Acronym
EPOS
Code
41J09115
Duration
01 October 2015 → 30 September 2019
Funding
European funding: framework programme, Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Strategic management
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Engineering and technology
- Energy generation, conversion and storage engineering not elsewehere classified
- Other mechanical and manufacturing engineering not elsewhere classified
- Other materials engineering not elswhere classified
Keywords
industrial symbiosis
energy & resource efficiency
cluster management
Project description
With the aim of reinforcing competitiveness in the EU industry, EPOS aspires to create cross-sectorial knowledge and collaboration by developing an innovative Industrial Symbiosis toolbox. The project generates cross-sector understanding, demonstrates technological and organisational cluster options and introduces a management system for making business and site operations more efficient, more cost-effective, more competitive and more sustainable across process sectors.
Role of Ghent University
Next to the EPOS project management, the PhD research at UGent aims to investigate and integrate non-technical methods and know-how on industrial symbiosis in business and district clusters with existing tools for resource and energy optimisation into an integrated management platform for sustainable cross-sectorial industrial symbiosis.