The role of cities and regions in supporting industrial-urban symbiosis: learning from on the-ground experiences
May
15
The Hubs4Circularity Community of Practice invites you to an online knowledge exchange (sensemaking) workshop to reflect on the role of local and regional public authorities for supporting industrial-urban symbiosis uptake. Join this interactive workshop to discuss the variety of roles and instruments cities and regions can assume, while sharing your own challenges, experiences, learnings and insights in enhancing local industrial-symbiosis activities.
Agenda
10:00 – 10:15 | Welcome remarks and introduction to the Hubs4Circularity Community of Practice
10:15 – 10:25 | Check-in and participant introduction
10:25 – 10:35 | Introduction to workshop methodology
10:35 – 11:50 | Storytelling session
Diverse experiences on supporting Industrial-Urban Symbiosis (I-US) uptake will be shared by public authorities and business:
- OVAM (Belgium)
- Port of Aalborg (Denmark)
- RedEcoEC (Spain)
11:50 – 12:00 | Break
12:00 – 12:40 | Breakout sessions
High level overview: reflections from listening to the stories, zoom out to identify clusters, themes and similarities related to the role of public authorities in supporting industrial-urban symbiosis. Participants will be able to reflect and learn with and from each other.
12:40 – 13:20 | Synthesis and next steps
Based on the information exchanged, participants will be able to conclude on the role(s) public authorities can play to successfully support industrial-urban symbiosis uptake.
13:20 – 13:30 | Check-out and conclusions
