Project roadmap
ASSET is built around a diverse programme of activities and events taking place across the Eurodelta region and involving experts and students.
Meet & Learns
Monthly webinars open to professionals & students working/studying in the field of urban planning, logistics, harbors, transport, circular economy.
ASSET is also running a series of monthly 'Meet and Learn' webinars (18 lectures in total) to explore the topic of the Circular Built Environment in more detail. The lineup of speakers is diverse, spanning various fields such as: construction, logistics, port operations, freight transport and spatial planning; representing both the private & public sectors. Upcoming webinars will be posted under News.
Timeline
2023
Project Start
ASSET project is approved as a small-scale Interreg NWE project, which signals the official start date of the project.
2024
TU Delft Studio Course: Spatial Strategies for the Global Metropolis
Masters Urbanism students are tasked to conduct a region design consisting of developing a vision and strategy with spatial interventions at different spatial levels within North-West Europe. The results of the studio will be inspiration for a) design principles & b) building blocks of a future strategy and action plan for the ASSET project.
2024
RWTH Aachen Course: Transforming City Regions Masters Module II
Transforming City Regions Masters' module, Integrated Project II: Evolution of functional urban areas, focuses on the city scale using the study case of Haven -city in Amsterdam. Tasks will include: conceptualising circularity, implement circularity into the development, and strategically integrate social, economic and cultural elements.
2024
ASSET on Tour Excursion
2024
TU Delft Summer school
3-day course hosted by Circular Built Environment Hub at the TU Delft that focuses on the Eurodelta and its potential to contribute to the transition to a circular built environment – open to students (BSc and MSc), PhD candidates, and professionals (architects, urban planners, policy makers).
2024
CBE-related Policies & Strategies Analysis
The objective of this activity is to take stock of the current CBE-related policies (including circular economy policies and land use policies and strategies) of the participating cities and regions in the ASSET project.
2024
Local & Regional Workshops
City and regional partners will organize workshops where relevant stakeholders (urban planners, policymakers, industry representatives, NGOs, CE and logistics experts, and networks) will be invited. The workshops will be designed and moderated by an external advisor (BVR) who will be present in all workshops.
2024
Circular Design Atlas
Online opensource database that will accommodate case studies across the material, component, building, neighbourhood, city and regional scale derives from best practices provided and analyzed by project partners specifically city/regions.
2024
ASSET Working Seminar Part 1
First part of the working seminar (in Eindhoven) in which project partners, based on the insights from the previous activities, draw up a strategy on interregional collaboration, to accelerate the transition towards a circular built environment.
2025
Next Generation Podium
An online Hack-a-ton organized by the Association of Deltametropolis (VDM), in which students from different universities of the Eurodelta - and beyond - can participate to explore the spatial challenges of circularity (in the built environment), and to inspire with new ideas for a circular city/region/Eurodelta and interregional cooperation.
2025
ASSET Working Seminar Part 2
Second part of the working seminar (in Duisburg) in which project partners, based on the insights from the previous activities, draw up a strategy on interregional collaboration, to accelerate the transition towards a circular built environment.
2025
RWTH Aachen Course: Transforming City Regions Masters - EURODELTA 2050+ Research Module
As part of the Transforming City Regions Masters program offered by RWTH Aachen , a research module called EURODELTA 2050+ was offered. It was initially set to run in the winter semester of 2024-2025, but was rescheduled to the spring 2050 semester. The module was designed to focus on analysing spatial conditions needed for a circular transition and the development of spatial strategies for a CBE.
RWTH Aachen Course; Circular Urban Landscapes
An elective course on Circular Urban Landscapes was also offered by RWTH Aachen in Spring 2025. Students learned about and analysed spatial strategies for circular urbanism including Circular South Holland Spatial Strategy, which is the basis of the ASSET project.
2025
ASSET Conference
The final conference of the ASSET project will take place in Brussels to disseminate and share the results of the ASSET project and sign agreement of further cooperation to ensure awareness and commitment between local, regional and national authorities, targeting also representatives from the EU, Benelux, France and Germany.