Industrial symbiosis, resource audit and circular eco-districts in Italy through the implementation of a National Plan: opportunities and challenges

The systematic adoption of industrial symbiosis solutions, resource audit and the transition towards circular eco-district models, the Italian evolution of eco-industrial parks, is
progressively establishing itself as operational practice in national production systems.
In line with the framework of the main European policies for the transition towards the circular economy (Circular Economy Action Plan, Green Deal, EU Industrial Strategy, Clean Industrial Act, Industrial Accelerator Act, …), the adoption of a dedicated National Plan for such strategies can represent a significant added value for the country. This also through the introduction of appropriate instruments aimed at promoting the diffusion of standardised methodologies and interoperable digital tools. In this context, the X edition of the Conference of the Italian industrial symbiosis network - Symbiosis Users Network (SUN), aims to collect technical-scientific contributions from organisations that have implemented industrial symbiosis initiatives, resource audit and sustainability and circularity solutions in industrial areas, contributing to the transition towards eco-industrial park models. Contributions relating to support tools, digital platforms, governance models and programming initiatives adopted at central and local level, aimed at promoting the implementation and dissemination of such practices, are also invited.
This edition of the conference is dedicated to the memory of Silvia Sbaffoni, an ENEA researcher who dedicated, with passion and competence, a large part of her scientific work to these topics.

Session Chairs

Tiziana Beltrani, ENEA – SUN Symbiosis Users Network
Laura Cutaia, ENEA – SUN Symbiosis Users Network
Marco La Monica, ENEA – SUN Symbiosis

Program

10.00 Round table
Moderated by:
Alessandra De Santis, economiacircolare.com
Tiziana Beltrani, ENEA – SUN Symbiosis Users Network

Speeches by:
Raffaele Biondi, Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security
Roberto Tatò, Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy
Maria Teresa Monteduro, Ministry of Economy and Finance
Antonio Visconti, Italian Federation of Industrialisation Consortium Bodies – FICEI
Laura Cutaia, ENEA – SUN Symbiosis Users Network

11.10 Speeches selected from Call for Papers
Moderated by:
Agata Matarazzo, University of Catania
Marco La Monica, ENEA – SUN Symbiosis Users Network

The VSME Model as a lever for industrial symbiosis in SMEs: shared sustainability reporting and financial dialogue for the circular economy
Serena Moscardelli

Mo.Re.No. – Molding, Recycling, Nobilitating
Fabrizio Quadrini1, Loredana Santo1, Denise Bellisario1, Nicola Bartucca2, Tamara Pellegrini3 - 1FERT Srl, 2APEA Regionale Cartoneco, 3Rinnovative Srl

A GIS-based multi-criteria tool for the prioritisation of brownfields in a circular eco-district perspective: the case of the Province of Brescia
Federico Pinzin1, Mentore Vaccari1, Laura Cutaia2, Emanuela De Marco2 - 1Department of Civil, Environmental and Territorial Engineering, Architecture and Mathematics, University of Brescia, 2 ENEA, Department of Sustainability, Circularity and Climate Change Adaptation of Production and Territorial Systems

Is Green always safe? Towards a Safe and Sustainable Industrial Symbiosis (SSIS) framework for eco-districts of the energy transition
Vitantonio Colucci1, Romualdo Marrazzo2; Antonio Trinca3 -1INAIL, 2ISPRA, 3ENEA

Local supply chains as drivers of territorial circularity: analysis of the circular metabolism of the Abruzzese wool supply chain
Raffaella Taddeo, Alberto Simboli, Valentino Tascione, Veronica Casolani

New models of circular economy and industrial symbiosis in the agri-food sector. Opportunities and challenges of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2025/40)
Luigi Servadei, CREA-Council for Agricultural Research and Analysis of Agricultural Economics

AlBIOrelle: an industrial symbiosis model between wastewater treatment and aquaculture for the conservation of Po Valley fish biodiversity
Simone Pigato1, Francesco Piccioli1, Daniele Cecconet1, Annalisa Berni1, Elena Ficara2, 3Katia Parati - 1Alfa Srl, 2Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering DICA, 3Italian Experimental Institute L. Spallanzani, Microalgae and Aquaculture Section

Rethinking wool pathways in Mediterranean cross-border regions: insights from the MARLAINE project
Pierpaolo Duce, National Research Council, Institute of BioEconomy

The Digital Twin as a decision support tool for industrial symbiosis and the transition towards circular eco-districts: the experience of the EcoeFISHent project
Mattia Costamagna, Massimo Perucca, Ahmad Aldaghi, Stefania Truffa, Elena Vioni - Project HUB360

The fashion and textile district of Carpi: circular economy and industrial symbiosis as a lever for development and competitiveness. From material recovery to the digital product passport, to raise quality
Gian Marco Malagoli1, Emilio Bonfiglioli2, Massimo Garuti3 - 1Garc Ambiente, 2Centro Qualità Tessile, 3Carpi Fashion Sistem

12.55 Discussion and conclusions

SELECTED E-POSTERS
Moderated by:
Tiziana Beltrani, ENEA – SUN Symbiosis Users Network
Marco La Monica, ENEA – SUN Symbiosis Users Network

1. Minimum Environmental Criteria in Public Administration: implementation of a Sustainable Industrial Development model
Adriano Pistilli - Independent Professional

2. Circular eco-districts and new territorial industrial policy: industrial symbiosis, resource audit and economic data governance
Andrea Saravalle - Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, DICAM Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering

3. A Practitioner-Oriented Framework for Supporting Decision-Making in Industrial Symbiosis
Alessia Boscarato1, Federica Acerbi1, Sergio Terzi1, Marco La Monica2 - 1Politecnico di Milano, 2ENEA, Department of Sustainability, Circularity and Climate Change Adaptation of Production and Territorial Systems

