In order to support the shift towards a resource-efficient EU by decoupling economic development from resource use and environmental degradation, the DYNAMIX project will together tackle four main sets of questions:
- Where do inefficiencies in resource use and resource policies currently occur? What are the underlying drivers? Are there any examples of policy mixes successfully tackling these inefficiencies?
- How do underlying paradigms affect resource use? How can new paradigms (e.g. cradle to cradle or product to services) be translated into concrete policy making?
- What could be three to five most promising policy mixes for achieving absolute decoupling? What potential impacts can we see as a result of state-of-the-art environmental and economic modelling and qualitative analysis, including an analysis of factors influencing human behaviour?
- How can we initiate mutual and lasting learning processes with policy-makers, practitioners and other experts to improve our work toward a resource-efficient EU?
DYNAMIX aims at strengthening policy-makers’ capacity to implement powerful resource efficiency policy options in practice, thereby providing tangible support to major EU strategies, above all the "Europe 2020 Strategy" and the "Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe" – a first step towards concrete action under the flagship initiative "Resource-efficient Europe". To this end, policy-makers, together with other stakeholders, will be involved in a systematic participatory learning process throughout the duration of the project. DYNAMIX Policy Platforms will provide a regular forum for knowledge exchange and mutual learning. Policy-makers thus can shape the project’s design based on their needs, hence ensuring that DYNAMIX provides tangible support to EU policy-making for resource efficiency. By providing tangible support towards the implementation of current EU resource efficiency policies, DYNAMIX will help shorten the path towards a resource efficient economy.
