PROSUITE
Development and application of standardized methodology for the PROspective SUstaInability assessment of TEchnologies
| Coordinatore | UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT
Organization address
address: Heidelberglaan 8 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Netherlands [NL] |
| Totale costo | 6˙330˙395 € |
| EC contributo | 4˙782˙196 € |
| Programma | FP7-ENVIRONMENT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Environment (including Climate Change) |
| Code Call | FP7-ENV-2008-1 |
| Funding Scheme | CP-IP |
| Anno di inizio | 2009 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2009-11-01 - 2013-10-31 |
Partecipanti
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT
Organization address
address: Heidelberglaan 8 contact info |
NL (UTRECHT) | coordinator | 784˙385.00 |
| 2 |
DIALOGIK GEMEINNUETZIGE GESELLSCHAFT FUER KOMMUNIKATIONS- UND KOOPERATIONSFORSCHUNG mbH
Organization address
city: STUTTGART contact info |
DE (STUTTGART) | participant | 397˙776.00 |
| 3 |
EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZURICH
Organization address
address: Raemistrasse 101 contact info |
CH (ZUERICH) | participant | 388˙816.00 |
| 4 |
NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGEUNIVERSITET NTNU
Organization address
address: HOGSKOLERINGEN 1 contact info |
NO (TRONDHEIM) | participant | 387˙841.00 |
| 5 |
DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET
Organization address
address: Anker Engelundsvej 1, Building 101A contact info |
DK (KONGENS LYNGBY) | participant | 386˙250.00 |
| 6 |
GREENDELTA GMBH
Organization address
address: MUELLERSTRASSE 135 contact info |
DE (BERLIN) | participant | 338˙865.00 |
| 7 |
STICHTING KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT
Organization address
address: GEERT GROOTEPLEIN NOORD 9 contact info |
NL (NIJMEGEN) | participant | 310˙579.00 |
| 8 |
INTERNATIONALES INSTITUT FUER ANGEWANDTE SYSTEMANALYSE
Organization address
address: Schlossplatz 1 contact info |
AT (LAXENBURG) | participant | 286˙525.00 |
| 9 |
UNIVERSITEIT GENT
Organization address
address: SINT PIETERSNIEUWSTRAAT 25 contact info |
BE (GENT) | participant | 241˙136.00 |
| 10 |
UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA
Organization address
address: Campus UAB -BELLATERRA- s/n contact info |
ES (CERDANYOLA DEL VALLES) | participant | 204˙250.00 |
| 11 |
INSTITUT SYMLOG
Organization address
address: RUE SAINT JACQUES 262 contact info |
FR (PARIS) | participant | 194˙130.00 |
| 12 |
SUOMEN YMPARISTOKESKUS
Organization address
address: Mechelininkatu 34a contact info |
FI (HELSINKI) | participant | 186˙941.00 |
| 13 |
PRE CONSULTANTS BV
Organization address
address: PRINTERWEG 18 contact info |
NL (AMERSFOORT) | participant | 186˙089.00 |
| 14 |
FUNDACAO DA FACULDADE DE CIENCIAS E TECNOLOGIA DA UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA.
