Circular City Ports - Workbook 1, Circular initiatives in the Delta
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4 Greenbizz Brussels<br />
38<br />
Location<br />
Scale<br />
Tag<br />
A cluster of green, susta<strong>in</strong>able and environmental<br />
economic sectors<br />
<strong>City</strong><br />
Company<br />
Research &<br />
development<br />
Emancipation<br />
delta<br />
2007-2013 ERDF<br />
Fund<br />
company<br />
h<strong>in</strong>terland<br />
Counselor<br />
Lawyer, webdesigner,<br />
recruitment etc<br />
<strong>in</strong>dustrial port<br />
GREENBIZZ<br />
Start-up<br />
city port<br />
Brussels-Capital<br />
Region<br />
Incubator or<br />
Facilitator<br />
Expert<br />
city<br />
flow of goods flow of knowledge or <strong>in</strong>fluence <strong>in</strong>dustrial symbiosis o<strong>the</strong>r<br />
What’s happen<strong>in</strong>g? How does it happen?<br />
The Greenbizz <strong>in</strong>cubator offers, <strong>in</strong>side its massive<br />
structure of 8,000m² host<strong>in</strong>g different units for rent,<br />
personalized and free support for <strong>the</strong> companies<br />
it hosts and which wish to develop <strong>in</strong>novative projects<br />
related to <strong>the</strong> environment, eco-construction<br />
or <strong>the</strong> susta<strong>in</strong>able and circular economy sectors. In<br />
addition to production workshops, companies benefit<br />
from many services <strong>in</strong>cluded <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir rental: reception<br />
service, meet<strong>in</strong>g rooms, kitchens, collective<br />
vegetable garden, bicycle park<strong>in</strong>g with showers,<br />
charg<strong>in</strong>g stations for electric cars, next to a whole<br />
bunch of services (legal advice, web design, recruitment<br />
assistance, <strong>in</strong>terim, graphic design...).<br />
Why is this an <strong>in</strong>terest<strong>in</strong>g circular <strong>in</strong>itiative for<br />
circular ports?<br />
Because it offers space and facilities for test<strong>in</strong>g new<br />
susta<strong>in</strong>able projects, this attracts new k<strong>in</strong>ds of entrepreneurs<br />
that can foster new synergies and symbiosis<br />
between port and city.
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