CASCADE
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Creating Awareness and Skills for Circular Approaches in the Digital Economy
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Grant Agreement number 2021-2-AT01-KA220-VET-000048800
24 months
March 2022 to March 2024
The challenge
Circular economy and the “green transition” need to go hand in hand with digitalization. Digital service companies (SMEs) can create a large impact, if they start developing digital products and services for circular economy. The use of these innovative digital CE tools will in turn enable the “going circular” for their users. The Erasmus+ project CASCADE aims to offer an innovative VET approach for companies in the digital economy to develop projects for digitally supporting circular economy.
The solution
- Objective 1
- Objective 2
- Objective 3
- Objective 4
- Objective 5
Increasing awareness and curiosity for the economic potential and benefits of circular economy in the digital economy
Breaking down barriers for the adoption of circular business approaches through IT-enabled solutions
“Spark innovation” for circular economy in the “digital world”, by training the target group on the full life-cycle of innovative, circular projects
Foster intersectoral, interregional, and international cooperation to develop innovative circular economy projects
Outcomes: Key results
- Digital service companies (SMEs)/project participants/trainees develop their own original ideas for an innovative digital CE project from scratch to successful funding and implementation
- Multipliers along the life-cycle offer CASCADE to the target group (i.e. SMEs)
- Multipliers from different sectors (higher education, adult education, schools, etc.) use CASCADE’s training materials for their own audiences
- Facilitating the transition towards a circular, sustainable economy in Europe
- More visibility for digital circular business models and circular economy “online” through projects implemented by digital service companies (SMEs)
- Increased regional, interregional, national, international cooperation between SMEs and other organizations along the project life-cycle
- T6.1 Technical specification of digital environment
- T6.2 Visual Identity/Graphic Design
- T6.3 Project Website
- T6.4 Digital environment
- T6.5 Translation
- T6.6 Pilot Test with the target group (3 SMEs per partner – 24 in total) together with the digital training materials (feedback from pilot test)
- T6.7 Update and finalization
Role of Enide
- Lead Partner of Develop the Digital Environment (R6)
Services related to the role
- Research on and Contribution of Raw Materials and Feedback to all other Rs
- National Dissemination in Spain and International Network
- Tasks and Responsibilities According to Project Management Handbook
DigitBrain
Is providing SMEs with easy access to digital twins. Using a Digital Twin, companies can rationalize the manufacturing process, make predictions regarding expected machine failures and can predict maintenance needs. ENIDE will contribute the technical aspects related to the service platform, for Combined Model Trusted Traceability Service, SLA Monitoring Service, Infrastructure Deployment Cost Recommendation Service.
TeamAware
Is developing and demonstrate an integrated and cost-efficient situational awareness system for first responders from different sectors with heterogeneous and hardly interoperable sensor units including drone mounted, wearable, and external sensor systems. ENIDE will develop a prototype for mobile interface of TeamAware common situational awareness picture.
3-CO
The 3-CO project aims to improve the sustainability performance and competitiveness of bio-based systems and will focus on consumer-oriented labelling options for sustainable industrial BBPs. The supportive framework developed in 3-CO includes actionable guidelines for label design for LCS owners that reflect consumers’ and other stakeholders’ needs, digital solutions to support better-informed decision-making processes of consumers as well as policy recommendations on deploying social measures.