1. SPIRE Context and Guidance for Project Kick-Off Meetings
Sustainable Process Industries through Resource & Energy Efficiency
SPIRE Context and Guidance for New Projects

2. SPIRE Context and Guidance for New Projects
Overview
What is the SPIRE PPP? (inc membership)
The SPIRE Roadmap to Impact
Measuring, Managing and Monitoring Impact
The Family of SPIRE Projects
A.SPIRE Communication Resources
The SPIRE Website
Guidance for SPIRE Projects
Project Output Summaries
SPIRE Network Groups
Integrating Sustainability into SPIRE Projects
Exploitation Planning
Upcoming SPIRE Events
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3. SPIRE Public Private Partnership
SPIRE is a contractual Public-Private Partnership between European Commission & A.SPIRE supporting Research & Innovation for EU Process Industries:
There are over 150 organisation members of A.SPIRE (representing industry, research, and industry associations). Although all SPIRE calls are open to all under H2020 rules, members of A.SPIRE have additional opportunities to discuss priorities, propose call topics and benefit from dedicated networking and brokerage opportunities.
For further information on the membership and governance, see
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4. SPIRE Context and Guidance for New Projects
The SPIRE Roadmap 2030
The SPIRE Roadmap 2030 describes paths and actions to achieve Sustainable Process Industries through:
(Re)invent feedstock (waste, bio, CO2)
Reduce emissions; (re)invent energy & resource management concepts, incl. industrial symbiosis
Introduce digital technologies for better monitoring and control
(Re)invent materials for optimised processes
(Re)invent processes & materials with a significantly increased impact on resource & energy efficiency down the value chain: transport, housing
Reduce waste & (re)invent technologies for valorisation of waste streams within and across sectors
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5. SPIRE Context and Guidance for New Projects
SPIRE Goals
SPIRE aims at integrating, demonstrating and validating systems and technologies capable of achieving three key resource and energy efficiency targets across all SPIRE sectors by 2030:
a reduction in fossil energy intensity of up to 30%
a reduction of up to 20% in non-renewable, primary raw material intensity
efficiency improvement in CO2-equivalent of up to 40%
How will your project impact upon these goals?
SPIRE have also proposed a 2050 vision for Horizon Europe, which includes much more ambitious CO2 and near-zero landfill targets:
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6. SPIRE Roadmap 2050 in the context of Horizon Europe
SPIRE’s vision on how to achieve transformation in Process Industry by 2050
SPIRE is transitioning into the Carbon Neutral and Circular Industry (title to be confirmed) Partnership as one of the co-programming partnerships in HEU  
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7. Measuring, Managing and Monitoring Impact
Every year around April/May, ASPIRE collates information from projects on their likely results and expected impact. The SPIRE PPP has KPIs from the European Commission to demonstrate effectiveness of the programme, some of which are specific to the projects and are gathered via this questionnaire:
KPI I. Scale of reduction in energy, material resources and waste
KPI II. Project results taken-up for further investments (into higher TRLs)
KPI III. Trainings for a higher quality workforce
KPI IV. Patents and activities leading to standardisation
The survey is divided in five parts. Each part can be filled in by the coordinator or by a project partner considering the specific input required:
PART A: Project Fundamentals
PART B: Innovation outcomes - Business impact
PART C: Environmental impact
PART D: Socio-economic impact
PART E: Success Stories
Plan to gather and update relevant data as part of your routine project management activities.
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8. The Family of SPIRE Projects
Over 100 projects have been funded in the SPIRE programme so far. It is likely that several previous projects will have done work on the topic that you working on and there may be other projects funded under the same call. Make sure that you are adding to, or building on, the past research and look for ways to collaborate with projects that are working on related topics.
All SPIRE projects can be found in this online portfolio:
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9. Hosting Project Websites
Projects can host their website on the SPIRE website for free, ensuring greater visibility of projects across the SPIRE community and long-term availability of outputs.
Projects can also choose to host websites independently, with just a link from the SPIRE site. However, you should plan for what will happen to the information once the project has completed.
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10. A.SPIRE Communication Resources
For projects in the SPIRE programme, there is a ready-made audience of SPIRE members and stakeholders who have an interest in the outputs of SPIRE projects.
A.SPIRE can help publicise your project through newsletters, events, brochures and social media channels and provide resources to help show your project as being a part of the broader SPIRE programme.
Digital
SPIRE label
SPIRE projects portfolio
SPIRE Newsletter
Publications & stands available
SPIRE Roadmap
SPIRE Brochure (A4)
SPIRE Projects’ Portfolio (A5)
Roll-up
Pop-up stand
Business cards
Folders
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11. The SPIRE Website – www.spire2030.eu
Host your project’s website, or have a link to an external site
Access guidance on the SPIRE programme and ways to enhance the impact of your SPIRE project (
Access News and Events information
Post, browse and search through SPIRE Project Output Summaries…
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12. Guidance: Project Output Summaries
New for 2019: SPIRE, in collaboration with the SPRING project, have launched a new section on the website to enable users to search and browse outputs from projects across the SPIRE portfolio more easily (e.g. educational resources, images, reports, videos, case studies, technology summaries):
Projects can choose to make ‘Output Summaries’ for single or groups of outputs. Outputs can be tagged for sectors of relevance, keywords etc.
