The second edition of the RISERS Insights Brief is now available, bringing together the latest developments, findings, and activities from across the project.
This issue highlights key progress in the development of the Industrial Symbiosis Standardisation Roadmap, which is currently open for stakeholder consultation. The roadmap identifies priority areas where standardisation can help overcome barriers to industrial symbiosis and support the transition towards a more resource-efficient and circular European economy. The roadmap covers both cross-cutting themes—such as terminology, End-of-Waste, digitalisation and data—and sector-specific priorities including steel, batteries, packaging, waste heat, textiles, biomass, and energy data.
The Brief also presents insights from RISERS’ ongoing work on mapping research and innovation needs for industrial symbiosis standardisation, outlines the project’s mid-term policy recommendations, and shares updates on stakeholder engagement activities. Readers can also discover perspectives from RISERS experts discussing the role of standards in enabling industrial symbiosis at scale and supporting Europe’s circular economy ambitions.
As Europe seeks to reduce resource dependency, strengthen industrial resilience, and accelerate circularity, standardisation has a crucial role to play in creating the common frameworks needed for industrial symbiosis to flourish. The latest Insights Brief explores how RISERS is contributing to this objective through evidence-based recommendations, stakeholder collaboration, and roadmap development.
