Demand trust for circular building materials [FA] (3C)
Programme 2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B North SeaDescription
Thematic information
Priority: (VI-B_NS_2) Priority 2: A green transition in the North Sea region
Priority specific objective: RSO2.6. Promoting the transition to a circular and resource efficient economy
Priority policy objective (Interreg specific objective): PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility
Type of intervention: 071 Promoting the use of recycled materials as raw materials
Partners (15)
Lead Partner: Provincie Drenthe
Partner’s ID if not PIC: NL 001587924B02
Address: Westerbrink 1, 9405BJ Assen, Netherlands
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Regional public authority
Website (not verified): http://www.provincie-drenthe.nl
Total budget: EUR 620 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 372 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 248 000.00
GBER schemes / de minimis:
- Gemeente Groningen
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Name: Gemeente Groningen
Partner’s ID if not PIC: NL0019.32.809B.01
Address: Gedempte Zuiderdiep 98, 9711HL Groningen, Netherlands
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Local public authority
Website: http://gemeente.groningen.nl
Total budget: EUR 350 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 210 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 140 000.00
GBER schemes / de minimis:
- Hanze University of Applied Sciences
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Name: Hanze University of Applied Sciences
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 803572529B01
Address: Zernikeplein 7, 9747AS Groningen, Netherlands
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: http://www.hanze.nl
Total budget: EUR 267 758.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 160 655.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 107 103.00
GBER schemes / de minimis:
- Vejle Kommune
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Name: Vejle Kommune
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 29189900
Address: Banegårdspladsen 6, 7100 Vejle, Denmark
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Local public authority
Website: http://www.vejle.dk
Total budget: EUR 350 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 210 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 140 000.00
GBER schemes / de minimis:
- Stadt Bremerhaven
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Name: Stadt Bremerhaven
Partner’s ID if not PIC: N.a.
Address: Waldemar-Becké-Platz 5, 27568 Bremerhaven, Germany
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Local public authority
Website: http://www.bremerhaven.de
Total budget: EUR 300 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 180 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 120 000.00
GBER schemes / de minimis:
- Stad Roeselare
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Name: Stad Roeselare
Partner’s ID if not PIC: BE0207.432.520
Address: Botermarkt 2, 8800 Roeselare, Belgium
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Local public authority
Website: http://www.roeselare.be
Total budget: EUR 438 671.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 263 203.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 175 468.00
GBER schemes / de minimis:
- Stad Oostende
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Name: Stad Oostende
Partner’s ID if not PIC: BE0207436775
Address: Vindictivelaan 1, 8400 Ostend, Belgium
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Local public authority
Website: http://www.oostende.be
Total budget: EUR 465 970.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 279 582.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 186 388.00
GBER schemes / de minimis:
- Noordelijk Innovatielab Circulare Economie
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Name: Noordelijk Innovatielab Circulare Economie
Partner’s ID if not PIC: NL8599.30749.B.01
Address: Gasgracht 3, 7941KG Meppel, Netherlands
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Business support organisation
Website (not verified): https://www.wearenice.org/
Total budget: EUR 305 244.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 183 146.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 59.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 122 098.00
GBER schemes / de minimis:
- Linnéuniversitetet
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Name: Linnéuniversitetet
Partner’s ID if not PIC: SE2021006271 01
Address: Lückligs plats 1, 35195 Växjö, Sweden
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: https://lnu.se/
Total budget: EUR 350 847.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 210 508.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 59.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 140 339.00
GBER schemes / de minimis:
- Katholieke Hogeschool Vives Zuid vzw
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Name: Katholieke Hogeschool Vives Zuid vzw
Partner’s ID if not PIC: BE 0455.922.071
Address: Doorniksesteenweg 145, 8500 Kortrijk, Belgium
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: http://www.vives.be
Total budget: EUR 349 300.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 209 580.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 139 720.00
GBER schemes / de minimis:
- Habiter2030
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Name: Habiter2030
Partner’s ID if not PIC: N.a.
