STAR-ProBio
Sustainability Transition Assessment and Research of Bio-based Products
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Financing program
H2020 - Horizon 2020
STAR-ProBio constitutes a multidisciplinary and multi-actor collaborative project that will meet environmental, social and economic challenges, paving the way for a much-needed sustainability transition towards a bio-based economy.
The overall objective of the project is to promote a more efficient and harmonized policy regulation framework, needed to promote the market-pull of bio-based products. This will be achieved by developing a fit-for-purpose sustainability scheme, including standards, labels and certifications for bio-based products. To this aim, an integral part of STAR-ProBio will be the adoption of life-cycle methodologies to assess the roll-out of bio-based products. Environmental assessment will be performed, through LCA, in a circular economy framework (with a focus on end-of-life analysis) looking at issues which emerge upstream and downstream the value chain. This will be complemented by a techno-economic assessment and by a social impact assessment conducted through stakeholder analysis, SLCA, surveys and field experiments. Indirect land use change issues (ILUC) will also be addressed from an environmental, economic and social perspective. Moreover, the analysis of selected case studies on (1) construction materials, (2) bio-based polymers, and (3) fine chemicals, will ensure that the approach is not too broad and theoretic, allowing the benchmarking against non bio-based products.
Hence, STAR-ProBio will integrate scientific and engineering approaches with social sciences and humanities-based approaches in order to formulate guidelines for a common framework promoting the development of regulations and standards to support the adoption of business innovation models in the bio-based products sector.
Project start date
01/05/2017
Project end date
30/04/2020
Duration (months)
36
Internal structures
CENTRO INTERDIPARTIMENTALE DI RICERCA PER LE SCIENZE AMBIENTALI - CIRSA
DIPARTIMENTO DI FISICA E ASTRONOMIA "AUGUSTO RIGHI"
Coordinator
Università Telematica "UNITELMA Sapienza"
Partner:
AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Università di Bologna
ChemProf Doradztwo Chemiczne sc Maciej Góra i Michał Łuczyński
DEUTSCHES BIOMASSEFORSCHUNGSZENTRUM GEMEINNUETZIGE GMBH - DBFZ
EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL CITIZENS ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION-ORGANANISATION EUROPEENNE ENVIRONNEMENTALE CITOYENNE DE NORMALISATION AISBL
NATURVARDSVERKET
NOVAMONT SPA
QUANTIS SARL
SQ Consult B.V.
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN
UNIVERSIDADE DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
UNIVERSITY OF YORK
UNIWERSYTET WARMINSKO MAZURSKI W OLSZTYNIE
agroVet GmbH
Global contribution required from the entire partnership
€ 4.983.871,5
Contribution requested by the University
€ 309.988,75