Sharing Best Practice

24 November 2022 14:00-17:00 CETSTUDIO Meetingpoint, Malmö

Do you know how to create value from your company's residual flows?

One company’s residual waste could be another company’s resource. That is the reality at Kalundborg Symbiosis in Denmark where the world´s first industrial symbiosis is thriving with its circular approach to production. Kalundborg Symbiosis is a partnership between public and private companies in Kalundborg to benefit the environment and economy by utilizing every resource in a meaningful way.

We are in the middle of a paradigm shift and collaborations are more important than ever. The exchange of ideas and knowledge sharing is what takes us forward. Learn from our guest speaker Lisbeth Randers, Head of secretariat at Kalundborg Symbiosis who will share her experience from the unique partnership in Denmark.

Join the conversation at our Sharing Best Practice event to collect new perspectives on how to build a more resilient and circular future together. Sharing Best Practice is all about opening doors to how others’ learnings can inspire you to new solutions.

FREE of charge. Upon registration, you should receive a confirmation letter with the event details via e-mail. We will also send you an e-mail reminder before the event.

Moderator

Diego Angelino
Coordinator for International Projects @ TEM/ Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare and CSR Skåne

Diego is responsible for the internasionalisation strategy of the Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare. He has more than 10 years of experience working with development cooperation on topics such as business and development, partnerships for sustainable development, and energy transition.

Lisbeth Randers
Head of secretariat @ Kalundborg Symbiosis

Kalundborg Symbiosis – a best practice example on how a public-private partnership creates surplus for the companies involved, the environment and the local community

20m

In a corner of West Zealand in Denmark lies the city of Kalundborg — and it’s here Kalundborg Symbiosis has shared the surplus of excess resources for more than 50 years through a symbiotic and circular approach to industry and production. 

Here, the city’s large industrial companies work together across sectors to share excess energy, water, and materials, so less goes to waste. 

As public and private companies are physically connected, one company’s surplus of resources adds value to another. Today, more than 20 different streams of excess resources flow between the companies, creating a symbiosis of resource exchange, adding more resilience and profit to the partners.  The Symbiosis model also creates another surplus — the trust and power of innovation within the community. It benefits the people such as employees, students, and researchers and the climate. We are working together to reduce thousands of tons of CO2 emissions each year.

Lisbeth Randers

Lisbeth has a Masters in Arts (MA), a Master in Public Management and is an certified coach. Lisbeth has worked with development within sustainable business solutions and public-private partnerships for many years and has worked for Kalundborg Symbiosis since 2012.

Concentrated innovative strength in the South of Germany

Founded in 2007 in Schwäbisch Hall, Packaging Valley Germany e. V. is the world's most innovative packaging industry cluster. It emerged from a merger of the Packaging Valley Germany and Packaging Excellence Region Stuttgart clusters. It networks over 100 companies with numerous experts from the packaging industry. These include manufacturers of packaging systems and packaging machines, providers of software and automation solutions, manufacturers of components, providers of services related to the packaging industry, and public institutions.

In the presentation we introduce you to the cluster and its focal points and give you an insight into the work of the association Packaging Valley Germany.

Etienne will be presenting together with Christine Fischer

Symbiosis, a driver for sustainable development? A brief reflection and some inspirational examples of how symbiosis development is connected to topics discussed at the COP27

20m

Industrial symbiosis is often described as a process where wastes or by-products from one industry become resources for other industrial processes. But often the effects of symbiotic development reach across sectors and perspectives, from industrial to urban/rural development and developing different types of system innovations in the context where the symbiosis is created.

In this presentation Rickard will reflect and give a few inspirational examples on how industrial symbiosis can create pathways towards sustainable development and discuss what other values besides the reduction of climate emissions symbiotic developments can lead to.

The presentation will be connected to recent and current events within the EU and globally, e.g. the volatile market of natural gas in Europe, the development of a hydrogen infrastructure in the northern parts of Sweden, and the COP27 held in Egypt in November.

Rickard Fornell

Rickard is a senior researcher at RISE working on strategic development of initiatives concerning efficient use of resources and energy in society, with a focus on integrating different system perspectives.

He is currently coordinating work within RISE in the field of symbiosis, among others the EU-project CORALIS and the establishment of a Swedish national resource centre for industrial and urban symbiosis.

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Preliminary Agenda

13:30

Registration

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