The Hubs4Circularity Community of Practice invites you to an online collective sensemaking workshop to discuss and reflect on the various funding and financing approaches relevant to the industrial-urban symbiosis community.  

Securing financial support for industrial-urban symbiosis (I-US) initiatives can often prove challenging.

In this “sensemaking” workshop, participants will discuss various approaches on I-US funding and financing, and they will share their challenges, experiences, learnings and insights.

The basis for discussion will be concrete case studies presented by different types of organizations (e.g. public authorities, business, I-US facilitators, financiers) and, through interactive sessions, the audience will discuss and identify best practices for successfully raising funding and financing for their own initiatives.

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Agenda (all times CET):

10:00 – 10:15 | Welcome remarks and introduction to the Hubs4Circularity Community of Practice | DOWNLOAD THE PRESENTATION

10:15 – 10:25 | Check-in and participant introduction 

10:25 – 10:35 | Introduction to workshop methodology | DOWNLOAD THE PRESENTATION

10:35 – 11:50 | Storytelling session 

Industrial-urban symbiosis project funding and financing experiences will be shared by a range of organisations: 

11:50 – 12:00 | Break 

12:00 – 12:40 | Breakout sessions

Reflections from listening to the stories, zoom out to identify clusters, themes and similarities in the processes of funding and financing industrial-urban symbiosis projects. Participants will be able to reflect and learn with and from each other. 

12:40 – 13:20 | Synthesis and next steps 

Based on the information exchanged, participants will be able to identify best practices for successfully raising funding and financing for their own initiatives.    

13:20 – 13:30 | Check-out and conclusions