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?
Traditionally, outdated houses with excessive renovation costs are taken out of rent and sold on the public market. There, scarcity drives up housing prices quite a bit. This does not make it easy for single people or families with limited financial resources to acquire their own homes. And if they do succeed, they often do not have the means to renovate the house sustainably.
With the UP project, Cordium wants to change this. We will look for new legal and financial solutions to sell outdated social housing affordable to the target group. In doing so, we focus on ensuring that, firstly, they are renovated in an energetic and change-oriented way, secondly, they can be sustainably maintained and repaired and thirdly, they retain their social housing function, several cycles in a row.
Once the legal and financial bottlenecks are resolved, our long-term goal is to effectively renovate the 32 houses from this pilot project in a circular way and transfer them to the intended target group. The concept may then find applications outside social housing to offer families the opportunity to acquire a sustainable and circular home.
Cordium
Partners Onesto Kredietmaatschappij, PAQT, Advocaten BELCARE
Sectors
Themes
Organisations
Through this project, solutions were sought and found. Legal difficulties were raised with policymakers and cleared. During the various presentations and discussions, the explicit interest of various parties also became clear.
We are now making every effort to realise a scalable project and effectively upcycle the 32 homes on offer according to the elaborated principle. We are looking for the necessary support and resources to test out this project in reality, thus showing the market that the elaborated model is a great added value.