European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform

BauKarussell is a consortium supported and co-run by industrial actors and the City of Vienna. It seeks to establish circular loops in the city's construction sector, with an emphasis on large-scale demolition. The platform focuses on compliance with new regulations and ensuring that reusable components are dismantled and made available for reuse through partnerships with large property developers.

Green practices are becoming standard practice in the construction sector in Austria, and this initiative is in line with that trend. Workers from social enterprises actually prepare material for reuse. It is estimated that the consortium could create around 9 000 jobs in Austria.

Based in Catalonia, Som Mobilitat is a non-profit consumer cooperative providing mobility products and services. It aims to speed up the transition to more sustainable mobility.

It promotes a mobility model based on walking, cycling and public transport, and, if strictly necessary, using shared electric vehicles.

Som Mobilitat is a product-as-a-service platform with a focus on mobility. People can hire electric cars that are owned by the cooperative itself or by individuals, businesses and public institutions. You book a car via the platform. It is working on bike-sharing, motorbike-sharing or car-pooling and ride-sharing.

The platform is also active in sharing good practices with similar organisations across Europe.

ACCEZ is a platform which aims to foster circular economy practices in the southern Netherlands. 

It pools initiatives by several regional universities and public and private actors in the following fields:

• area development
• circular agriculture
• manufacturing industries
• plastic.

The platform bolsters cooperation between partners to develop solutions to knowledge-intensive issues. To do so, they oversee and fund triple-helix research projects. The end-goal of the platform is to enhance the regional knowledge base and networks, with a view to substantially accelerating the transition to a circular economy.

The Sustainable Procurement Platform is managed by ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability. It provides up-to-date news, case studies, events and guidance on sustainable procurement from across the world.

Its focus is sustainable and circular procurement. Circular procurement involves considering the whole lifecycle of products throughout their supply chain and ensuring that the products and services acquired generate benefits not only for the buyer, but also for the environment, society and the economy.

The platform showcases replicable sustainable, circular and innovation procurement approaches and strategies. Its resource centre contains over 200 case studies setting out the methods used, the obstacles overcome and successes achieved in implementing sustainable public procurement.

Mercado Organizado de Resíduos is a Portuguese online platform that can be used to trade different types of waste for recovery (with the exception of waste classified as hazardous by the general waste management scheme).

MOR provides the space for waste of all categories to be traded, whether for recovery or for disposal under the country's general waste management scheme. This includes transactions and exchange of by-products and recycled materials.

The Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente (Portuguese Environment Agency) has licensed MOR Online as the first integrated management platform in the waste market.

Sitra works with partners from different sectors to research, trial and implement bold new ideas that shape the future. It aims to make Finland a pioneer in sustainable well-being.

It is a future-oriented fund which creates preconditions for reform, spurring everyone towards making a change and providing opportunities for co-operation.

Sitra’s work focuses on supporting a fair transition to a circular economy and investigating how business can be based on sharing instead of ownership. Sitra is also working to advance circular trade policies, to increase the understanding of environmental effects of digitisation and to explore the potential of the circular economy to safeguard biodiversity.

Circular Change focuses on establishing and fostering dialogue between stakeholders, particularly as regards creating circular economy roadmaps. It promotes new narratives, exchanges knowledge and enables innovation. 

Projects

CIRCULAR STRATEGIES

• Strategic consulting in the field of the circular economy and innovation
• Sustainable and circular brand, product and service development
• Stakeholder mapping and circular collaboration

ROADMAPPING PROCESS

• Co-creation, development and implementation of circular roadmaps at national or local level

EXPERT CONTRIBUTION

• Research, reports and scenarios
• Coaching for circular frontrunners
• Keynote speeches, moderating, workshops, lectures.

Circular Point is a service hub providing circular economy solutions for companies and organisations. It was set up by Geonardo, a company which aims to solve complex societal challenges by providing cutting-edge solutions.

Circular Point aims to make its clients more profitable and efficient, while creating a positive environmental, social and consumer impact.

It offers training sessions for companies during which the company's employees are taught how to apply circular principles to its operations, improving both its environmental and financial performance. The hub also works with institutions, local governments and NGOs, showing them how to go circular and convince their target audience of the merits of this shift, and with individuals.

The Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP) is an international, non-profit think-and-do tank that works with businesses, policy makers, partner organisations and civil society to deliver a good life for all. They are experts in sustainable solutions and aim to mainstream sustainability.

CSCP is active in fields such as social innovation, sustainable product portfolio and footprint assessments. It provides policy advisory services rooted in scientific research and hands-on experience, and develops focused research and evaluation through real-time prototype testing in a holistic living lab format. It also conducts training and capacity building.

The Conseil Européen de Remanufacture represents small and large businesses from all remanufactured product sectors.

It aims to triple the value of Europe’s remanufacturing sector (including automotive, aviation, acoustic devices, agricultural, construction, electrical and IT imaging equipment, defense and electronics) to EUR 100 billion by 2030.

Open to participation with universities in Horizon and similar EU-funded research programmes, it has access to several experienced technical research staff. With links to WEF, OECD, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, UNEP, it is well connected to standards organisations and academic researchers in the fields of circular design, eco-design, product life extension, IR4.0 and digital.