Carbon Smart Communities

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Alpine Space

Date of latest update: 2023-08-11

Description

Description (EN):

Increasing material flows along processing chains in timber industry considerably contribute to climate change. However, there is a great but unexploited potential for reduction of CO2-emissions. The project makes these potentials accessible to decision makers and actors. Based on proved innovative cross border working assessment and monitoring tools, HVH developed and provides to the project for testing in the AS, it intially visualizes the impact of low carbon material flows in timber products on the climate (integrated carbon footprint system). It develops and establishes policy guidelines in participating communities (bundled by the different partners) and provides decision makers with steering instruments to actively trigger climate friendly timber products. Through the project an important but unregarded sustainability aspect will be considered in public construction and procurement. Legal opinions from experts of EU and communal law as well as first activities from public bodies in D to implement the existing tools into procurement indicates the feasibility of the approach. Current lacks of specific informations among decision makers will be filled up. The implementation of developed policies starts within the project duration in several communities and public bodies via partners or observers. To support the setting up and exchange between low carbon model areas an innovative smart places network will be established. By using new communication technologies it extends the sphere of influence of such places by order of magnitude. Strategies and instruments for low carbon and resource saving products and processes are a paneuropean issue but need to be developed in a transnational approach to get results which are applicable across borders and avoid insulated solutions to reach a broad european acceptance in politics and market. The project provides a technical innovation, as no such trans national instruments are in place up to now.

Achievements (EN):

Unfortunately, the processing chains in the timber industry considerably contribute to climate change, due to high CO2-emissions. The CaSCo project exploited the potential for the reduction of CO2-emissions in the timber industry: it visualized the impact of low carbon material flows of timber products on the climate, developed and established policy guidelines and provided decision makers with steering instruments to actively trigger climate friendly timber products. By doing so, the project could highlight the so far disregarded sustainability aspect in public construction and procurement. Public bodies, in selected pilot areas, implemented the established tools for their procurement strategy and could thereby prove the feasibility and success of the approach.

Website: http://www.alpine-space.eu/

Expected Results (EN): Level of Implementation of low carbon policy instruments

Expected Outputs (EN):

1) developed political framework for integrating low carbon timber products in procurement of public bodies. 2) implementation of those policies in various communities in the programme region. 3) improved trans national operating framework and support tools for low carbon policies (documentation, assessment, steering and monitoring of low carbon timber). 4) empowered SME value chains and improved deliverance of low carbon timber to meet the raised public demands.

Thematic information

New products and services Climate change and biodiversity

Specific Objective: Establish trans-nationally integrated low carbon policy instruments

Thematic Objective: (04) supporting the shift towards a low-carbon economy in all sectors by:

Investment Priority: (04e) promoting low-carbon strategies for all types of territories, in particular for urban areas, including the promotion of sustainable multimodal urban mobility and mitigation-relevant adaptation measures

Partners (11)

Lead Partner: BSC, Poslovo podpormi center d.o.o., Kranj

Department: n/a

Address: Cesta Staneta Žagarja 37, 4000 Kranj, Slovenia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.bsc-kranj.si

Total budget: EUR 333 440.00

ERDF budget: EUR 283 424.00

Agenzia Regionale per la protezione dell’Ambiente del Piemonte

Name: Agenzia Regionale per la protezione dell’Ambiente del Piemonte

Department: Functional Administrative Department Environmental promotion team

Address: Via Pio VII, 9, 10135 Torino, Italy

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.arpa.piemonte.gov.it

Total budget: EUR 131 387.50

ERDF budget: EUR 111 679.38

Parco Scientifico Tecnologico Per L'Ambiente

Name: Parco Scientifico Tecnologico Per L'Ambiente

Address: Via Livorno 60, 10144 Torino, Italy

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.envipark.com/

Total budget: EUR 242 207.55

ERDF budget: EUR 205 876.42

Regionalentwicklung Vorarlberg eGen

Name: Regionalentwicklung Vorarlberg eGen

Department: n/a

Address: Hof 19, 6861 Alberschwende, Austria

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.regio-v.at

Total budget: EUR 268 878.00

ERDF budget: EUR 228 546.30

Holz von Hier gemeinnützige GmbH

Name: Holz von Hier gemeinnützige GmbH

Department: -

Address: Neuenreuth 24, 95473 Creußen, Germany

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.holz-von-hier.de

Total budget: EUR 317 818.75

ERDF budget: EUR 270 145.94

IG Kraftspendedörfer Joglland

Name: IG Kraftspendedörfer Joglland

Department: not relevant.

Address: Strallegg 100, 8192 Strallegg, Austria

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.kraftspendedoerfer.at

Total budget: EUR 187 035.50

ERDF budget: EUR 158 980.18

Razvojna agencija Sinergija

Name: Razvojna agencija Sinergija

Address: Moravske Toplice, Kranjceva ul. 3, 9226 Moravske Toplice, Slovenia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.ra-sinergija.si

Total budget: EUR 130 845.00

ERDF budget: EUR 111 218.25

E-zavod

Name: E-zavod

Department: n/a

Address: Čučkova 5, 2250 Ptuj, Slovenia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.ezavod.si

Total budget: EUR 165 100.00

ERDF budget: EUR 140 335.00

UNIONE MONTANA DEI COMUNI DELLA VALSESIA

Name: UNIONE MONTANA DEI COMUNI DELLA VALSESIA

Department: Agriculture Territory Environment Department

Address: Corso Roma 35, 13019 Varallo Sesia, Italy

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.unionemontanavalsesia.it

Total budget: EUR 128 900.00

ERDF budget: EUR 109 565.00

Klima-Bündnis der europäischen Städte mit indigenen Völkern der Regenwälder | Alianza del Clima e.V.

Name: Klima-Bündnis der europäischen Städte mit indigenen Völkern der Regenwälder | Alianza del Clima e.V.

Department: Climate Change mitigation and adaptation

Address: Galvanistraße 28, 60486 Frankfurt a. Main, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.climatealliance.org

Total budget: EUR 127 339.00

ERDF budget: EUR 108 238.15

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Énergie-Environnement

Name: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Énergie-Environnement

Address: rue Gabriel Péri 18, 69100 Villeurbanne, France

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.raee.org

Total budget: EUR 258 236.09

ERDF budget: EUR 219 500.68

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Summary

Project name (EN): Carbon Smart Communities

Project acronym: CaSCo

Project start date: 2016-11-01

Project end date: 2020-04-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 291 187.39

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 947 509.28

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 85.00%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 1 947 509.28.

Documents

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Reports

Environmental product label - a comparison

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://www.alpine-space.eu/

Publication date: 2022-09-17

Document date: 2018-05-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Construction Or Renovation - Contracts Incorporating Low Carbon Timber

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://www.alpine-space.eu/

Publication date: 2022-09-17

Document date: 2018-06-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Alpine Space

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-08-11

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

64 / 64 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

752 / 752 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.alpine-space.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2022-11-20 and 2024-03-11.

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Carbon Smart Communities

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Partners (11)

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