Challenges: Low Recycling Rates, lack of Circular economy infrastructure, mindset and behavioral shifts, competitiveness of key Actors, policy Alignment and implementation

Aims: Enable a shift towards circular practices in the plastics value chain across the Danube Region, emphasizing recycling, reuse, and efficient waste management. Improve the competitive edge of plastics producers and machine firms by embracing circularity and technological advancements.

Key objectives: Promotion circular practices in the plastics value chain across the Danube Region, enhance the competitiveness of key actors through circularity and innovation, build capacities for practical implementation, integrate project strategies with regional policies, engage stakeholders for systemic change, demonstrate the benefits of circularity, and develop a comprehensive action Plan for embedding circular economy principles throughout the value chain.

Main outputs: 

• Technology Transfer

• Capacity Building

• Policy Integration

• Stakeholder Engagement

• Demonstration of Benefits

• Transnational Action Plan

Project Partner:

• Business Upper Austria

• Austria Business Service

• Romanian Cluster Association

• Foundation for Innovation, Technology and Knowledge Transfer Bosnia

• Innovation Center, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

• “Petru Poni” Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Romania

• Innoskart Business Development Nomprofit Kft.

• Omnipack First Hungarian Packaging Technology Cluster, HU

• Czech Plastics Cluster z.s.

• Association of Light industry enterprises, Moldova

• Slovak Plastic Cluster

• Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies 

• Tomas Bata University in Zlín

Project Period: 01/2024 - 06/2026