The SURFACE project brought together 10 partners from Central Europe (AUT, BEL, CZE, DEU, HUN, ITA, PL, SLO) with the aim to set up Multi-Stakeholder based Smart Re-Use parks as a possible solution for increasing sustainability in selected functional urban areas. The involved regions benefitted from the transnational cooperation through know-how-exchange and learning from best practice examples. This knowledge exchange was especially addressed with the regularly held Multi-Stakeholder-Fora and the Twinning Learning Journeys.
Project outputs and results
• 2 Action Plans and Strategies for the 9 involved Functional Urban Area
• 5 Tools and Services for establishing urban re-used oriented roadmaps and Smart Re-Use Parks.
- SRP-Activation Toolbox: A set of open source documents and tools to help start a Smart Re-use Park
• 5 Smart Re-use Parks (SRP) in IT, AT, DE, PL, HU including two digital platforms
• 4 Feasibility studies were carried out for future SRP in IT, CZ, SI, HR
• 18 regions and cities in total were working on the set-up of SRP: The impact of the project increased twofold through the ‘Twinning scheme’ where each partner region engaged a ‘twin’ partner interested in replicating the SRP
• 366 people were trained in the course of the Multistakeholder Forum on Urban Waste Prevention Plans, the SRP training schemes and activation tools trainings
• 9 implemented Twinning plans and trainings
• 5 Twinning Learning Journeys with personal and virtual site visits at the SRPs and thematic workshops were performed
Other highlights of the project
• Project final infographics: What are SRP and what impact was achieved?
• YouTube Channel: Collection of video stories of re-use from CE and beyond
• Implementation of the Re-use Box in many countries
• Open source final Conference materials
• Cooperation continues: The consortium committed to keep supporting each other and boost re-use even after the project end through regular online multistakeholder forums every 6 months
The results helped to improve environmental management and quality of life of the involved FUAs in the CE programme area through reducing waste streams, creating jobs, offering new trainings and boosting boosting investments, creating a set of tools for harmonized and evidence based decision making setting in the field of waste prevention and re-use.
RESULTS
SURFACE is on YouTube
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These are our last published videos
Recycle is Silver, Reuse is Gold
What Surface motto recalls in Italian street people
Vicenza SRP Virtual Tour
Due to Covid-19 emergency SURFACE Twinning partners have met online for a virtual journey of Vicenza SRP
Online Twinning meeting in Vicenza
On 22nd of April the 4th Twinning Learning Journey of the Interreg CE project SURFACE took place as an online webinar. Cooperativa Sociale Insieme gave a detailed insight into the Smart Re-Use Park (SRP) Vicenza, which was installed as a pilot action within the SURFACE project.
IURS inspirational video
Let inspire your city to start own reuse project. This video was made thanks to SURFACE project supported by the Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE
CPU - FUA Ljubljana
With reuse to a healthy environment
PoR SURFACE STORY #2
ReedoLab a very special second hand and repair store in Rimini - Italy
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25/06/2019 - SURFACE Newsletter # 1 - June 2019
13/11/2019 - SURFACE Newsletter # 2 - October 2019
19/12/2019 - SURFACE Newsletter # 3 - December 2019
27/01/2020 - SURFACE Newsletter # 4 - January 2020
11/03/2020 - SURFACE Newsletter # 5 - March 2020
06/04/2020 - SURFACE Newsletter # 6 - April 2020
07/05/2020 - SURFACE Newsletter # 7 - May 2020
12/06/2020 - SURFACE Newsletter # 8 - June 2020
23/06/2020 - SURFACE Newsletter # 9 Extra issue - June 2020
SURFACE has 10 partners from 8 central European countries
Plus 1 partner from a country outside Central Europe
RREUSE - Reuse and Recycling European Union Social Enterprises - BELGIUM - www.rreuse.org
City of Graz Department of Environmental Protection -
AUSTRIA
Municipality of Ljubljana -
Slovenia
municipality of vicenza -
italy
city of kempten -
germany
Europa Kujaw i Pomorza Association -
Poland
Humana nova Zagreb, Social cooperative -
croatia
City of Zagreb -
CROATIA
Association of municipalities in catchment Basin Stonavka -
Czech Republic
City of brno -
Czech Republic
FKF Nonprofit Zrt. -
hungary
TOTAL BUDGET (M)
PARTNERS
COUNTRIES
TIME IN YEARS
01.07.2017
30.06.2020