Systemic large scale eco-innovation to advance circular economy and mineral recovery from organic waste in Europe
Updated on 21.06.2024
SYSTEMIC project aims to demonstrate promising new technologies to support a circular economy, which can efficiently recover and recycle nutrients from biomass waste for use in new products, such as organic fertilisers and soil conditioners. Five large-scale biogas plants were set up in four Member States where knowledge was exchanged on optimising technology and product development, cost efficiency and overcoming operational, regulatory and institutional hurdles.
Relevance for Circular Systemic Solutions
This project offers valuable deliverables for any city or region interested in 'closing the nutrient circle', whether it is technical reports such as Environmental Impact Analysis, which can help during the Design phase of CSS deployment, or reports on the regulatory framework, which can help during the Map phase. Moreover, the 'business development package' is full of practical information to help achieve replicability with its NUTRICAS tool and KPIs, rendering it useful for the Implement phase of CSS deployment.
Main results and lessons learnt
The project produced a number of relevant and useful outputs, including:
- D 1.1 Technical scheme and specification of the demonstration installation (2017)
- D 1.13 Final document on product charateristics, lab results and field trials (revised 2022)
- D 1.15 Full report on environmental impact assessment of recovered products (revised 2022)
- D 2.2 SYSTEMIC Business Case Evaluation Report (revised 2021)
- D 2.4 Final report on the development and application of economic key performance indicators (KPIs) (revised 2020)
- D 2.6 Final report on LCA analysis and sustinability indicators of products (revised 2020)
- D 2.7 Report on business model development and application to five demonstration plants (2021)
- D 3.2 Final report with scenario’s and schemes of proven NRR techniques (revised 2021)
- D 3.4 Market research in Europe (revised 2021)
- D 3.5 Digestate processing cascades for SYSTEMIC project Nutrient Recovery and Reuse (NRR) tool (revised 2021)
- D 3.6 Business development package including manual and guiding materials (2021)
- D 4.11 Policy brief on boosting mineral recovery in the EU and transition into a circular economy (2021)
- D 4.12 Final project document defining a roadmap on systemic innovation at the EU level (2022)
These and more can be found on: https://systemicproject.eu/downloads/#toggle-id-2
Horizon programme and topic
Programme:
- H2020-EU.3.5. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Climate action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials
Topic:
- CIRC-01-2016-2017 - Systemic, eco-innovative approaches for the circular economy: large-scale demonstration projects
Responsible organisation and contact details
Project consortium partners
- STICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH
- AMPOWER
- GROOT ZEVERT VERGISTING BV
- ACQUA & SOLE SRL
- RIKA BIOFUEL DEVELOPMENTS LTD
- GNS GESELLSCHAFT FUR NACHHALTIGE STOFFNUTZUNG MBH
- A-TUOTTAJAT OY
- ICL FERTILIZERS EUROPE CV
- NIJHUIS WATER TECHNOLOGY BV
- PROMAN MANAGEMENT GMBH
- UNIVERSITEIT GENT
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO
- VLAAMS COORDINATIECENTRUM MESTVERWERKING
- EUROPEAN BIOGAS ASSOCIATION AISBL
- THE RURAL INVESTMENT SUPPORT FOR EUROPE FOUNDATION
CEAP2 key product value chain
CEAP2 key product value chain
CEAP2 key product value chain
including bio-based economy
e.g. chemicals, cosmetics, bio-based industries
e.g. electrical engineering, furniture and interior, textile and fashion
<5 000
large 500 000-200 000, medium 200 000-50 000, and small cities 50 000-5 000
large metropolitan area >1.5 million, metropolitan area 1.5 million-500 000
predominantly urban regions, intermediate and predominantly rural regions, refer to TERCET typology NUTS 3 region
e.g. commercial, residential, service, industrial