CREATE

Project Title: CREATE — Embedding advanced urban material stock methods within governance processes to enable circular economy and cities resilience

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About Create

CREATE project aims at supporting urban transformation processes towards the circular economy by making an inventory of the existing material stocks within urban construction, developing reliable scenarios for future expected material flows, and providing governance arrangements on how to approach the circular economy transition. The project will focus on the largest urban infrastructures and communal assets, namely buildings, municipal roads, water, and wastewater pipes. A truly transdisciplinary consortium will work with a mixed research design that integrates quantitative modelling with qualitative study and design of governance aspects. The project will further improve already existing, validated, and applied tools and arrangements and combine them with new digitalization technologies to inform decision-makers and enable a circular built environment. This will be achieved by engaging with a wide range of stakeholders in a co-creation process with three urban living labs and six fellow cities in five countries, which will result in numerous capacity building moments throughout the entire project. A thorough analysis of best practices of cities steering the circular economy transition together with new governance interventions will result in concrete proposals of tailored governance arrangements for the participating cities including a concrete proposal for an upscaling strategy for Europe.

Work Package Structure

The CREATE project follows a set of strategic underpinnings that connect the different work packages in three dimensions:

1. A living lab approach that is used throughout all work packages and allows for an integrated co-production of the project with stakeholders from the quadruple helix;
2. A multi-scalar capacity building approach, where the use of the living labs as the focal point of the work developed, complemented by the dissemination of knowledge to fellow cities and an outreach to urban networks in Europe, will allow for an optimized scalable process;
3. A tailored and adaptable approach that is based on the pre-existing conditions of the urban living labs and fellow cities, i.e, existing data, methods and governance procedures already being utilized by the stakeholders and providing them with new knowledge.

Through these three dimensions of concepts, the 6 work packages within CREATE project are structured and interlinked as below:

Timeline

Funding program

Urban LivingLabs

About LivingLabs

JPI Urban Europe definition:

Key components:

There are 4 key components of a Living Lab.

Steps of LivingLabs

There are 2 phases with 6 steps respectively for a Living Lab, starting with a pre phase and following by a development phase

Case Studies

• Nijmegen in the Netherlands
• Gothenburg in Sweden
• Olof Asklunds gata

Redevelopment of an industrial area in Södra Änggården into a residential area with apartment buildings, a park, a square, a school, etc. Traffic Waste and Wastewater office of Gothenburg will be involved in a project that concerns all streets and public land, including other infrastructure such as water and wastewater, electricity, energy, etc.

• Area TBD (Framtiden)
• Rennes Metropolitan area in France

Fellow cities

Partners

• Chalmers University of Technology (CTH)

  

• Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT)

  

• CitéSource (CS)

  

• Wageningen University and Research (WUR)

  

• Municipality of Nijmegen (MoN)

  

• French Geological Survey (BRGM)

  

• BEIA Consult International (BEIA)

  

• Brasov Metropolitan Agency for Sustainable Development (BMA)

  

• Göteborgs Stad, Kretslopp och vatten (GS)

  

News

October 20-21 - Physical CREATE project meeting in Gothenburg

Project results/ Deliverables

Overarching Goals

1. Develop and visualize an overview of material stocks and flows that are part of the built environment,
2. Provide tailored software solutions to cities that support a circular built environment, and
3. Co-create governance arrangements that enable a broader participation of stakeholders, experimentation with decision-support information, and the upscaling of best practices.

Deliverables

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