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Industrial symbiosis represents a collaborative approach in which different industries exchange materials, energy, water, or by-products to create mutual benefits. By leveraging interconnected systems, industrial symbiosis enhances resource efficiency, reduces waste, and lowers environmental impacts. This process is central to advancing sustainability goals, supporting climate resilience, and accelerating the transition to a circular economy. More information on industrial symbiosis can be found here.

For large-scale application and implementation of solutions to foster industrial symbiosis, standardized frameworks and practices are essential. Unlocking the potential of industrial symbioses will lead to harmonizing methodologies, fostering trust and innovation to optimize resource use, and drive industrial transformation across Europe.

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The Industrial Symbiosis Standardization Roadmap emerged from the project “RISERS - A Roadmap for Industrial Symbiosis Standardisation for Efficient Resource Sharing” (http://risers-project.eu), launched under the European Union’s Horizon Europe Programme. The organisation of the roadmap is led by CEN and CENELEC together with DIN.

The The comprehensive roadmap is intended aims to drive and guide standardization on the standardisation of industrial symbiosis in Europe. It will be developed in collaboration with a network of experts and practitioners from different various sectors.

ThereforeTo achieve this, the roadmap addresses focuses on the following goals:

• Identification identification of challenges and opportunities for industrial symbiosis.
• Address addressing gaps in existing standards and policy frameworks.
• Develop developing actionable recommendations ( for whom) for fostering resource efficiency (target audience to be specified).

The roadmap focuses on highlights key areas and cross-cutting issues which shape , shaping several working groups presented outlined in Figure 1. While the working these groups are have been initially defined, they will remain flexible and subject to refinement during adaptable following the kick-off meeting to ensure alignment with stakeholder priorities.

Figure 2 shows presents the Working Groups activities timeline of the project.