Address: 2, rue Verte, 59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Business support organisation
Website: http://www.habiter2030.com
Total budget: EUR 250 300.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 150 180.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 100 120.00
GBER schemes / de minimis:
- GodaHus - energieffektiva och hållbara byggnader i sydost
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Name: GodaHus - energieffektiva och hållbara byggnader i sydost
Partner’s ID if not PIC: SE802448087601
Address: Smedjegatan 37, 35246 VÄXJÖ, Sweden
Legal status: private
Organisation type: Business support organisation
Website: http://godahus.se
Total budget: EUR 298 588.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 179 153.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 119 435.00
GBER schemes / de minimis:
- École nationale Supérieure d'Architecture et de Paysage de Lille
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Name: École nationale Supérieure d'Architecture et de Paysage de Lille
Partner’s ID if not PIC: N.a.
Address: 2, rue Verte, 59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: http://www.lille.archi.fr/
Total budget: EUR 350 200.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 210 120.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 140 080.00
GBER schemes / de minimis:
- CD2E Accélérateur de l’éco-transition
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Name: CD2E Accélérateur de l’éco-transition
Partner’s ID if not PIC: N.a.
Address: Rue de Bourgogne – Base du 11/19, 62750 Loos-en-Gohelle, France
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Business support organisation
Website: https://cd2e.com/
Total budget: EUR 249 258.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 149 555.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 99 703.00
GBER schemes / de minimis:
- Actium
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Name: Actium
Partner’s ID if not PIC: NL 0029 03 118 B01
Address: Portugallaan 10, 9403DS Assen, Netherlands
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Infrastructure and (public) service provider
Website: https://www.actiumwonen.nl/
Total budget: EUR 253 320.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 151 992.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 101 328.00
GBER schemes / de minimis:
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Summary
Project acronym: CTB
Project ID: oDo3XjYBg
Project start date: 2023-11-01
Project end date: 2026-10-31
Project status: ongoing
Relevant mentions and prizes:
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Total budget/expenditure: EUR 5 199 456.00
Total EU funding (amount): EUR 3 119 674.00
Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 60.00%
Co-financing sources:
- ERDF: Amount, EUR 3 119 674.00. Co-financing rate, 60.00%.
Investments, deliverables, policy contributions
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Deliverables:
- Backcasting: skills for the circular building economy / A transnational team analyses which skills are needed now and in the next years by professionals across all parts of the circular building economy.
- Coalition building sessions / Coalitions of the Wiling are developed through local and regional workshops, building on the shared ambition developed through back casting in work package 1. The shared ambition becomes stronger through understanding what stakeholders need to move forward.
- Kick-off / At the kick-off meeting in the Netherlands all CTB partners build a common understanding of how to define circular construction, on which stakeholders are involved locally, and on how to measure progress in the transition towards a circular construction sector.
- Trust Framework Masterclass / Trust Frameworks are an instrument coming from digital development. They are new to construction and circularity. To establish a common understanding an expert will give a masterclass on Trust Frameworks, on how the model was developed for safe data sharing and on how they provide a common set of agreed upon standards, ensuring that all organisations meet the same agreements and allow forgoing additional legal contracts.
- Transition theory masterclass / Circular Trust Building implements the innovative transition theory instruments. To deepen our shared understanding of this theory and its instruments, all partners participate in a masterclass with experts on transition theory.
- Developing on- and offline training for circular building professionals / Training courses teach tangible skills and sensitise building professionals to circular thinking.
- Developing a circular building label toolbox / Labeling of products is essential for circular building, however the current wealth of labels makes it difficult to choose which label to use in supply and demand of products. A transnational team analyses the pro- and con's of different label mixes.
- Matchmaking for Regional Circular Deals / Regional Circular Deals unite deconstruction, design, development, construction, and local authorities around substantial construction or renovation projects. In the Regional Circular Deal all parties involved agree on cooperation to achieve at least 25% reduction of material footprint in their projects
- Backcasting: local preparations / All partners together with their local stakeholders analyse what they need to realise their local goals in circular construction, and in reduction of waste & CO2-emissions. Barriers to circularity plus option to overcome these are analysed.
- Public launching customers: challenging the helix / How do we activate the full potential of local and regional authorities as a launching customer? Building on projects as ProCirc, the 5 public partners develop a strategy to engage all necessary internal stakeholders, provide them with a better understanding of circularity, and develop ways in which authorities can develop and procure circular buildings.
- Workshop: Understanding building professionals / In order to support building professionals from all parts of the (circular) building economy, it is essential to understand these professionals, their motivations, frustrations, dreams and preferred learning strategies.
- Testing the Circular building label toolbox / All partners test the circular building label toolbox. Partners use tools for shared decision making to decide with stakeholders on which mix of labels to use for supply and demand of sustainable building materials. The testing will be monitored and evaluated by the transnational expert team. The outcomes of the tests will feedback into the circular building label toolbox and improves its efficiency and impact.
