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Recap of items published recently!
11 Oct 2024
The ECESP adds a fair number of items to the website every week: this recap will help you keep up!
LIAISE COST Action: supporting industrial symbiosis for a year now!
14 Oct 2024
LIAIS-ing for industrial symbiosis!
LIAISE is a research network set up by COST. To put it in words rather than acronyms, it’s a four-year research network focusing on Cooperation, development and cross-border transfer of Industrial Symbiosis among industry and stakeholders which was set up under European Cooperation in Science and Technology.
Interested in taking p...
EU Ecolabel: doing well and contributing to the circular economy!
10 Oct 2024
10 October is World Ecolabel Day!
And the label is doing really well: the European Commission has released the latest statistics showing continued growth in the number of products (goods and services) awarded the EU Ecolabel. See how it contributes to the circular economy!
SCALE-UP project: community-driven bioeconomy development
01 Sep 2022
The SCALE-UP project helps regional multi-actor partnerships identify and scale-up innovative, sustainable bio-based value chains that build on regional resources.
It aims to adapt, implement and evaluate tools to help regional actors overcome bottlenecks towards fully exploiting circular bioeconomy potential. In this way, it will promote regional, rural, local/urban and consumer-based tr...
METALLON project: reusing and recycling lithium-ion batteries
01 Jan 2023
The METALLON research project aims to improve the process of reusing and recycling lithium-ion batteries in order to recondition them. If this is not possible, it wants to optimise recycling and recovery processes to extract and recover the lithium and other high-value metals and minerals contained in these batteries.
Romania Unfolds: Responsible production and consumption
18 Sep 2024
Romania Unfolds is a documentary series focusing on Romania's transition to a more environmentally-friendly model. Episode 3 looks at sustainable production and consumption, exploring a project supporting short food chains and a system of returnable packaging.
BIOFAST: getting bioplastics to degrade ASAP in a compost heap!
24 Sep 2024
Compostable bioplastics?
BIOFAST is a research project working on bioplastics. They aimed to make bioplastics degrade more quickly in composting environments - and they succeeded. Read all about it!
Apply for the I AM CIRCULAR challenge!
18 Sep 2024
The I AM CIRCULAR challenge is your opportunity to showcase your innovations and lead the charge in the circular economy. This is not just a competition: it's a celebration of transformative ideas that are reshaping our world. Apply by 15 November!
Circular Week 21-27 October 2024
03 Jul 2024
Circular Week is an international series of events and initiatives dedicated to the circular economy and sustainable development, taking place across Europe. This year, the event will take place on 21-25 October.
Any company, individual, institution, association or other entity which would like to be a co-organiser and partner of Circular Week can host their own event from 21-25 October. ...
Nordic Circular Summit 2024 - save the date!
23 Aug 2024
This year, the Nordic Circular Summit will take place in Helsinki, Finland and online on 18-19 November. It will be focusing on the enterprise of circular economy. Can entrepreneurs and startups close the Nordic circular economy gaps? Come and find out!