Description :
Expected Outcome:
Project results are expected to contribute to all the following outcomes:
- Widespread and shared understanding of circular economic principles with a harmonised approach across the full life-cycle value chain of road transport and beyond;
- Increased Europe’s resource sovereignty, lower the environmental footprint, and strengthen the competitiveness of the European automotive-full life-cycle value chain;
- Definition of requirements and boundaries for a European circular economy eco-system in the automotive sector also towards possible definitions of future standards;
- Increased development and adoption of product passports and digital twins, further optimising reuse and remanufacturing of all possible components, systems and sub-systems and vehicle recycling;
- A roadmap for highly visible and focused European Pilot Projects (lighthouses) is developed that drives the industrial transformation towards circularity at an accelerated speed in the European automotive-full life-cycle value chain.
Scope:
Proposals are expected to address all the following aspects, focussing on end-of-life strategies:
- Identify stakeholders and industrial sectors and implement all needed measures for a direct involvement:
- Support full life-cycle value chain stakeholder communities from European to regional levels;
- Map ongoing projects and remanufacturing processes and analyse existing industrial strategies and roadmaps within the automotive value chain;
- Design and implement a strong stakeholders’ engagement process.
- Analyse the full life-cycle value chain eco-system, identify bottlenecks, gaps, and hurdles for transformation towards a circular automotive industry;
- Support the implementation and awareness of AI-based tools and processes for open and closed material, systems and component loops that can significantly increase the end-of-life value, the re-useability and re-cyclability “by design” of all vehicle components and materials also in other industrial sectors;
- Assess the economic, environmental and societal impact of a future circular automotive industry (e.g., business cases and investments, contribution to the environmental footprint and the Green Deal objectives, job creation, competitiveness…), and analyse possible viable business models along the full life-cycle value chain (9R principles), within a circular automotive industry;
- Support the conceptualisation of a possible future European Pilot Project (lighthouse) “Recycling Factory of the Future” including viable business models, also analysing the spillovers to other sectors, and outlining a pathway towards its possible implementation with all relevant stakeholders of the full life-cycle value chain;
- Define and develop possible future product passports and digital twins.
