European tools
SYMBI
Industrial Symbiosis for Regional Sustainable Growth and a Resource Efficient Circular Economy
An EU co-financed project of the Operational Program Interreg Europe, in which the Municipality of Kozani participates with 8 more Bodies from European countries (Spain, Italy, Slovenia, Finland, Poland, Hungary). These are regional public bodies that differ from each other in size and scope of activity.
The project started on 1.4.2016 and ended on 30.9.2022. Its total funding was €1,599,357.00, while the Municipality of Kozani absorbed approximately €126,000.00.
The aim of the project is to improve the implementation of regional development policies and programs related to the promotion and dissemination of industrial symbiosis and circular economy, to empower the regions to create a coherent and sustainable economy, which will be resistant to environmental pressures and changes that climate change will gradually bring about.
The project contributed to the formation of the vision of the Municipality of Kozani for the future of the region, integrating the circular economy perspective into it, to the mapping of sustainable and viable interventions to promote Circular Economy and the synthesis of circular applications, which will bring economic, social and environmental benefits.
STARDUST
STARDUST is an EU Horizon 2020 Smart Cities project, which brings together advanced European cities, thus forming into a constellation of “innovation islands” – exemplary models of smart, highly efficient, intelligent and citizen-oriented cities.
Technical green solutions and innovative non-technical solutions will be implemented and validated, enabling them to be bankable and replicable for other cities. Indeed, STARDUST will lighten up the path for cities to relish a more sustainable livelihood by interweaving innovation and imagination at your fingertips.
EHHUR (4.5.2022)
The New European Bauhaus (NEB) aims to bridge the world of art, culture and education with science and technology.
The Municipality of Kozani is expected to accelerate its green transformation, following the selection by the European Commission for the inclusion of the “EHHUR-EYES HEARTS HANDS Urban Revolution” project in the New European Bauhaus in which it participates as a partner, in a proposal submitted jointly with EKETA (national coordinating partner) and the Bioeconomy and Environment Cluster of Western Macedonia, which was coordinated by the Italian company RINA.
The project for which Kozani was chosen concerns the pilot application of new technologies for the energy, aesthetic and digital upgrade of an area in the urban fabric of the city, which extends to two municipal school buildings, the park of Agios Dimitrios, the municipal building that houses the Municipal Theater and the services of the Univercity of Western Macedonia, as well as the surrounding roads between Rousiadou – Cyprus – Stratilaton – Trion Ierarchon – Ikaron.
The project is expected to contribute to the fulfillment of the Mission of 100 Climate Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030, as the initiative of the New European Bauhaus is aligned with the principles and goals of the Mission, in which the Municipality of Kozani has been selected.
PROLIGHT (3.10.2022)
Prolight is a program that addresses Energy Poverty through the smart upgrade of homes.
Energy Poverty is a constantly worsening problem that threatens society and the economy, especially in the context of the recent crisis of the war in Ukraine.
The Municipality of Kozani with the Cluster of Bioeconomy and Environment of Western Macedonia, participate in the Horizon Project «ProLight», through which we are looking for solutions related to the Energy Upgrade of homes, with simultaneous energy production from RES, integrated through smart interconnection elements and with a vision of implementing a comprehensive energy upgrade project that will provide relief to the economically vulnerable population.
The goal is the energy upgrade of buildings as the main means of dealing with energy poverty.
For Kozani, this project is a part of the general philosophy of achieving Climate Neutrality, a commitment that began with Kozani’s inclusion in the European Mission of 100 Climate Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030.
