FAQ
This section provides clear answers to common inquiries about ReBoat’s objectives, activities, and participation opportunities. If you’re looking for details or clarifications, you’ll likely find them here.
What is ReBoat?
ReBoat is an EU funded research project (GA 101182350) that has as a main goal to address island waste surges with a mobile recycling plant on a boat, turning plastics and textiles into new products. It aims at designing, developing and demonstrating a novel decentralized systemic circular solution focused on plastics and textile, exploiting a mobile, modular, sorting, recycling and reprocessing plant on a Boat that will transform local waste into new products, meeting the needs of island citizens, tourists and local artisans and workers. So far, two complementary pilots at Eolian and Ionian islands, will CoCreate new objects, spaces and experiences through an Island Participatory Approach supported by Collaborative Digital tools, the Boat infrastructure and enhanced by newly designed Tourism Packages offering new enriching, conscious and sustainable holidays to Europeans. More pilots are expected to onboard soon so stay tuned!
What are the main objectives of ReBoat?
Main objectives of the project include:
- CoCreation of an active and conscious island demand for creative solutions for the recycling and upcycling of collected waste objects and materials, primarily focusing on plastics and textile, coming from the local environment.
- Activation of the island ecosystem of citizens, tourists, artists, designers, architects, and small-scale producers as artisans’ laboratories, engaged in building together a sustainable and inclusive system.
- Development of a local, flexible and modular decentralised circular systemic solution will be promoted in three European islands.
- Organisation of events around the mobile plant on board of a Boat container.
- Involvement of citizens and tourists to provide needs and challenges, and engagement of artists and designers through novel touristic packages to provide solutions inspired by local art and culture.
- Collection of lessons learnt to define a replication strategy in multiple rural and peripheral eco-systems.
Who funds ReBoat?
ReBoat is a research project funded by the EU (GA 101182350), as an Horizon Innovation Action, under the topic ID HORIZON-CL6-2024-CircBio-01-4.
What is the connection between ReBoat project and the CCRI – Circular Cities and Regions Initiative?
ReBoat is a proud member of the Circular Cities and Regions Initiative (CCRI), an EU-led effort to accelerate the transition to a circular economy at local and regional levels. As part of this community ReBoat aims to benefit from policy guidance, technical assistance, and access to best practices to support the replication of its circular tourism model. It will gain visibility, connect with circular economy pioneers, and access impact assessment tools, boosting its local engagement, policy influence, and long-term scaling across EU regions.