Project Title: Circular Systemic Solution for Sustainable Tourism in European Islands by Movable Plant on a Boat and Co-Creation with Island Stakeholders (ReBoat)
Donor: European Research Executive Agency (REA), European Commission
Coordinator: POLITECNICO DI MILANO (Italy)
Partners: Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) (Greece), European Public Law Organization (EPLO) (Greece), R2M SOLUTION SRL (R2M) (Italy), EDAG ENGINEERING GMBH (EDAG) (Germany), VELTHA IVZW (VELTHA) (Belgium), SYXIS VSI (SYX) (Lithuania), Centro Tessile Cotoniero e Abbigliamento S.p.A. (Centrocot) (Italy), Origoni and Steiner Associated Architects (OS) (Italy), FIBEREUSE TECH S.R.L. (FT) (Italy), Greening the Islands Foundation (GTI) (Malta), COSMOS S.A. (Greece), Ionian Islands Region (IONIAN) (Greece), Eolian Regeneration Association (EOLIAN) (Italy).
Project starting date: 01/01/2025
Project duration: 4 years
Countries: Italy, Greece, Germany, Belgium, Lithuania, Malta
OVERALL OBJECTIVE
ReBoat aims to co-creating an active and conscious island demand for creative solutions for recycling and upcycling waste objects and materials, primarily focusing on plastics and textiles, coming from the local environment. The overall objective of the project is to design, develop and demonstrate a novel decentralized systemic circular solution, exploiting a mobile, modular, sorting, recycling and reprocessing plant on a Boat. The proposed solution will handle waste generation peaks in islands on demand, locally transforming waste into new products that meet the needs of island citizens and tourists. Three complementary pilots -in three European islands, namely Ionian (GR), Eolian (IT) and Azores (PT) (tbc)- will co-create new objects, spaces and experiences through an Island Participatory Approach supported by Collaborative Digital tools, the Boat infrastructure and enhanced by newly designed Tourism Packages offering new enriching, conscious and sustainable holidays to Europeans.
ACTIVITIES
- WP1 Specifications and strategy for tourism uptake of ReBoat
- WP2 Digital tools for community involvement, training and management of operations
- WP3 Design of the flexible and modular mobile sustainable recycling plant
- WP4 Design of new tourism packages and attractions
- WP5 Decentralized pilot demonstration and validation in EU Islands
- WP6 Communication, dissemination, awareness raising
- WP7 ReBoat market exploitation, replicability and training
- WP8 Project Management
- WP9 Ethics requirements
For more information, please visit project website: https://reboat-project.eu/