BUFFER+
BUFFER carbon + water in peatlands: landscape-based solutions for climate adaptation
Wet and healthy peatlands have a strong natural potential to save carbon and, due to their water buffering capacity, play an important role in managing periods of excessive rains or droughts. Yet, in NWE regions large areas of peatlands are drained f...
MONA
MOdal shift, routing and nudging solutions in NAture areas for sustainable tourism
Nature areas in North-West Europe (NWE) face an increasing number of visitors (intensified by COVID-19) resulting in an increased pressure on nature, negative environmental impacts, higher management costs, and nuisance for local residents and visito...
HoliCow
Enable small/med dairy farmers to benefit from big data for holistic decision-making
HoliCow was born from the observation of a dramatical decrease in the number of small and medium-sized dairy farms in our territories. This decrease is multifactorial. First, access to technologies is complicated for these farms because of the invest...
ResiRiver
Creating Resilient River Systems by Mainstreaming and Upscaling NbS
Resilient River or ‘ResiRiver’ for short, is a project focusing on the creation of Resilient River Systems through mainstreaming and upscaling of Nature-based Solutions (NbS). In North-West Europe (NWE), river systems are facing significant challenge...
DeCarb-Pro
Decarbonise public procurement in NWE – account for the future
DeCarb-Pro aims to reduce carbon emissions resulting from procurement by local authorities in Northwest Europe. Because public procurement has a key impact on carbon emissions. We want to achieve this goal by implementing carbon pricing in tenders pu...
CASCADE
Circular Conversion Cascades to Transform Residual Biomass to Carbon Products
The CASCADE project, part of the Interreg NWE initiative, aims to address the significant waste of 37 million tonnes of residual biomass per year in North West Europe (NWE), representing a potential saving of over 30 million tonnes of CO2. Previous s...
AquaCOM
Aquathermal Heating and Cooling for Energy Communities
Aquathermal energy technologies enable the extraction of heat or cold from water – surface water from rivers, canals, lakes, etc – and subsequent processing, through heat pumps, to support local or district heat networks. The AquaCOM project aims to ...
ReNu2Cycle
REcycling of NUtrients to close the fertiliser CYCLE
Europe is importing annually over 6 million ton of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) fertiliser. NPK pricing is coupled to energy, mining, synthesis and transport costs. Russia and Ukraine were main N suppliers to EU, while P supply is h...
BEPROACT
BEPROACT – Building an Ecosystem to PROACTively develop data-driven asset management
Society depends on critical infrastructure assets e.g. highways/traffic management systems, built environment and water plants to perform their purpose, be secure and reliable, and to avoid significant economic impact. Ideally, “Talking Assets” could...
Hemp4Circularity
Hemp as a driver of circularity in the textile industry: from field to recycled fibre
Hemp4Circularity is an Interreg NWE project that aims to implement an innovative, local and biobased ecological fibre - the long fibre hemp - in the textile value chain of North-West Europe, from growers to weavers/knitters, from field to fashion. Th...
SCEPA
Scaling Up the Energy Poverty Approach
Energy poverty has been deemed a major challenge by the European Commission and “lifting vulnerable citizens out of it is an urgent task for the EU”. EU-surveys in 2021 found that energy poverty applied to up to 125 million citizens already. Due to r...
IB-Green
Industrial and Business Parks – climate resilient & fit for future
Industrial and business parks (IBPs) are highly sealed and especially vulnerable to overheating. They take up a decisive part of the North-West Europe settlement area and play a crucial role in increasing urban heat islands. IB-Green (Industrial and ...