An introductory video to Project Output Summaries and step-by-step guidance on how to produce them can be found here: Output Summary Guidance
Note: from September 2019, a pilot has begun on a broader ‘Horizons Results Platform’, covering key results from projects across H2020, in preparation for Horizon EU. Feedback and information disseminated through the SPIRE Project Outputs framework are expected to further help the development of this system.
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13. Guidance: Integrating Sustainability
Define a benchmark and communicate clearly the baseline against which the results have been assessed.
Consider different aspects and dimensions of sustainability (environmental, economic and social). Inclusion of positive aspects and benefits within the assessments is encouraged.
Apply life cycle based assessment methods and cover both upstream and downstream processes, where relevant to your system boundaries.
Refer to accepted and well-known methods and indicators, and apply standardized methods and indicators and vocabulary, when available.
Address uncertainty related to the applied methods, modelling choices and data, taking into account the TRL of the assessed technology.
Report transparently applied methods, functional unit, system boundaries, data sources, assumptions and limitations of the study.
Guidance from SPIRE projects: SAMT, STYLE and MEASURE:
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14. Guidance: Integrating Sustainability
Set Scope –
Benchmark, Boundary, Functional Unit
Worth discussing at the kick-off meeting.
It is unlikely that everyone attending will have been involved in writing the project proposal
Start Simple – Qualitatively “what are you aiming for your project to achieve?”
How will you get the evidence to prove this?
- Quantitative Data Plan
Visualise results against benchmark
Review at Project Meetings
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15. Consistency in metrics’ calculations
Extract from MEASURE Roadmap:
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16. Example template for tracking sustainability evidence
What are the key expected sustainability impacts of …?
Baseline: e.g te/yr [manufacturing plant of …], using fossil fuel energy, conventional solvents, conventional heat exchangers etc., sited in Southern Spain, Cradle to Gate assessment (producing identical product; improving the process)
Indicator
Baseline
Expected Impact
Global Warming Potential (mainly CO2 emission reduction)*
Currently ~2 te CO2 equivalent per tonne of product
Unsure of impact; data to be evaluated in yr3 of project
Fossil energy intensity*
Cumulative energy demand currently … MJ per tonne of product
May require higher energy usage; data to be evaluated in yr3 of project
Total material consumption*
No critical materials used currently. 250kg of fossil materials per kg of product
Expect 20% reduction in non-renewable raw material usage. Current evaluation shows 10-30% likely reduction.
Economic added value e.g. Annual Operating Cost of [manufacturing plant]
€2 million per year
Expect 5% reduction in OpEx
e.g. Toxicity of Process Chemicals
High tox process solvents in common use
Eliminate use of ‘non-green’ solvents
*core SPIRE metrics
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17. Guidance: Exploitation Planning
Information on Exploitable Results is required at regular intervals throughout your project (not just near the end!). Good practice is to keep a database of results and other outputs for easy reference.
The SPRING project have developed an Exploitable Results example template [download here], which can be used to keep record of information required for:
EC Innovation Radar
SPIRE Annual Project Questionnaire
SPIRE Project Output Summaries
EC H2020 Results Platform*
Suggested content for project exploitation plan
*New system being piloted from September Expected to take content from Innovation Radar, but may be broadened to include other resources, as per Project Output Summaries
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18. Guidance: SPIRE Network Groups
SPIRE Coordinators Network Group: Enabling better collaboration between SPIRE projects, e.g. for shared workshops and communications:
SPIRE Sustainability Practitioners Network Group: for sharing best-practice, ideas, issues etc:
Flexible format for conversations/ posts
Avoids requiring members to visit additional sites
Longevity and helps spread SPIRE messages beyond the PPP
Knowledge Platform available for confidential SPIRE member discussions
Home for guidance generated, events calendars etc.
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19. Guidance: Other resources
See SPIRE website guidance section for more information on topics such as:
Exploitation management (including example Exploitation Template)
Barriers to industrial exploitation
Generating education and training resources
Decision-making for investment
Standardisation (from HARMONI project)
Business models (from INSPIRE project) …
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20. SPIRE Context and Guidance for New Projects
SPIRE Calendar
SPIRE Events ..
Project Events
EC Events
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21. For more information on how A
For more information on how A.SPIRE can help your project, speak to the team, or see:
This guidance was developed in collaboration with the SPRING PROJECT – setting the framework for the enhanced impact of SPIRE projects
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under grant agreement No