Social Space for Smart Regions

Karel Charvat1, Tony Kubicek2, Simon Leitgeb3, Petr Horak4, Sarka Horakova4

1Czech Centre for Science and Society (CCSS), 2Lesprojekt – sluzby, 3WirelessInfo, 4Club of Ossiach (CoO)

Europe has a huge potential to optimize the supply of biomass to innovative biological processes and products. The project Enabling (Enhance New Approaches in BioBased Local Innovation Networks for Growth - www.enabling-project.com) is one of the research activities dealing with this area within Horizon 2020. The project aims to share best practices and innovations in finding biomass resources and subsequent processing within the Bio-Based Industry.

The intention of the ENABLING project is to create suitable conditions for the efficient use of surplus and waste biomass for innovative products and processes, especially for its use outside energy purposes. The ENABLING project involves 16 partners from 13 EU countries and associated countries (IL, NO). As a part of the project, the partners are building a permanent platform for mediating innovation, which could in the future become one of the main markets and a major accelerator of knowledge transfer at European level.

One of the main tools within the Enabling platform is the Atlas of Best Practices, an application for sharing information and good practices in biowaste management (https://www.enabling-project.com/platforms, www.atlasbestpractices.com).

The Best Practices Atlas is designed to present the collected best practices of BBP (Bio based Products and Processes) from Europe and beyond, which are fully or partially transferable to other regions or serve as inspiration for partners in the value chain. The interactive web-based tool will easily provide information on identified best practices. The Atlas makes it easy to manage and update individual examples. Each individual example of good practice can be shared through its own URI, which allows easy reference to individual examples within social networks and other forms of promotion and publication. The structure has been designed so that examples of good practice from other areas can be developed and published in the future.

The Best Practice Atlas application serves as a part of PoliRural DIH, as well as other upcoming Digital Innovation Hubs.