Organization address
address: "Campus de Caparica, Quinta da Torre S/N" contact info |
PT (CAPARICA) | participant | 176˙800.00 |
| 15 |
MAGYAR TUDOMANYOS AKADEMIA SZOCIOLOGIAI KUTATOINTEZET
Organization address
address: URI UTCA 49 contact info |
HU (BUDAPEST) | participant | 170˙300.00 |
| 16 |
PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUT
Organization address
address: Villigen contact info |
CH (VILLIGEN PSI) | participant | 75˙202.00 |
| 17 |
ORGANIC WASTE SYSTEMS NV
Organization address
address: DOK NOORD 5 contact info |
BE (GENT) | participant | 27˙341.00 |
| 18 |
FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS
Organization address
address: N PLASTIRA STR 100 contact info |
EL (HERAKLION) | participant | 21˙942.00 |
| 19 |
HEIQ MATERIALS AG
Organization address
address: ZUERCHERSTRASSE 42 contact info |
CH (BAD ZURZACH) | participant | 17˙028.00 |
| 20 |
DSM RESINS BV
Organization address
address: CEINTUURBAAN 5 contact info |
NL (ZWOLLE) | participant | 0.00 |
| 21 |
HYBRID PLASTICS
Organization address
address: WL RUNNELS INDUSTRIAL DRIVE 55 contact info |
US (HATTIESBURG) | participant | 0.00 |
| 22 |
MAGYAR TUDOMANYOS AKADEMIA TARSADALOMTUDOMANYI KUTATOKOZPONT
Organization address
address: ORSZAGHAZ U 30 contact info |
HU (BUDAPEST) | participant | 0.00 |
| 23 |
NOKIA OYJ
Organization address
address: KEILALAHDENTIE 4 contact info |
FI (ESPOO) | participant | 0.00 |
| 24 |
SOLVAY SA
Organization address
address: RUE DE RANSBEEK 310 contact info |
BE (BRUXELLES) | participant | 0.00 |
| 25 |
SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB
Organization address
address: NYA VATTENTORNET contact info |
SE (LUND) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'The main goal of PROSUITE is to develop a framework methodology, operational methods and tools for the sustainability assessment of current and future technologies over their life cycle, applicable to different stages of maturity. The project will apply the methodology for four technology cases with close consultation of the stakeholders involved, which includes cases from biorefineries, nanotechnology, information technologies, and carbon storage and sequestration. PROSUITE will show (i) how to combine technology forecasting methods with life cycle approaches, and (ii) how to develop and possibly combine the economic, environmental and social sustainability dimensions in a standardized, comprehensive, and broadly accepted way. PROSUITE will create a solid research basis for technology characterization, including the identification of decisive technology features, basic engineering modules for estimations of material flows and energy use, and learning curves. For the economic assessment, methods for the assessment for economic and sectoral impacts of novel technologies will be developed and combined with background data for scenario-based life-cycle inventory modelling. For the environmental assessment, state-of-the-art environment indicators will be proposed together with targeted method development for the assessment of geographically explicit land and water use impacts, metal toxicity and outdoor nanoparticle exposure. For the social assessment, a set of quantitative and qualitative social indicators will be selected via participatory approaches, setting the standard for future assessments. The use of various multicriteria assessment methods will be explored to aggegrate across indicators. The methods developed will be part of a decision support system, which will be output as open source modular software.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
There is a need for new methods that can measure, analyse and assess new technologies that takes into account all activities and their effects on the economy, environment and society. An EU-funded project developed an integrated technique for sustainability assessment of new technologies.
Descrizione progetto (Article)
As Europe strives to meet its 2020 growth strategy goals, there is growing recognition of the need for more formalised methods of assessing technology development. Present methods consider environmental, economic and social aspects separately, but an integrated assessment system is needed.
The EU-funded http://www.prosuite.org (PROSUITE) project developed a standardised, comprehensive approach for assessing the economic, environmental and social performance of new technologies. It considered technologies over their whole life cycles.
Project members adapted concepts developed for environmental life-cycle assessment (LCA) into a new approach uniting five major impacts on human health, social well-being, prosperity, natural environment and exhaustible resources. The hybrid LCA model allows economic assessment of the full-scale adoption of a technology.
A decision-support system was created to assess the economic, environmental and social aspects of technologies while ensuring they can be widely used for performing sustainability assessments. The standardised cost estimation for new technologies (SCENT) tool was finalised and incorporated into this ready-to-use software platform.
PROSUITE's assessment methods include recommendations for environmental assessment, plus 15 social indicators covering four main impact categories: safety, security and tranquillity; autonomy; participation and influence; and equal opportunities.
Project partners delivered actual sustainability estimates for four emerging technology cases on biorefineries, nanotechnology, mobile devices and carbon sequestration. All involved innovative processes, had potential for large-scale implementation, and led to value-added products or services.
The project organised 15 workshops, and the final conference was attended by European policymakers, industrial actors, consultants and academics who were introduced to PROSUITE's novel framework and tools. In addition, over 50 articles have been published or submitted to scientific journals.
PROSUITE provided the needed methods and tools for complete sustainability assessment of today's and tomorrow's technologies. Companies, governments and society should be able to better assess the sustainability of products, services or technologies.