New European Bauhaus Prizes 2023

Concept category

Identify the award category for which this concept is being submitted
Shaping a circular industrial ecosystem and supporting life-cycle thinking

Email user
edomazzone23@gmail.com

Basic information
Concept title
RAEE recycling project

Full Concept Title
How to automate the recycling of any part of a PCB

Please provide a short, catchy description of your concept to be used in communication towards the public
The project

What was the geographical scope of your concept?
Cross-border/international

Where was your concept implemented?
Location 1
Italy

Location 2
Germany
Member State(s), Western Balkans and other countries
- Member State(s), Western Balkans and other countries: Sweden
If relevant, insert names of region(s)/municipality(ies) involved
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Does your concept address mainly urban or rural issues?
It addresses urban-rural linkages

Does your concept refer to a physical transformation of the built environment or other types of transformations (hard or soft investments)?
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)

Has your concept benefited from EU programmes and/or funds?
No

Has your concept won an EU prize with a monetary value awarded?
No

On whose behalf are you submitting the application?
As an individual
Social Media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.)
- URL: https://www.instagram.com/edo_mazzone/
In case my concept is selected as a finalist of the NEB Prizes 2023, I agree to share the name (individual and/or organisation’s), email address, website and social media accounts indicated above with other NEB Prizes finalists. I also agree to publish the name (individual and/or organisation’s), website and social media accounts indicated above next to the public description of my concept in the channels of the European Commission
Yes

How did you hear about the New European Bauhaus Prizes?
Other partecipants

Description of the concept
Please provide a summary of your concept.
My concept is to collect all types of RAEE and then reuse or recycle all parts of the PCB that control these objects. Nowadays the percentage of recycling is about 45% in the EU (from Eurostat) for electrical and electronic equipment. My project aims to collect every single component and sell it to industries that can buy it at a lower price than a new one. Another point is the automation of processes through robotics and AI that recognize different components and count them to have a sort of big register of electronic components, this is possible with multiple cameras that take images of the electronic boards to get analysed by AI. After heating the board the parts will desolder and a robot can take them and place them in apposite areas.

Please indicate the main themes of your concept with 5 key words.
Recycle

Please indicate the main themes of your concept with key words
Rare earth elements

Please indicate the main themes of your concept with key words
Reuse

Please indicate the main themes of your concept with key words
Indipendency

Please indicate the main themes of your concept with key words
Microchip

Please give information about the key objectives of your concept in terms of sustainability and how these have been met. Please highlight how the concept can be exemplary in this context.
Sustainability is the core of my concept because future generations will have access to electronics at lower prices due to the reuse of components, there will be a circular chain based on high-performance recycling of PCB and we can imagine a reduction of mining of new materials for microchips. There are benefits for all categories of sustainability, social, environmental and political due to an increase in trading between nations for these components that we now import from the East.

Please give information about the key objectives of your concept in terms of aesthetics and quality of experience for people (through design, positive emotions and cultural benefits) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the concept can be exemplary in this context.
For sure the concept improves the aesthetics of landscapes because there won't be landfills for RAEE anymore, other cultural benefits are examples of a truly circular economy that allows people to imagine a future without a linear conception of things.

Please give information about the key objectives of your concept in terms of inclusion (ranging from accessibility and affordability for all to inclusive governing systems, design for all principles or new societal models) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the concept can be exemplary in this context.
In terms of inclusion, the concept aim is a collaboration between different nations with different knowledge to reach the ultimate aim: the complete reuse of electronic components or full recycling. In order to do that is needed different skills and cooperation between people involved in the project.

Please explain the way citizens benefiting from or affected by the concept and civil society have been / will be involved in the concept and what has been / will be the impact of this involvement on the concept.
Citizens will see a reduction in the cost o all electronic devices and a reduction in price increase due to the blockchain shortage. Society will be involved in the birth of the centres of collection of RAEE which need a strong communication act to involve all people in the recycling and differentiation of waste.

Please explain how different stakeholders at various levels (local, regional, national, European) were engaged in the design and development of the concept. Please highlight what the added value of their engagement was
The different stakeholders will contribute to creating a new circular economy, first in a local and regional sight and then to involve more countries and make them collaborate through investments in the project which aim is create a company specialized in the reuse and recycling of electronic components for reduce the imports of rare earth elements from China in order to create a Europe supply chain.

Please explain which disciplines and / or knowledge fields were reflected in the design and development of your concept. Please explain how representatives of these different fields interacted with each other, and what the added value of this process was
The disciplines involved are STEM, in particular the Engineer of materials, and informatics to train the AI models and mechanics to build an automatized process. The synergy between them is fundamental to reaching the aim.

Please explain the innovative character of your concept when compared to mainstream actions in the field of the concept.
The innovative character is the company that provides goods reuses them and selling to other people or companies that will have a cost reduction and sustainable action.

Please which elements of your concept could be replicated or transferred to other places, groups of beneficiaries and contexts. This may involve, for example, aspects of the methodology, technology, processes, products, learnings, etc.
Every element of the concept can be replicated in other places, countries, and groups because once you have the base collect platform you needed to create local commerce based on the reuse of components that you have collected.

Please explain what kind of global challenges the concept addresses by providing local solutions
The global challenges are a lot, first the competition with big companies that have an interest in making new microchips instead of reusing them, then the specialized companies in this sector that have the knowledge to replicate the project and create their one. Last but not least create a team that works with synergy to create the base platform, both hardware and software, to start the beta phase.

Please attach the development plan of your concept. This plan should detail the plans you have for the further development and implementation of your concept, with a particular attention to the steps envisaged in the year following the application. The plan should also include envisaged results and benefits from the concept for direct and indirect beneficiaries. The results and benefits should be specified in relation to the objectives of the concept, and to what is expected in the context of the respective category

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