CCRI successes: How HOOP is turning biowaste into high-value products
The HOOP project is revolutionizing Europe’s circular economy by transforming urban biowaste into high-value products. As part of the Circular Cities and Regions Initiative (CCRI), HOOP offers innovative tools, methodologies, and guidance to support circular bioeconomy projects, effectively turning waste...
The HOOP Tales: Discover the biocircular journeys of our lighthouse cities and regions
Through the provision of Project Development Assistance (PDA), the HOOP project has supported 8 lighthouse cities and regions in developing large-scale urban circular bioeconomy initiatives, focusing on making bio-based products from urban biowaste and wastewater.
After almost four years of intense...
HOOP Project Introduces Groundbreaking Due Diligence Standard for Urban Circular BioEconomy Projects
The HOOP project aims to boost bio-based investments and foster local bioeconomies in Europe through a comprehensive approach. It provides project development assistance (PDA) to eight Lighthouse Cities and Regions, helping them acquire the necessary expertise in technical, economic, financial,...
Open Market Consultation process launched by LIPOR
In the context of the HOOP project, which is driving innovation to Vitalise Urban Bioeconomy, LIPOR launched an Open Market Consultation to find solutions for nutrient recovery present in the liquid digestate coming from the future anaerobic digestion plant.
Starting from...
Success of the HOOP Study Visit to the Innovative Company NAFIGATE, world leader in the production of P3HB biopolymer
On 1 December 2023, six members from cities and regions of the HOOP Network had the opportunity to visit the innovative company NAFIGATE, one of the leading global producers of P3HB biopolymer from biowaste (used cooking oils), in Prague. The...
Dubiop’s transformative circular journey reaches its end, marking the end of the HOOP Citizen Science interventions
Throughout the HOOP Trainers game, participants trained Dubiop by embarking on three missions, each tackling a distinct common challenge of the HOOP Lighthouse cities and regions identified in previous co-creation sessions: 1) Addressing disinformation regarding waste separation; 2) Identifying priority...
The HOOP project is all about sharing best practices and learning from each other. While usually it is our 8 Lighthouse cities and regions that are sharing work insights, the HOOP Network also includes a number of organisations that showcase...
The HOOP consortium held its 3rd General Assembly on 14-16 June in the Lighthouse city of Kuopio, Finland. Technical partners and representatives from the project lighthouse cities and regions got together during two days to review the project status and...
Discover the latest HOOP tools available only for members
The HOOP partners have been working to provide specific services to support the HOOP members to define, designing, plan and improve their local bioeconomy strategy. All these services are included in the HOOP Hub. You may have already heard of:
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The HOOP project is already planning many in-person activities for its members all over Europe but for these, you will have to wait until after the summer.
In the meanwhile, we have collected the most interesting upcoming online events on biowaste...
Get your one-on-one meeting with HOOP technical experts!
Have you missed the latest new service only for HOOP members?
The cities and regions part of the HOOP Network can now have access to a one-on-one support service provided by the HOOP partners. If you would like to have some...
HOOP Lighthouse Murcia has launched a Circular Education Lab (LEC, in Spanish), where local companies bring waste and it is reused as material for games, talks, workshops, arts and crafts. Teachers and professors can also go and take material for...
We need your help to identify barriers related to the uptake of urban biowaste valorisation solutions
Dear HOOP users,
We need your help to identify barriers related to the uptake of urban biowaste valorisation solutions.
You can access to the survey in this link: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/sav-english
The survey is part of the activities of HOOP ’mother project’ WaysTUP!. The...
The members of the HOOP Network are invited to take part in several exchange opportunities, such as conferences, workshops, meetings where they can meet the HOOP Lighthouses, or different stakeholders all over Europe involved in the push of a circular...
HOOP Trainers: Shaping the circular bioeconomy through play
Is it possible to reflect on circular bioeconomy and create bioproducts by playing games? Gamification allows reflection on real problems in fictitious scenarios and makes it possible to create tangible solutions. HOOP partner Science for Change has developed HOOP Trainers,...
The European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR), the biggest awareness raising campaign on waste reduction, celebrated its 14th edition with over 16 000 actions on waste prevention registered across Europe and beyond between 19 and 27 November. This year’s edition...
SCALIBUR and ValueWaste mother projects Final Event Conferences
Both our mother projects SCALIBUR and ValueWaste are coming to an end soon and they will hosts their final event conferences on 19 October in Valencia (Spain) and on 20 October in Cartagena, Murcia (Spain) respectively.
Circular business models, Pilot projects, Valorisation technologies