CIRCULAR SYSTEMIC SOLUTION FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM IN EUROPEAN ISLANDS BY MOVABLE PLANT ON A BOAT AND CO-CREATION WITH ISLAND STAKEHOLDERS

Islands are characterized by massive touristic flows concentrated in specific high-season Islands are characterized by massive touristic flows concentrated in specific high-season peaks, temporarily amplifying the local consumption of products and the consequent generation of waste materials.

ReBoat 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.

Three complementary pilots at Eolian, Ioninan and Azores islands, will CoCreate new objects, spaces and experiences through an Island Participatory Approach supported by Collaborative Digital tools, by the Boat technical infrastructure with recycling and reprocessing machineries onboard, and by Artists, working-holidays Students, and Designers who will animate a 2 weeks event in each pilot engaging people.

Newly designed Tourism Packages will empower the engagement and enrich the offering, promoting conscious and sustainable holidays in European Islands. 15 partners from 7 Eu Member States, experts in heterogeneous and complementary sectors will cooperate to demonstrate the feasibility of the 6 innovation pillars and to provide a concrete experience to citizens and tourists that will be made publicly available through training materials, success stories, open access data.

Replicability will be studied with the objective to obtain a concrete exploitation after the project ends.

The project will obtain results in the following innovation pillars: a Boat for local recycling, the digital solutions for the CoCreation and scheduling in exploitation, the new touristic packages and signed agreements, the generation of new circular products to be sold, the engagement of local stakeholders and PAs, and the definition of the final business model.