- Backcasting: stepping up to the transnational level / All partners share their local backcasting analysis in a transnational transition strategy. This strategy provides the framework for transnational learning and cooperation in the work packages 2, 3 and 4.
- WHAT the circular building material economy does when it constructs or renovates / WP1 focused on the WHY and WP2&3 focused on HOW. Building on this WP4 focuses on WHAT. In interactive communication campaigns using a mix of traditional and social media channels partners engage stakeholders in demonstrating the scaled circularity and the resulting (at least) 25% reduction of the material footprint of construction and renovation projects collected in the Regional Circular Deals.
- Awareness about the need for common labels & standards / Scaling circularity is only possible when using common labels, standards and shared knowledge on circularity / material footprint in construction/renovation. Partners will create awareness about this need with stakeholders using traditional offline and social/digital media tools.
- On- and offline training for circular building professionals / Stakeholders throughout the regional circular building value chain ensure the upskilling of their professionals. All partners test the on- and offline training with the own circular building professionals and experts.
- Collecting tools and best practices for educational institutions / Lead by the participating educational and research institutions Circular Trust Building collects tools and best practices that can be used by educational institutions to teach the circular building principles.
- Creating awareness: Why be a frontrunner? / A targeted communication campaign raises the awareness of local/region stakeholders - such as (de-)construction, renovation, maintenance, development, architecture - on the Why of the transition: Why they need to transform their practices for a circular future.
- Digital Building Information Management for sourcing and using circular building materials / Building Information Management systems (BIM) are already common in architecture, engineering and construction. A transnational team will demonstrate how BIM can be used for sourcing and using circular building materials.
- Public launching customers: challenging the helix / Local and regional authorities can act as a launching customer: by developing and or procuring circular buildings they create a critical mass for the transition and provide inspiring demonstrations. To achieve this, the authorities need to share circular insights and solutions with all involved internal stakeholders. Drenthe, Groningen, Roeselare, Bremerhaven and Vejle will implement to test this strategy.
- Matching local policy with EU goals / The CTB transnational expert team analyses EU policies on circularity and on construction, reviews the outcomes of EU-funded innovation projects, connects these with Circular Trust Building and with the partners' local ambitions. The transnational transition strategy enables matching EU goals with local policy, regulations, and support measures.Analysis of how local/regional bottom-up, multi-sectoral, and interdisciplinary action supports EU goals and strategy.
- Digital platforms for supply and demand / A transnational team analyses available digital platforms for supply and demand of circular building materials. Based on the analysis the team adds recommendations on digital supply and demand platforms to the toolbox.
- Develop and test toolboxes for educational institutions / Educational institutions Hanze, Vives, ENSAPL and LNU will jointly develop and test toolboxes to include state of the art circular building skills into their curricula.
- No-regret check: 2050 compatibility / The transnational transition strategy not only calls for forward looking action. It also demands construction sector actors to refrain from actions that endanger or potentially compromise circularity. Transnational development of a no-regret check, assessing compatibility with EU 2050 climate neutrality goal.
- Assessing maturity levels / Partners assess the current circularity skills in their own organisations and with stakeholders. A transnational report on the maturity levels supports the Circular Trust Building upskilling strategy.
- Transnational, digital knowledge base / A transnational, digital knowledge base where insights, best practices, and (organisational, regulatory) frameworks from the community of practice are shared will be set up.
- Developing Trust Framework for Circular Construction / A transnational team translates the Trust Framework model to circular construction/renovation. Implementing the labels and standards, digital platform for supply and demand, and building information management system into a Circular Trust Framework. The Framework enables the implicit trust in small-scale projects to become "scalable" trust. Because each new collaboration between stakeholders is based on the same framework the circular network can grow at an exponential, rather than linear, rate.
- Raising the interest of building professionals' in training & upskilling for circularity / Training and upskilling of professionals are most effective when based on the interest and experience of these professionals. Regional communication actions using traditional offline tools as well as social media create and maintain this interest (and connect to the professional experiences of the target groups).
- Compatibility check / Back casting shows us which actions and developments are needed for the transition towards circularity and the EU goal of a fully circular construction sector in 2050. It therefore also provides a measure to ascertain that actions and developments do not endanger that goal. Applying the transnational developed no regret check, all partners will test and improve how to assess this compatibility and how to act on its outcomes.
