Scaling Circular Car Parts in Nordic Insurance - SCAPINI

Background

The project is initiated and led in close collaboration with Nordic insurance companies, who have a decisive role in repair decisions. Their participation ensures that solutions can be tested, validated, and implemented directly in real repair processes during the project.

The consortium includes insurers, auto-workshops, dismantlers, digital platform providers, research institutes, and industry organisations. Together they will deliver work packages that:

• Map, validate and document material, information, and financial flows in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark
• Model circular scenarios per country. Develop and document the supporting business models and rough business case for actors.
• Develop shared Nordic requirements for quality, traceability, and vehicle design-for-reuse/reman.
• Test behavioural interventions and improved processes directly in insurer and workshop workflows.
• Develop policy recommendations.

The project prepares Nordic stakeholders for upcoming EU regulations, including the Sustainable Products Regulation, the Digital Product Passport, the Right to Repair initiative, as well as regulations on spare part access and traceability—frameworks that will fundamentally reshape automotive repair and circular material flows. It also reflects the upcoming Circular Economy Act which is expected to be adopted by the European Commission in 2026.

Nordic added value

The purpose of the project is to make circular repair the easy, trusted and economically attractive choice across the Nordic region. By increasing the reuse of car parts and keeping components containing critical raw materials in circulation longer, the project contributes to reduced emissions, lower repair costs and more resilient value chains.

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