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EUR 80 million of contribution over a budget of over EUR 160 million. With regard
to the nationality of the applicants, Italy and Spain have broken the record for the
number of funded projects. Considering the 2014–2016 triennium, more than 50%
of the projects financed were Italian and Spanish. Focusing on the issue of waste,
582 projects have been revealed during the 1992 and 2019 period. Within these,
approximately 45% of the total selected projects concern recycling, reduction and
use of waste, and more than 20% refer to waste from the industrial sector, from the
C&D sector and the management of dangerous waste.
In the research, in order to monitor and compare the projects regarding crosssectoral exchange of by-products and recyclable scraps between manufacturing sectors and construction sector and to identify possible trends in innovation, a database
that can integrate the basic database, managed by the LIFE programme
10 or others,
has been developed (Fig. 1). The database collects the following information: type
of the project (LIFE, CIP, etc.); code of the project; year of start; country; NACE
code of applicants; type of applicant (public/private research centres, universities,
local/regional authorities, international companies, big companies, SM enterprises,
cooperatives, etc.); type of potential partners involved (development agencies, intergovernmental bodies, international enterprises, large enterprises, local authorities,
mix enterprises, NGO foundations, national authorities, park-reserve authorities,
professional organizations, public enterprises, regional authorities, research institutions, SMEs, training centres and universities); name of the project; type of proposed
innovation (new production process, innovative production process, new product
with recycled content, innovative product with recycled content, services); target
Fig. 1 Main categories of keys adopted for the database: characteristics of the companies involved
(economic sectors), type of waste, type of innovation, type of activity carried out on scraps/waste
10 See: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/project/Projects/index.cfm.
M. Migliore et al.
EUR 80 million of contribution over a budget of over EUR 160 million. With regard
to the nationality of the applicants, Italy and Spain have broken the record for the
number of funded projects. Considering the 2014–2016 triennium, more than 50%
of the projects financed were Italian and Spanish. Focusing on the issue of waste,
582 projects have been revealed during the 1992 and 2019 period. Within these,
approximately 45% of the total selected projects concern recycling, reduction and
use of waste, and more than 20% refer to waste from the industrial sector, from the
C&D sector and the management of dangerous waste.
In the research, in order to monitor and compare the projects regarding crosssectoral exchange of by-products and recyclable scraps between manufacturing sectors and construction sector and to identify possible trends in innovation, a database
that can integrate the basic database, managed by the LIFE programme
10 or others,
has been developed (Fig. 1). The database collects the following information: type
of the project (LIFE, CIP, etc.); code of the project; year of start; country; NACE
code of applicants; type of applicant (public/private research centres, universities,
local/regional authorities, international companies, big companies, SM enterprises,
cooperatives, etc.); type of potential partners involved (development agencies, intergovernmental bodies, international enterprises, large enterprises, local authorities,
mix enterprises, NGO foundations, national authorities, park-reserve authorities,
professional organizations, public enterprises, regional authorities, research institutions, SMEs, training centres and universities); name of the project; type of proposed
innovation (new production process, innovative production process, new product
with recycled content, innovative product with recycled content, services); target
Fig. 1 Main categories of keys adopted for the database: characteristics of the companies involved
(economic sectors), type of waste, type of innovation, type of activity carried out on scraps/waste
10 See: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/project/Projects/index.cfm.