Plastics Revolution for European Regions

Programme 2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-C Interreg Europe

Date of latest update: 2023-08-11

Description

Description (EN):

PLASTIX facilitates industrial transition towards a resource-efficient economy, circular economy growth and eco-innovations in participating regions, and in other European regions. The project tackles the growing problem of plastic waste, its recyclability and its replaceability as a part of the transition towards a more circular economy. All European regions are facing similar plastics challenges: consumption of huge amount of plastics, their recyclability, reusability and replaceability with bio-based raw materials, as well as microplastics are issues that need to be solved. Furthermore, waste plastic also causes climate change. European regions play an important role in responding to the plastics challenges by tailoring their policies and innovation and sustainability investments towards a more sustainable and circular plastic economy and related regional innovation and natural ecosystems. Most European regions are focusing on circular economy in their development policies, and the urgency and high importance, as well as complexity of the circularity and plastics challenge, underline the need and opportunities for interregional exchange. The project is based on and closely contributes to the European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy (2018) and the new EU circular economy action plan (2020). In line with these EU policies, the project focuses on and engages with the whole circular value chain for plastic in the partner regions - from R&D actors and manufacturers to users and recyclers. By identifying good practices and novel solutions through interregional exchange and co-creation, the project aims at helping regional policy makers to improve and create policy mechanisms which facilitate industrial transition towards a resource-efficient economy. As the main result of the project, the addressed regional policy instruments are improved to better - and faster - facilitate the shift towards a society where plastic use is sustainable.

Website: https://www.interregeurope.eu/

Thematic information

Regional planning and development Waste and pollution

Partners (1)

Lead Partner: Suomen Itämeri-instituutti

Address: Tampere, Finland

Legal status: n/a

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Summary

Project name (EN): Plastics Revolution for European Regions

Project acronym: PLASTIX

Project start date: 2023-03-01

Project end date: 2027-05-31

Project status: ongoing

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 693 175.00

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

Financing programme

2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-C Interreg Europe

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

2023-08-10

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

72 / 255 (28.24%)

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

72 / 2 057 (3.5%)

Notes on the data

Source of estimation of the number of projects as of 2025-03-17: Website of the programme

Method for estimating the number of partners as of 2025-03-17: Average partners per project based on the average of the previous period.

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