- Reaching out to new local stakeholders / The engagement of existing stakeholders is essential to the success of backcasting and the transition to a circular construction sector. The enlarge the impact and accelerate the movement, partners together with stakeholders reach out to new stakeholders through social media and (digital) communication campaigns and invite them to participate, to adopt new solutions and to join in the collective upskilling.
- HOW updated skills are essential for circularity / In a communication campaign using both traditional as well as digital/social media tools CTB partners will demonstrate how updated professional skills are essential for circularity and reduction of material footprint in construction/renovation in order to create and maintain professionals' interest in training & upskilling for circularity.
- HOW labels and Circular Trust Framework are essential for circularity / WP1 created the stakeholder awareness about the WHY of the transition to a circular building material economy. WP2 focused on the necessary skills of the professionals involved. WP3 builds on the awareness and developed skills, and demonstrates the tools: How circularity / material footprint labels plus a Circular Trust Framework scale cooperation. Stakeholders will be reached via an interactive digital/social media campaign
- Mapping + analysing best practices, legal challenges & business cases. / Supported by the transnational expert team, partners map on a regional level their own and their stakeholders' experiences with circular (de-)construction, analyse best practices, legal challenges, and business cases.
- Regional Trust Framework Meetings / In regional meetings the transnational Trust Framework will be adjusted to and implemented in the local situation. Legal aspects and characteristics of the regional (de-)construction sector will be addressed and if necessary included in the Trust Framework.
- Understanding potential supply, demand and current market failure / Workshops with local stakeholders lead to a better understanding of potential supply and demand of circular building materials, and of current market failure. Supported by the transnational expert team partners map the outcomes of these workshops, using the EU taxonomy for circularity.
- Testing Trust Framework for Circular Construction Sector / On regional level the Trust Framework will be tested to enable improvements and to demonstrate how it: Mitigates (first-mover) risks for participants Benefits network cooperation and invites others to join Increases convenience and efficiency, removing the need of much one-on-one contracting The testings will be monitored and evaluated by the transnational expert team.
- WHY transition towards a circular building material economy? / The Circular Trust Building communication and dissemination are based on the Golden Circle: WHY-HOW-WHAT. In WP1 Partners create stakeholder attention and awareness on the WHY of the transition to a circular building material economy. For this, a (digital) awareness campaign will be launched.
Contribution to wider strategies and policies:
- Circular Trust Building contributes to the goals of the European Green Deal in both showcasing the accelerated transition to a circular construction sector and in developing and disseminating the necessary tools. Circular Trust Building also shows how to source circular materials for renovation, and thus acts on the current shortage of materials hampering the EU Renovation Wave.
- Circular Trust Building matches the EU's Circular Economy Action Plan with bottom-up, multi-sectoral and interdisciplinary solutions, which in their turn can be scaled and disseminated EU-wide.
- Circular Trust Building implements the vision of the North Sea Region 2030 Strategy on smart North Sea Region, where circular use of resources and circular economy techniques are widely adopted. With LP Province of Drenthe also providing the chair of the North Sea Commission, Industrial Transition Hotspots will use the full potential of cooperation with and exchange through the commission.
- Circular Trust Building fits EU's Industrial Strategy: achieving industrial transformation and building a more circular economy, through upskilling, innovation and transitioning towards climate neutrality. Circular Trust Building strengthens the Circular Building Material Industrial Ecosystem in line with EU's Industrial Strategy.
Programme Common Output Indicator:
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RCO 084 - Pilot actions developed jointly and implemented in projects, Measurement unit:
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RCO 083 - Strategies and action plans jointly developed, Measurement unit:
Delivered output indicator(s):
- (RCO84) Pilot actions developed jointly and implemented in projects: 756
- (RCO83) Strategies and action plans jointly developed: 256
Programme Common Result Indicator:
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RCR 104 - Solutions taken up or up-scaled by organisations, Measurement unit:
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RCR 079 - Joint strategies and action plans taken up by organisations, Measurement unit:
Delivered result indicator(s):
- (RCR104) Solutions taken up or up-scaled by organisations: 2
- (RCR79) Joint strategies and action plans taken up by organisations: 4
Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project
Financing programme
2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B North Sea
Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme
2025-02-03
No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)
65 / 65 (100%)
No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)
791 / 791 (100%)
Notes on the data