We organise our actions in six thematic & strategic agendas:
Strategic Agendas:
Bio-economy
Circular Construction
Chemicals/Plastics
Manufacturing Industry
Food Chain
Water Cycles
Seven leverages provide additional support:
Leverage effects:
Lever Policy Instruments
Lever Circular Procurement
Lever Communication
Lever Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Lever Financing
Lever Jobs & Skills
Lever Research
What, why and how?
Why are we pursuing a circular economy?
Future visions 2050
How do we see our circular future?
About our management
Who steers what at Flanders Circular?
Many festivals take place during the summer period. During these events, thousands of festivalgoers and accompanying personnel use a lot of mains water and drinking water in PET bottles, and a lot of waste water is created.
Experience shows that festival organisers of small and medium-sized festivals have little insight into their water flows and water management. At the same time, organisers are increasingly keen to profile themselves as sustainable festivals.
That is why the creative minds of Dranouter Festival, Ghent University, Vlakwa, BOSAQ and Tuincreatie Wouter Igodt have set up the Water Vision @ fEstivals (WAVE) project. The goal of this project is to get a better view on the water management of festivals and how we can organise this more sustainably.
Specifically, we want to map the entire water cycle of the medium-sized Dranouter festival. In doing so, we focus on 6 objectives: conducting a sustainability scan, mapping the water management, implementing a more sustainable waste water management, optimising the spatial layout for a more efficient water supply and discharge, a pilot project for the recovery of raw materials and drinking water from urine, and an investigation into alternatives for PET bottles and disposable cups.
With this project, we also hope to set an example and have a direct positive, sustainable influence on the behaviour of festival-goers and other festival organisers.
Folkfestival Dranouter
Partners Universiteit Gent, Tuincreatie Wouter Igodt, BOSAQ, Vlaams Kenniscentrum Water (Vlakwa)
Sectors
Themes
Organisations
The WAVE project was a great success, testing and demonstrating various innovative and disruptive initiatives on decentralised wastewater treatment, drinking water purification and nutrient recovery in a short period of time. Moreover, the findings were shared to the maximum extent with both festival visitors and organisers, as well as the press.
Based on our findings during this project, we were able to put forward a whole series of sustainable recommendations that should make Dranouter Festival even more sustainable in the future; some of them are mentioned above.