14 new projects receive RE:Source funding
Six demonstration projects and eight research and innovation projects are now starting within RE:Source. A total of SEK 57.3 million has been granted in call funds, which is more than the approximately SEK 35 million that was planned.
– This year’s applications have been really, really good! Therefore, we have chosen to use next year’s call budget already this year, which means that we can grant more projects funds already in 2024, says Camilla Alfredsson, Chairman of the Board of RE:Source.
The funded projects span many sectors and different types of materials and products, such as plastics, batteries, food, construction, textiles and slag. They deal with design, service innovation, business models, digitalization, reuse, recycling and scaling up circularity.
Circular transition
– It’s always exciting for us to start up and get to know all the new projects, but above all it’s important for Sweden because it means further initiatives will get underway and can help accelerate Swedish competitiveness through the circular transition, says Klas Cullbrand, RE:Source call manager.
In total, almost 300 projects have now been launched under RE:Source since the program started in 2016.
– It is gratifying to see how the quality and content of the project applications have improved since the start of the program. It gives hope that material use, together with climate neutrality, is on many people’s agenda, says Camilla Alfredsson, Chair of the RE:Source Board.
Projects awarded funding in the 2024 Call
- Circularity for industrial electrical machines
- Circular nutrient flows for local food production
- Circular slag use: From waste to environmentally friendly resource in ferrochrome industry slag management
- Demonstration of cost-effective climate mitigation with recycled building materials
- DREVBONI – Innovative technology for critical materials recycling and pollution control in lithium-ion battery gigafactories
- Fibres recovered from mixed textiles without their depolymerization and degradation
- From waste to plastics – circular economy reusing CO2, nitrogen, phosphorus and water for bioplastics in a sustainable society
- Intelligent sorting system for optimal recycling of end-of-life tires
- Can I please get that battery with a BIF? An extended battery data passport enabling improved reuse, recycling and recovery of light vehicle batteries
- Resource-smart upcycling fish processing side streams as part of a circular economy (UP-SIDE)
- Scalable circularity and service innovation: for profitable circular models in the textile industry
- Small-scale aquaculture with energy-smart solutions for resource-efficient food production (SmartRAS)
- TexScale – Driving systemic change in textile recycling by scaling up
- Recyclable flexible printed plastic packaging
You can find all RE:Source projects in our project database.