4. Industrial symbiosis in the water cycle: valorisation of sludge and liquid waste in the CAP model and the BioPlatform of Sesto San Giovanni
Jacopo Vignati, Davide Scaglione - Gruppo CAP

5. Democratizing Environmental Impact Measurement for SMEs: A Modular Framework for the Green Transition
Matías Gatti- Grinpact

6. Landfill biogas and industrial symbiosis: the strategic role of circular eco-districts in the ecological transition
Alessia Bertolotto

7. Digitalisation and total traceability in the end-of-life vehicle supply chain: the GEA-Caronte24 model as an enabler of industrial symbiosis and compliance with the new ELV Regulation
Luca Pomili, Alessio Fabrizi - Pomili Demolizioni Speciali Srl

8. From the definition of 'resource' to Resource Audit 2.0: a technical-methodological approach to Industrial Symbiosis
Tiziana Beltrani, Emanuela De Marco, Marco La Monica, Erika Mancuso, Silvia Sbaffoni, Laura Cutaia - ENEA, Department of Sustainability, Circularity and Climate Change Adaptation of Production and Territorial Systems

9. Assessing the Conditions Enabling Industrial Symbiosis: A Context-Aware Framework with Case Studies from Brescia, Italy
Reza Vahidzadeh, Marta Domini, Giorgio Bertanza - Department of Civil, Environmental, Architectural Engineering and Mathematics (DICATAM), Università degli Studi di Brescia

10. A Science-Based Methodology for the Development of Integrated Carbon Capture and Utilisation Systems: From Thermodynamic Modelling and Laboratory Validation to Industrial Demonstration
Isidoro Giorgio Lesci1, Elisa Rambaldi2, Roberto Rosa3 -1IGL Innovation Foundry srl, 2ITALCER S.p.a. SB, 3Department of Science and Methods for Engineering, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

11. From biomass characterisation to territorial valorisation: the ERICA model in inner areas
Silvia Mosca1, Flaminia Fois1,2, Patrizio Tratzi1, Antonella Macagnano1, Simone Serrecchia1,3, Marco Torre1, Ettore Guerriero1, Valerio Paolini1, Daniele Bianconi1 - 1National Research Council, Institute for the Atmospheric Pollution Research, 2Tuscia University, Department of Agriculture and Forest Sciences, 3University of Naples Federico II, Department of Chemical, Materials and Production Engineering (DICMaPI)

12. Overcoming Barriers to Knowledge Sharing in the Facilitation of Industrial Symbiosis. The Role of the Kalundborg Symbiosis in Advancing Sustainable Development
Marta Dal Farra, Industrial Symbiosis Facilitator (Livorno Simbiosi Industriale)

14. Industrial resilience as a lever for the circular economy: reducing resource losses through infrastructure protection
Marco Chiavarini, A-SAFE

16. Environmental assessment tools for raw earth plasters as a case of industrial symbiosis
Tiziana Cataldo1, Agata Matarazzo1, Rosa Caponetto2, Sonia Azzaro2 - 1University of Catania, Department of Economics and Business, 2University of Catania, Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture

17. Circularity indicators for new plant fibre-based building materials: a systematic review for an integrated assessment framework
Ottavio Spadaro1, Agata Matarazzo2, Carmelo Caggegi3, Piero Guadagnino4 – 1Università degli Studi di Catania, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Architettura (DICAr); Université Savoie Mont Blanc, LOCIE.  2Università degli Studi di Catania, Dipartimento di Economia e Impresa (DEI). 3Université Savoie Mont Blanc, LOCIE. 4Università degli Studi di Catania, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Architettura (DICAr)

19. Towards a national model of Circular Eco-District: development and validation of a rating system for Italian industrial areas
Emanuela De Marco, Marco La Monica, Laura Cutaia - ENEA, Department of Sustainability, Circularity and Climate Change Adaptation of Production and Territorial Systems

20. SYMBA Project - From Environmental to Social Pillars: A Multi-Dimensional Methodology for Assessing Industrial Symbiosis through Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment
A. Pizza1, M. de la Feld1, M. Busto1, H. Leiva2 - L. Ventura2 - 1ENCO srl, 2CIRCE

21. Green Public Procurement
Maria Anna Labarile

22. Industrial symbiosis and the construction sector: valorisation of agri-industrial waste for the production of bio-based building materials
Piero Guadagnino1, Alice Finocchiaro1, Agata Matarazzo2, Rosa Giuseppina Caponnetto1, Sabrina Failla3, Claudia Arcidiacono3 -1University of Catania, Department of Civil-Industrial Engineering and Architecture, 2University of Catania, Department of Economics and Business, 3University of Catania, Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment

23. Assessment of industrial symbiosis potential in Italy in the construction and demolition sector: preliminary evidence from an integrated analysis of resource flows at national scale
Alice Fileni1, Marco La Monica2, Luca Fraccascia1, Laura Cutaia2 - 1Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering 'Antonio Ruberti', 2ENEA, Department of Sustainability, Circularity and Climate Change Adaptation of Production and Territorial Systems (SSPT)

24. A benchmark analysis of Industrial symbiosis implementation in Mediterranean countries: insights from the Medwise project
Antonella Luciano1, Tiziana Beltrani1, Eleonora Foschi1, Marco La Monica1, Arianna Dominici1, Erika Mancuso1, Luigi Gurreri2, Giuseppe Mancini2 – 1ENEA, 2University of Catania

25. La dimensione sociale della simbiosi nei distretti eco-circolari della filiera olivicolo-olearia: una revisione sistematica della letteratura per la selezione di indicatori di performance sociale
Gabriella Arcese, Dario Barberini, Maria Giovina Pasca, Giulia Padovani - Università degli Studi Niccolò Cusano