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.

SmartProSys (Smart Process Systems for a Green Carbon-based Chemical Production in a Sustainable Society) is a research initiative for sustainable chemistry and circular economy at the Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany. It is funded by the Ministry for Science, Energy, Climate Protection and the Environment of the State of Saxony-Anhalt.

SmartProSys aims to replace fossil raw materials in chemical production with renewable carbon sources, thus contributing to a carbon-neutral society. The initiative involves researchers from the fields of systems-oriented process engineering, chemistry, mathematics, logistics, political science and psychology.

The initiative also organises events and issues a newsletter.

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.

State of Green is a one-point entry to more than 600 Danish solution providers driving the global transition to a sustainable, low-carbon, resource-efficient society. It connects international partners with Danish companies, changemakers, agencies, experts and researchers in order to facilitate knowledge sharing and accelerate the global transition towards a sustainable, net-zero future.

It shares Danish know-how via publications, digital showcases, at international conferences, by welcoming delegations and through media engagement.

The platform focuses on renewable energy, energy distribution and integration, energy efficiency, water, cities, transport, industry, building, agriculture and green transition enablers. Circular principles are mentioned in each area.

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.

The Swedish Life Cycle Center is an initiative by the Swedish Energy Agency, hosted by Chalmers University of Technology, which strengthens collaboration and encourages more organisations to apply a life cyle perspective in Sweden.

It focuses on life cycle thinking about products. This means considering not just what happens during its production or use, but also how the raw materials were made and what happens after the user no longer wants it.

The centre, designed for academia, industry, research institutes and government agencies, has been active for 20+ years. It runs projects, including a Circularity and life cycle assessment working group, and has a library of publications. 

The centre also runs a two-day course in Applied Life Cycle Thinking. 
 

Enea has designed an industrial symbiosis platform intended for businesses and other entities located in Italy.

It aims to bring together supply of and demand for resources (materials, energy by-products, water, services and expertise) and create the conditions to transfer these between stakeholders. The goal is to create a network of Italian enterprises in line with the principles of industrial symbiosis.

Enterprises register and list at least one resource they want to share, and a match is identified. The platform can also analyse an enterprise's resource management system with a view to finding ways to optimise it, both internally and externally (based on collaboration or industrial symbiosis). 

Taranto Circolare is a platform that connects up companies, projects and funding with a view to fostering circular opportunities in the region.

It aims to create a network of actors that are in synergy locally, while also catering for national and international companies looking for opportunities in Puglia. It is driven by the Tondo association, which aims to develop and consolidate sustainable and circular projects in this urban area.

The platform will give companies, public authorities and organisations the opportunity to be part of a network implementing circular projects, provide specific tools and help actors measure the circularity of services and products.

The Taskforce for climate neutral and circular materials and products was launched at COP26 in September 2021, convened by the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. 

It aims to influence policy discussions by enabling progressive businesses across sectors and value chains to join forces. It brings together companies committed to using climate neutral and sustainable materials and which are raising awareness about the need for EU measures to help decarbonise materials.

The key objective is to drive the development and implementation of and support for more ambitious, future-proof policies, programmes and initiatives in Europe with a view to creating an ecosystem moving rapidly away from the energy- and resource-intensive production of materials.

Tondo is a hub of organisations dedicated to the circular economy, working to create an ecosystem for universities, start-ups, companies, organisations and individuals to foster innovation, entrepreneurship and circularity.

In addition to creating a space where entrepreneurs, innovators and designers can develop projects related to the circular economy, Tondo furthers knowlege of circular topics, supports new, circular-oriented companies and helps established companies become more circular.

Tondo aims to make the circular economy part of people's daily lives, accelerating the transition towards a regenerative and circular industrial and economic system.

It prepares reports and runs various events and workshops. Individuals and companies can join the platform's community.