During its 42 months, CENTRINNO has produced and submitted 44 deliverables, developed 370 local activities and was involved in 18 European-Level events. A collaborative environment supported continuous communication flow between all partners, including 15 Steering Committee meetings, 39 Programme Board meetings, 62 Pilot Coordination meetings, 25 Dissemination meetings, 24 infrastructure alignment meetings, 6 consortium meetings. During project implementation, two Grant Agreement amendments were redacted and approved for validating changes relating to the partnership and the impact assessment methodology.
Partners worked on developing a common approach, envisioned in the CENTRINNO framework and on the development of a serie of resources developed to support the experimentation and futures uses: The CENTRINNO Infrastructure composed by the CENTRINNO Whitepaper, Framework and Handbook has been designed to build a rich picture of the CENTRINNO approach. The CENTRINNO Cartography was iteratively designed as a platform that supports communities in facilitating a circular economy transition in their neighborhood. The Living Archive was developed as an open access platform containing content (stories) stemming from (post-) industrial sites. The Fab City Hubs Toolkit was designed as an interactive online manual enriched with tools, templates, and practical activities supporting the development of a shared vision, an engaged community and an adapted infrastructure for new and existing Fab City Hubs. The CENTRINNO School comprises a collection of methodologies, tools, and approaches designed for any organisation seeking to develop educational programs focused on circular and digital manufacturing.
Three sprints of activities were carried out (Sprint 1: April 2021 – October 2021, Sprint 2: March 2022 to September 2022, Sprint 3: February 2023 to August 2023). In total, the nine pilot cities developed 849 activities, organised in missions, connected to local challenges and productive activities, reaching more than 40000 people. Pilots were supported by the Pilot Coordination Team in mapping activities, heritage-related workshops, educational activities, or local network building. Reflective moments in between sprints occurred both online and in innovative formats of workshops during presential and distributed consortium meetings, serving for peer-learning and consolidation of the framework and associated platforms.
CENTRINNO impact assessment zoomed in processes of change that led to the desired impact in the long-term, observing how to locally consolidate resources, awareness and skills, networks and relationships, and infrastructures towards regenerative neighborhoods. It focused on the monitoring and evaluation of three continuous processes of change: outcomes (pilot-level), strategies (resource level), organizational practices (project-level). 137 outcome challenges, 248 strategies and 10 organizational practices were observed and analyzed. The approach was appreciated by pilots both as a space to dialogue and reflect on qualitative changes, and to structure their local impact assessment.
CENTRINNO activities were disseminated through the project’s website (80 blog posts), 12 newsletters, 2 scientific publications and >3000 social media followers. 16 key exploitable assets were identified by the consortium. Towards M42 the final versions of the FCHs Toolkit, the Cartography and the Living Archive were developed. In addition, the development of the Handbook and associated Blueprints increased the visibility and pathways of replication. Four key resources were chosen as the projects Key Exploitable Results (KERs). the Horizon Results Booster Services Module C supported the consolidation of the strategy of exploitation, building a series of exploitation roadmaps.
Efforts were made to strengthen the model of Fab City Hubs and to sustain the CENTRINNO Network led by the nine Fab City Hubs. The integration of the Fab City Foundation in the consortium, and the presence of the ECHN network created direct bridges to guarantee opportunities for replication across and beyond Europe. In addition, CENTRINNO collaborated with their Sister Projects T-FACTOR and HUB-IN in the co-design of a policy report entitled “Towards innovative, inclusive and creative hubs in European cities”.
