BioRADAR

The BioRADAR project aims to help organisations, policy-makers and investors have the necessary information to step towards a more sustainable bio-based economic model with an information and self-assessment platform for bio-based industries.

This project develops indicators and digital monitoring tools that will enable policymakers and investors to gauge the environmental and social impact of bio-based industrial systems. BIORADAR’s outputs will also help incorporate circularity into bio-based supply chains as a design criterion and facilitate the transition from linear fossil-based to circular bio-based systems.

Frameworks and metrics formulated under BIORADAR will make it possible to assess carbon emissions and indirect land use change risks of bio-based systems. The project will also explore climate change mitigation opportunities for entire supply chains and develop frameworks for social impact assessments.

The main aim of BIORADAR is to develop a comprehensive monitoring system to assess the circularity and the environmental and social impact of bio-based industrial systems. This will be achieved by reaching the following goals:

• assessment of the environmental impact, indirect land use change risks and carbon emissions of bio-based industrial systems
• identification of opportunities for circularity, the definition of circularity indicators and the development of a circularity assessment framework for bio-based industrial systems
• economic assessment of climate change mitigation strategies in bio-based industrial systems
• definition of social impact indicators and evaluation of trade-offs and synergies between economic and social objectives
• development of a digital monitoring system to evaluate trade-offs between and interconnectivity of all circularity, environmental and social impacts and to serve as a decision-making tool for all relevant stakeholders
• upscaling and replicating the tools, benchmarking and provision of policy recommendations

Partner

• Yaghma B.V. (Coordinator),
• CETENMA, 
• IRIS Technology Solutions S.L.,
• Next Technology Tecnotessile Societa Nazionale di Recerca R.L.,
• Kneia S.L.,
• UNI – Ente Italiano di Normazione