MIC3 Platform

MI3 platform
A key output of TRANSIENCE is MIC3, a fully open-source model framework for assessing industrial circularity, decarbonisation, and sustainability. A series of individual but interoperable modules on the socioeconomic, service and product, material, industrial, energy-system, and environmental perspectives of the transformation of European industry have now been developed, building on and opening the code of leading modelling tools, and will soon be integrated into a fully fledged model ecosystem.
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The project will overcome several representational limitations of industry in large-scale computational models and provide a diversified, formalised, fully integrated model ecosystem that brings together all necessary perspectives:

Socioeconomic

to study European industry in terms of global competitiveness, trade, employment, and interdependencies of industrial transformation by sector

Product/end-use

to characterise, among others, key service and product specifications and characteristics, covering energy storage, associated devices, and transport services

Material

to translate the demand for selected end-uses into demand for critical materials provided by industries, enhancing material stock and flow representation for all EIIs in

Industrial

to study the European industry in a bottom-up approach reaching site-level detail, considering a wide range of strategies

Energy system

to capture the complex links between industrial transformation and the energy transition in the EU and neighbouring countries

Environmental

to quantify environmental implications for climate change, human health, ecosystem quality and biodiversity, resource scarcity, and other lifecycle impacts

These perspectives will be operationalised into modules and integrated into MIC3, via dedicated APIs and compatibility protocols, and checked for consistency and feasibility.