologies available, e.g. biorefining, biogas production

Improving regional policies through increased focus on the circular economy of organic currents.

Actions:

• Joint development of policy tools
• Identification of optimal practices in the circular economy of organic currents and bio-economy
  • Collaboration models
  • Optimal technologies available
• Description of regional organic currents

More precisely:

• Regional meetings of the Local Group of Stakeholders
• Interregional events:
  • round table discussions,
  • seminars and
  • on-site visits
• Regional diffusion events

Local Stakeholder Group:

The Local Stakeholder Group (LSG) meets every six months and includes:

• Stakeholders of public interest
  • MOU SA
  • Solid Waste Management Agencies
  • Regional Association of Municipalities
• Companies
  • Biogas Lagada
  • KONVA
  • ANAKEM
  • ANATOLIKI SA
• Chambers / Research centers
  • Technical Chamber of Greece / Section of Central Macedonia
  • Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • Hellenic-American Chamber
  • Centre for Research & Technology Hellas

Project approach:

BIOREGIO will improve the performance of regional development policies through three levels of activities:

1. JOINT DEVELOPMENT
   • Joint analysis, thematic studies, common optimal methodologies for reporting optimal practices, expert work, policy guidelines
2. REGIONAL COOPERATION
   • Actions of the local stakeholder group in conjunction with interregional actions
3. INTERREGIONAL COOPERATION
   • Workshops, roundtable discussions, seminars, site visits
   • Learning and skills development through interregional actions
   • Active involvement of the groups of stakeholders

Results:

• Improving policy tools
  • Funding new projects affecting the management of these tools that affect the strategic focus
• Partner regions will be better equipped to develop new policies and apply new technologies and models to apply the principles of the circular economy of organic currents
• Increased professional potential
• Developing innovations related to saving natural resources and green growth
• Deepening and developing regional cooperation as well as raising public awareness

The project scheme includes a total of eight (8) partners, from six (6) European countries:

• Lahti University of Applied Sciences (Finland)
• Regional council of Paijat-Hame (Finland)
• Deputy Regional Ministry for Environment (Spain)
  • Letter of Support: Regional Government of Castilla-La Mancha
• Slovak University of Agriculture (Slovakia)
  • Letter of Support: Nitra self-governing region
• Aristotle University Thessaloniki (Greece)
• Region of Central Macedonia (Greece)
• National Research and Development Institute for Chemistry and Petrochemistry, Calarasi Subsidiary (Romania)
  • Letter of Support: Ministry of Regional Development and Public Administration
• Association of the Chambers of Agriculture of the Atlantic Area (France)
  • Letter of Support: Regional Council of Pays de la Loire