CIRCUIT

The CIRCUIT project will implement innovative governance mechanisms, participatory methodologies, digital tools, evaluation frameworks and upscaling activities to enable industrial sites and urban regions to transition towards sustainable, circular and climate-neutral ecosystems. It leverages advanced digital technologies, i.e. interoperable dataspaces, participatory digital twins, real-time monitoring systems and simulation models, to support planning, engage stakeholders and enable evidence-based decision-making, designed for replicability and scalability across diverse local contexts and governance structures. It also bridges behavioural and institutional gaps through capacity-building programmes, communication strategies and collaborative learning environments that support local actors in adopting circular and climate-conscious practices.

CERTH (through ITI) is the project coordinator, responsible for the overall management and coordination of CIRCUIT (WP1, Task 1.1). It leads WP3 “Data-driven services for interoperability and decision making” and develops the project’s dataspaces (Task 3.1) for energy, resource and e-governance management in industrial sites and their surrounding cities. In addition, it designs the platform’s reference architecture (Task 2.4) and coordinates the deployment and configuration of solutions at the pilot sites (Task 5.2).

Consortium

Ethniko Kentro Erevnas kai Technologikis Anaptyxis (CERTH), Greece (Coordinator)
University of Thessaly (UTH), Greece
Netcompany S.A. (NCIT), Luxembourg
Zentrum für Soziale Innovation GmbH (ZSI), Austria
MTÜ Australo Alpha Lab (AUS), Estonia
Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC), Belgium
IDETA (Agence Intercommunale de Développement), Belgium
Fundo Regional da Ciência e Tecnologia (FRCT), Portugal
Município de Lagoa – Açores (LAGOA), Portugal
Simbiente Açores – Engenharia e Gestão Ambiental, Lda. (SIMB), Portugal
Teknologian Tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy (VTT), Finland
Espoon kaupunki – City of Espoo, Finland
Spolia Design Oy, Finland
Lotus Demolition Oy, Finland
SRV Rakennus Oy, Finland
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB (RISE), Sweden
Umeå Energi AB (UEAB), Sweden
Umeå Kommun, Sweden
Umeå Universitet, Sweden
Fundación para la Promoción de la Innovación, Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico en la Industria de Automoción de Galicia (CTAG), Spain
Universidad de Vigo (UVIGO), Spain
Consorcio de la Zona Franca de Vigo (ZFV), Spain
Fundación Rede de Innovación Arousa (RIA), Spain
Comune di Prato, Italy
Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland
Fingal County Council, Ireland
Mestna občina Maribor (MOM), Slovenia
Univerza v Mariboru (UMAR), Slovenia
Javno podjetje Nigrad, komunalno podjetje d.o.o. (NIGRAD), Slovenia
Regional Development Fund of Western Macedonia (RDFWM), Greece
University of Western Macedonia (UOWM), Greece
STAM Srl, Italy