SufalNet4EU for innovation and sustainable growthRene Beijnen, Project Coördinator
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European Union Community
Owners
Landfill operatorsProject
developers
Non Governmental Organisations
Public Authority
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SufalNet(4EU)• SufalNet, INTERREG IIIC • 2005 – 2007, • 21 partners, 12 Member States• Identification good practice in Model Strategy
SufalNet4EU, INTERREG IVC• Capitalisation in Action Plans • 2010 – 2011,• Budget € 2,6 mln• 15 partners, 10 Member States
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Why SufalNet4EU ?• 150.000 landfills covering 300.000 hectares
• No facilities to protect public health and environment
• Removal and clean-up is too expensive
• Redevelopment is more beneficial
• Good practice identified in SufalNet’s Model Strategy
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Risk assesment
Examination
Aftercare
Land use management & financing
Redevelopment
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Existing former landfill
Waste
Contaminants
Source
Pathway
Receptor
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Policies & Legislation
Technical measures
Organization
Financing
Communication
Legal measures
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Potential landfill sites and Redevelopment functions
Decision model redevelopment
Risk assessments
Selection most promising landfills to be redeveloped
Technical data
Administrative data
Financial data
Acceptability of environmental risks
Community acceptance
Acceptability of financial risks
Redevelopment Proposal
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North Foreshore landfill in Belfast, United Kingdom
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Gulbergen estate as a golf course in Nuenen, Netherlands
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Objective SufalNet4eu
• to give to regional and local authorities specific instruments to redevelop closed and abandoned landfills,
• by
• developing Action Plans which will be implemented by making use of Structural Funds available in each participating region.
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Sub objectives
• To translate the Model Strategy into Action Plans and real projects;
• To involve stakeholders at the start of the identification of real projects;
• To have political commitment to ensure implementation of the Action Plans and real projects;
• To promote SufalNet’s Model Strategy and best practices to other regions in the EU by showing successfully implemented case studies
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TIME TABLE
2010
27-28 April
5-6 October 21-22 September15-16 September
8-9 December
2011
March
June
November
Launch Conference (plenary) S’-Hertogenbosch
Working Group Meeting Poznan, Kosice, Ludwigsburg
Coördination Conference (plenary) Lavrio
Working Group Meeting Badajoz, Sicily, Bistrita
Coördination Conference (plenary) Belfast
Final Conference (plenary) Salerno
Identification,selection
Land use planning
Environmental planning
Implementation aspects: legal, social, finances
Draft Action Plan and eligibility EU Structural Funds
Action Plan
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Objectives Communication & Dissimination• Increasing transparency and awareness of EU funds
• EU money is spent to improve neglected area’s for EU-citizens and to save greenfield area
• Helping others to benefit from our good practices • SufalNet’s Model Strategy is a good practice for sustainable use of former
landfills to be used all over Europe
• Creating awareness of our project activities and results• Our good practices will be actually implemented in regional development
programmes and co-financed with EU-money
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Thank you
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