Institute of Innovation and Responsible Development
Budget
€592,000
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
6
6 FTE
EU Grants
€45,000
Mission & Goals
The Institute of Innovation and Responsible Development (INNOWO) is a foundation, non-governmental organization, THINK-to-DO TANK established to support the implementation of innovative systemic changes for the purpose of sustainable socio-economic progress. Circular economy as well as healthcare are the main fields of our interest and expertise. The Institute works towards the advancement of circular economy in theory and practice among all stakeholders - consumers, producers and regulators. To this end INNOWO uses its platform - the Polish Circular Hotspot, research publications as well as other numerous measures and events, e.g. Circular Week campaigns. We support the implementation of systemic and technological innovations in healthcare. We assess the current state and identify optimal paths for the development of the industry, pointing to barriers that affect the efficiency of the healthcare system by and large.
EU Legislative Interests
New EU Circular Economy Act Directive to empower consumers for the green transition Critical raw materials act Green claims directive Waste framework directive Regulation on packaging and packaging waste (PPWR) Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) Corporate Social Responsibility Directive (CSRD) Construction products regulation (CPR) EU Taxonomy Directive Right to repair Directive Clean industrial Deal Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act European Climate Law New chemicals industry package Critical Medicines Act European action plan on the cybersecurity of hospitals and healthcare providers European Health Union regulations EU digital laws European Data Union Strategy AI Strategy European Biotech Act Strategy for European Life Sciences STEM Education Strategic Plan Net-Zero Industry Act European Climate Pact Biodiversity strategy Environment action programme European Water Resilience Strategy European Climate Adaptation Plan
Communication Activities
INNOWO engages in numerous communication and research projects aiming for a circular economy transition, therefore these events mention EU legislations in those matters, e.g.: The flagship annual project - Circular Week, that consists of a series of events throughout Europe. They aim to educate the society and businesses in the need for circular transition as well to develop means to advance circularity. We carry out workshops with SMEs on the tools needed for their circular transition as well as provide guidelines for doing so. This is a collaborative project with the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development. We also educate local government on the need for energy transition and their rising role in this process. We offer guidelines and publications on how to achieve greater level of renewables in their energy mix. Innowo engages in work with the build environment in their push towards circularity. We carry out analyses and offer guidelines that are further disseminated on our and partners' events and workshops. National project ‘OTO GOZ” with Polish Ministry of Economic Development which objective is to develop a set of measurement indicators (the so-called circular economy indexes), enabling the assessment of progress in the transformation towards a circular economy (circular economy) and the assessment of the impact of the circular economy on socio-economic development at the mesoeconomic level (regions) and macroeconomic (national economy). Publication from http://www.circularhotspot.pl/userfiles/oto-goz/GOZ-całosc-14-04-2020-b.pdf We run a project about sustainable construction sector and based on various workshops with broad stakeholder groups we are prepared an report „Circular Construction” which was presents at DG GROW of EU Commission. https://www.innowo.org/pl/publikacje-goz/126 With Metabolic foundation INNOWO at the moment is conducting one year ambitious project about resources, material and waste analysis in four Polish cities – Warsaw, Krakow, Gdansk and Lublin. Within the studies we are preparing analysis of policies and city development strategies, material flow analysis, waste management strategies and stakeholders mapping Project about plastics in circular economy https://www.innowo.org/pl/publikacje-goz/201
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
Innowo is a member of Coordinating Group of European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform https://circulareconomy.europa.eu/platform/en Member a nd the engine behind Polish Circular Hotspot http://www.circularhotspot.pl/ Circular Economy expert at Working Group 7 circular economy under National Smart Specialization appointed by the Steering Committee, consisting of representatives of the Polish Ministry of Development, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the Ministry of Funds and Regional Policy. https://smart.gov.pl/pl/ Circular Economy expert at Working Group 3 - sutainable bioproducts under National Smart Specialization appointed by the Steering Committee, consisting of representatives of the Polish Ministry of Development, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the Ministry of Funds and Regional Policy. I Member of expert working group regrading sistemic changes in waste mangement appointed by Ministry of Climate and Environment
Organisation Members
The Innowo Institute is the founder of the Polish Circular Hotspot. Its a platform that gathers stakeholders (businesses, local governments, NGOs, etc.) interested in the advancement of circularity in Poland and beyond. The list of current members is here: http://circularhotspot.pl/pl/firmy; http://circularhotspot.pl/pl/samorzad; http://circularhotspot.pl/pl/organizacje-pozarzadowe. It needs to be underlined that the membership of the platform is free of charge.
Additional Information
There were no intermediaries hired by the Innowo Institute to represent its interests at EU-level
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.