Research Network in Climate, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials (RECREATE)

Research Network in Climate, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials (RECREATE)

Project
Research Program: FP 7
Duration: Jul 2013 - Jun 2018

The Research Network in Climate, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials (RECREATE) will assess the impacts of research and innovation in Europe and beyond, as well as derive an outlook and recommendations for future research priorities in the fields of climate, resource efficiency and raw materials, in particular for the Horizon 2020 research programme.

In a five-year long process, the network will analyse the various impacts of research and innovation activities, monitor new developments, and recommend future research priorities in the three areas of climate, resource efficiency and raw materials.

The research will be very user-centred and stakeholder-oriented. Interviews, workshops, and publications are designed to reach and represent the opinions of a broad range of stakeholders, including representatives from the industry, academia, civil society organisations, research funding agencies and policymakers.

Ecologic Institute will support various tasks in the project and leads the activities related to publishing relevant and targeted policy briefs on the impacts of research, innovation and future priorities, as well as a scoreboard measuring the implementation of the European Research Area.

In order to ensure that the results are relevant for the target audience, the work will be based on stakeholder interviews, which will lead to the development of a set of personas that represent key stakeholder groups, identify their information needs and preferences. The results of the stakeholder analysis will be valuable for the entire project development and will be updated throughout the project.

Contact

Katriona McGlade

Fellow

RECREATE Green Horizons Scoreboard – Instructional Video

Year 2018

Publication:Policy Brief

This policy brief explores and explains the concept and rational of co-creation, both as a general concept as well as in the specific context of sustainability science. Furthermore, it takes a detailed look at its use and potential in the framework of European research & innovation funding. On this basis, it identifies a number of lessons learned with regard to the application of the concept and puts forward concrete policy recommendations. The RECREATE policy brief, written by Ecologic Institute's Dr. Martin Hirschnitz-Garbers, is available for download.

Co-creation in Sustainability Science

Challenges and potential ways forward in implementing co-creation in European research and innovation funding

Year 2018

Publication:Report

This summary pocket book presents key recommendations gathered in the project RECREATE regarding future research and innovation needs in "Societal Challenge 5: Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials". The results include very concrete recommendations on selected topics, overarching recommendations which shall help integrating the different research areas better and recommendations regarding the use of various methodologies. The summary pocket book is available for download.

EU's Future R&I Needs in the Fields of 'Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials'

Recommendations from the RECREATE project

Year 2018

Publication:Web Application

The RECREATE Green Horizons Scoreboard is a website that presents relevant indicators for tackling societal challenges in the areas of climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials. The Scoreboard provides indicators on ten different Environmental Innovation Systems, or fields of knowledge, that are of high relevance to the areas of climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials.

RECREATE Green Horizons Scoreboard

Year 2018

Publication:Policy Brief

Ecologic Institute co-authored the RECREATE policy brief no. 7 on challenges and opportunities for national waste prevention programs. The authors state that the political framework needs to be more enabling and with further support for research and development targeted at measuring waste prevention and behavior change to unlock the potential of waste prevention. The RECREATE policy brief is available for download.

Stepping up Waste Prevention

Challenges and Opportunities for National Waste Prevention Programmes

Year 2017

Publication:Policy Brief

Policy Brief no.3 examines the case of using Climate information Services to increase urban resilience, learning from the Danish experience with Cloudburst management. It is based on one of the detailed narratives carried out for the RECREATE project. The policy brief is available for download.

Climate Information Services for Urban Resilience

Learning from the Danish experience with cloudburst management

Year 2016

Publication:Report

The RECREATE consortium developed fourteen evidence-based narratives covering the three DG Research and Innovation flagship objectives that were presented to the European Commission in March 2015. On the basis of those narratives, the RECREATE consortium has been asked to deepen the investigation concerning selected narratives. The present deliverable represents the output of this request.

Evidence-Based Narratives – part 2

Triangulation of Selected Narratives

Year 2015

Publication:Policy Brief

The solar services sector sells the service of providing the use of solar electricity to its customer instead of selling solar PV systems (the product). This new business model can be seen as a radical innovation for the solar sector – as it is in other sectors. It is particularly interesting from the perspective of systemic eco-innovation fostering a carbon-free and circular economy. The policy brief is available for download.

Selling Solar Services as a Contribution to a Circular Economy

Year 2015

Presentation:Speech

On 18 November 2015, McKenna Davis, Fellow at Ecologic Institute, gave a presentation at the European Conference on Biodiversity and Climate Change on Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems. The biennial conference, organized by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) and the European Network of Heads of Nature Conservation Agencies (ENCA), focused on "Nature-based solutions to climate change in urban areas and their rural surroundings: Linkages between science, policy and practice." The presentation slides are available for download.

Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems – complementing grey with green for improved adaptation

18 October 2015
McKenna Davis

Funding: European Commission, Directorate-General Research & Innovation (DG Research & Innovation), International
Partner: Joint Institute for Innovation Policy (JIIP), Belgium

ArcelorMittal Maizières Research, Global R&D Maizières (Global R&D Maizières), France

Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Germany

The European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic), Belgium

Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark

Ecologic Institute, Germany

European Industrial Research Management Association (EIRMA), Belgium

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany

PNO Consultants (PNO), Belgium

SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden (SP), Sweden

Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Spain

Netherlands Organisation for applied scientific research (TNO), Netherlands

Trinomics, Netherlands

Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), Finland

Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy (Wuppertal Institute), Germany

University College London (UCL), United Kingdom
Team: Max Grünig

Dr. Martin Hirschnitz-Garbers

Katriona McGlade

Melanie Kemper

Ina Krüger

Christian Bruhn

Lena Donat, LLM

Stefanie Wurm

Christian Hudson

Mira Wenzel

Adam Pearson
Duration: Jul 2013 - Jun 2018
Project ID: 2723
Keywords: Climate

Digitalization

EU

Evaluation

Resource Conservation + Circular Economy

Horizon 2020, research, innovation, European Research Area, EU, climate, resource efficiency, raw materials

Europe

Further Links

PublicationReportEU's Future R&I Needs in the Fields of 'Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials'

This 'summary pocket book' presents key recommendations gathered in the RECREATE project (‘REsearch network for forward-looking activities and assessment of research and innovation prospects in the fields of Climate, Resource Efficiency and raw mATErials’) regarding... Read more

Langsdorf, Susanne; Stelljes, Nico; Hirschnitz-Garbers, Martin. 2018. EU's future R&I needs in the fields of 'climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials'. RECREATE Summary Pocket Booklet.

PublicationPolicy BriefClimate Information Services for Urban Resilience

RECREATE Policy Brief Nr. 3

Policy Brief no.3 examines the case of using Climate information Services to increase urban resilience, learning from the Danish experience with Cloudburst management. It is based on one of the detailed narratives carried out for the RECREATE project. The policy brief... Read more

Hirschnitz-Garbers, Martin and Martin Drews (2016). Climate Information Services for urban resilience. Learning from the Danish experience with cloudburst management. RECREATE Project Policy Brief No. 3.

PublicationPolicy BriefSelling Solar Services as a Contribution to a Circular Economy

The solar services sector sells the service of providing the use of solar electricity to its customer instead of selling solar PV systems (the product). This new business model can be seen as a radical innovation for the solar sector – as it is in other sectors. It is... Read more

Svatikova, K., I. Artola, S. Slingerland and S. Fischer (2015). Selling Solar Services as a Contribution to a Circular Economy. RECREATE Project Policy Brief No. 1.

PublicationPolicy BriefCoastal Protection and Suds – Nature-based Solutions

Recreate Policy Brief No. 4

The RECREATE Policy Brief no.4 examines the case of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in two different application areas: (1) coastal protection and (2) urban drainage systems. It is based on one of the detailed narratives carried out for the RECREATE project. The RECREATE... Read more

Davis, McKenna; Ina Krüger; Mandy Hinzmann 2015: Coastal Protection and Suds – Nature-based Solutions. RECREATE Project Policy Brief No. 4.

PublicationPolicy BriefProducing Bio-Ethanol from Residues and Wastes

Recreate Policy Brief Nr. 2

Waste-based bio-ethanol has the potential to both fight climate change and reduce land competition. However, in order to unlock its potential, support for research and development, as well as an enabling political framework, are needed. In this policy brief, Ecologic... Read more

Hirschnitz-Garbers, M. and J. Gosens (2015). Producing bio-ethanol from residues and wastes - A technology with enormous potential in need of further research and development. RECREATE Project Policy Brief No. 2.

PublicationReportEvidence-Based Narratives – part 2

The RECREATE consortium developed fourteen evidence-based narratives covering the three DG Research and Innovation flagship objectives that were presented to the European Commission in March 2015. On the basis of those narratives, the RECREATE consortium has been asked... Read more

Susanne Fischer, Jorrit Gosens, Ina Krüger et.al. 2015: Evidence-Based Narratives – part 2. Triangulation of Selected Narratives. RECREATE deliverable 4.7.a.

PublicationReportEvidence-Based Narratives

This document contains evidence‐based narratives within the area of "Nature‐Based Solutions". The material found herein has been compiled on request of the Directorate‐General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) with reference to the project RECREATE. Data were... Read more

Davis, McKenna; Holger Gerdes; Sandra Naumann et.al. 2015: Evidence-Based Narratives. Nature-Based Solutions. RECREATE deliverable 4.2.

Horizont 2020

Adaptation
Agriculture
Arctic
Biodiversity
Bioeconomy
Cities
Climate
Climate Foreign Policy
Coastal + Marine
Communication
Consumer Policy
Culture + Ecology
Digitalization
EU
Economics
Education
Energy
Environmental Law – Ecologic Legal
Evaluation
Events
Finance
Food
Foreign Policy
Governance
Health
Indicators
Industry
International Development
Land Use
Mobility
Nature-based Solutions and Green Infrastructure
Plastics
Public Diplomacy
Resource Conservation + Circular Economy
Trade
Water