Madaster | Towards a circular economy: Eliminate waste through an open platform that facilitates material passports

Summary
Our planet is a closed system with finite resources. The current economic system is strongly based on consuming and discarding these materials and products. Combined with the growing population and strong economic growth this leads to a rapid depletion of the earth’s valuable resources while creating huge amounts of waste. To overcome this, it is essential to change our current linear economy and move towards a sustainable circular economy in which resources are reused and recycled while eliminating the production of waste.

Many circular initiatives have failed to create sustainable material cycles due to a lack of usable information on material contents. This information is of utmost importance to allow re-use and recycling of materials and thus, to maintain the material’s value. Consequently, this will result in the thoughtful deconstruction of products, maintaining their valuable materials and subsequent re-use or recycling, minimizing waste.

To facilitate this highly needed information exchange and to facilitate the vital transition towards a circular economy, Madaster Services BV and Winvision BV have developed the disruptive Madaster ICT Platform which, for the first time, is able to precisely document and store material-related information of products. This innovative solution specifically focusses on the construction sector with the strong ambition to eliminate waste.

The following project objectives are defined:
1. Produce Material Passports of construction objects in an operational setting;
2. Develop protocols for data extraction and integration of resource-related information of construction;
3. Create an open-standard IT infrastructure to enhance interoperability with other systems that will make use of the resource-related information of construction objects in the database;
4. Develop a clearly defined business strategy for the Madaster Platform, the Material Passport and data services
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Web resources: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/779024
Start date: 01-05-2017
End date: 30-04-2019
Total budget - Public funding: 3 539 089,16 Euro - 2 477 362,00 Euro
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Our planet is a closed system with finite resources. The current economic system is strongly based on consuming and discarding these materials and products. Combined with the growing population and strong economic growth this leads to a rapid depletion of the earth’s valuable resources while creating huge amounts of waste. To overcome this, it is essential to change our current linear economy and move towards a sustainable circular economy in which resources are reused and recycled while eliminating the production of waste.

Many circular initiatives have failed to create sustainable material cycles due to a lack of usable information on material contents. This information is of utmost importance to allow re-use and recycling of materials and thus, to maintain the material’s value. Consequently, this will result in the thoughtful deconstruction of products, maintaining their valuable materials and subsequent re-use or recycling, minimizing waste.

To facilitate this highly needed information exchange and to facilitate the vital transition towards a circular economy, Madaster Services BV and Winvision BV have developed the disruptive Madaster ICT Platform which, for the first time, is able to precisely document and store material-related information of products. This innovative solution specifically focusses on the construction sector with the strong ambition to eliminate waste.

The following project objectives are defined:
1. Produce Material Passports of construction objects in an operational setting;
2. Develop protocols for data extraction and integration of resource-related information of construction;
3. Create an open-standard IT infrastructure to enhance interoperability with other systems that will make use of the resource-related information of construction objects in the database;
4. Develop a clearly defined business strategy for the Madaster Platform, the Material Passport and data services

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CLOSED

Call topic

SMEInst-01-2016-2017

Update Date

27-10-2022
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Horizon 2020
H2020-EU.2. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP
H2020-EU.2.1. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
H2020-EU.2.1.1. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
H2020-EU.2.1.1.0. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - ICT - Cross-cutting calls
H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017
SMEInst-01-2016-2017 Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme
H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017
SMEInst-01-2016-2017 Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme
H2020-EU.2.3. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
H2020-EU.2.3.1. Mainstreaming SME support, especially through a dedicated instrument
H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017
SMEInst-01-2016-2017 Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme
H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017
SMEInst-01-2016-2017 Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme