Arts and Sciences & Center for Energy,
Environment and Economy
SymNet: Industrial Symbiosis Network for Environment Protection
and Sustainable Development in Black Sea Basin
ABSTRACT
The main goal in SymNet is to establish an industrial symbiosis system and minimize environmental degradation by taking
into account the effects of climate change while maximizing economic cooperation and sustainable development in the Black
Sea Basin.
SymNet Project looks closer into the current status of the manufacturing, logistics, tourism and energy industries and the
existing commercial networks in the Black Sea Basin as well as the dynamics of these four sectors in the participating
countries. Data collected from Romania, Turkey, Bulgaria and Moldova is fed into Black Sea Industrial Symbiosis Platform
(BSISP) established in the framework SymNet project. BSISP aims to provide communication as well as cooperation
platform for the companies of the Black Sea Region, all supported by a database of the companies in the region. There are
3 special tools of BSISP, namely GIS mapping, trade optimisation tool and carbon footprint tool. Each member company
of BSISP is free to use these tools for its own benefit. BSISP is a not for profit organisation and participation to BSISP and
using the tools of the platform is free for the period of 2011-2013.
Another target is to optimize the collected data by incorporating environmental impacts and sustainability to see how trade
in the Black Sea region can be increased by minimizing environmental as well as climate change impacts. To reach this
target an industrial sybiosis strategy in the foru sectors is developed and the relevant strategy book published. Pınar Özuyar
is the IPA Coordinator leading the Turkish partners as well as responsible for the development of the symbiosis strategy
and BSISP and its tools. Following the completion of the project, Pınar Özuyar acts as the co-coordinator of BSISP.
Partners: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, CEEE-Ozyegin University, Romanian National Institute for Marine Research and
Development, Academy of Science of Moldova, Istanbul’s EU Pioneers Association.
http://www.projectsymnet.eu; http://www.bsisp.org
Dr.
Pınar Gökçin Özuyar
DEPARTMENT
Center for Energy,
Environment and Economy,
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
CONTACT
[email protected]
FUNDING SCHEME
EU-Black Sea 2007-2013
Joint Operational Programme
2011 International Grants
START DATE
12.07.2011
DURATION
24 months
OZU BUDGET
265.816,00 EUR
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