The Epicentre Project is an EU-Life funded programme involving Ireland, UK, Hungary, Germany and Spain. The Epicentre project has been developed by a collaborative partnership of organisations with expertise in the areas of EU based environmental projects on best practice, performance improvement, benchmarking and dissemination. The Epicentre partnership will form a European Economic Interest Group during the lifetime of the project.

Epicentre will aim to support continuous improvement in environmental performance(EP) in organisations across the EU. The objectives of the project are to achieve :

• 5 EMAS registrations
• Develop innovative approaches and applications of the environmental performance evaluation model
• Support knowledge and technology transfer from the more developed states to the less developed ones
• Work with 250 organisations to develop a set of environmental performance indicators that can be used to support accession reporting, resource management, greenhouse gas emissions and regulatory controls on environmental reporting
• Run 10 dissemination workshops with regional partners and 10 in other EU states

Epicentre will address the problems associated with ensuring continual EP improvement at organisational, institutional, national and international levels. It will also provide a reproducible and transferable framework by which EP trends and legislative/policy efficiencies and movements towards sustainability may be tracked and evaluated.

• 5 EMAS registrations
• Pan-European Network delivering EP evaluation EMS
• 1 set of environmental indicators for Industry, Utilities, Service, Tourism, Public Sector
• Indicator sets for tracking accession or other targets
• 1 pilot for indicator data transfer between organisations regulatory/policy bodies
• Feasibility study to compare potential EP results from different EU states
• 250 organisations from 5 sectors to implement the model
• Supply chain models developed and tested

Specific Applications will be tested by each partner country and these will include the following :

• Spain - The development of indicators that focus on water quality and the impact of tourism
• Hungary - The development of indicators that are directly linked to accession targets for environmental performance and a case study on the potential use of such data for collation and reporting purposes against accession targets at regional and national level.
• Germany - Indicators that can be used to report key information on legislative requirements and policy to local/regional regulators
• Ireland - Indicators to monitor the impact of economic growth and resource consumption.
• UK - Indicators that can be used in the supplier-customer interface to benchmark and even compare performance at sector or generic level.

• Ireland
• Italy
• Latvia
• Netherlands
• Poland
• Portugal
• Slovenia
• Spain
• Sweden
• United Kingdom - Project Acorn

Contact


Mr. Norbert Gallagher
Phone: +353 1 8227125
Fax: +353 1 8227116
E-Mail: norbertg@ipc.ie
WWW-Page: www ipc ie


EU-LIFE Contribution in Euro
1,152,443 (47,70 %)

For more information
info @ life-epicentre.com