REFLOW EU Project
Waste/Recycling/Environmental - N/A, N/A, US
REFLOW EU Project Employees
REFLOW EU Project Details
REFLOW is an EU H2020 funded project, from 2019 to 2022, that seeks to understand and transform urban material flows and to co-create and test circular and regenerative solutions at business, governance and citizen levels. The vision of REFLOW is to develop circular and regenerative cities through the relocalisation of production and the reconfiguration of material flows at different scales. More specifically, it will use Fab Labs and makerspaces as catalysts of a systemic change in urban and Peri-urban environments. Concretely, REFLOW aims to provide realistic best practices aligning market and government needs in order to create favorable conditions for the public and private sector to adopt circular principles. To provide critical examples of ways in which cities can adopt a CE model and reach the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, REFLOW will create new CE business models (Distributed Design Market model, On-Demand System, Corporate Hacking and Corporate Pyramid) within 6 pilot cities (Amsterdam, Berlin, Cluj-Napoca, Milan, Paris, Vejle) and assess their social, environmental and economic impact. The project will make use of blockchain technologies to incentivize the circular practices in local ecosystems and create data visualization tools to enable continuous monitoring and optimization of "urban metabolic" processes and rapid intervention management. Networks of sensors, urban computing and Geolocalization will capture data ensuring accuracy, integrity and interoperability of relevant data infrastructures, while data visualization and standard templates will be available for effective communication, public consultation, and exchange of experiences.
REFLOW EU Project Technologies
Load Balancers
Apache
Domain Name Services
Cloudflare DNS
Email Delivery
Rackspace MailGun
Hosting
CloudFlare Hosting
CSS and JavaScript Libraries
Bootstrap Framework