WP3’s goal is twofold: on one hand this work package sets out to perform a holistic, comprehensive sustainability assessment of the demonstrators as built within the project, and of their potential optimised and upscaled configurations and, on the other hand, to contribute to the optimisation of the BIOMETHAVERSE innovations design by providing eco-design guidelines and assessing the performances of alternative configurations to identify the most sustainable ones.

A state-of-the-art sustainability assessment methodology, covering the economic, social, and environmental pillars of sustainability, will be developed to avoid potential trade-off among sustainability aspects. The methodology developed will be applied to the BIOMETHAVERSE innovations investigated in WP2 to identify the most promising configurations with an eco-design approach. The results of the sustainability assessment will allow to draw conclusions and recommendations on the future application of the demonstrators’ concepts (WP4).