CircularPSP brings together eight leading Circular Economy cities, representing 45 million people. Its focus ispre-commercial procurement (PCP).
It has invested EUR 5.64 million in R&D and provides training and holds conferences. The procurers represent a number of European countries, including capitals with strong global outreach (Berlin, Helsinki, London and Istanbul).
Its goal is to design, develop and test an innovative ‘circular economy solution’ that enables municipalities and their staff as well as businesses in the local economy to apply circular practices more quickly, frequently, widely and effectively.
Other cities, regions, government organisations, public procurers and projects are encouraged to become part of the Follower Network.
The Circulars Accelerator is a six-month programme connecting up innovators and entrepreneurs with cross-industry leaders and circular experts.
It provides expert mentorship and targeted business advice, supporting innovators as they rethink their approaches and scale up their circular solutions. It enrolls a cohort of early to growth stage innovators in need of specialised, tailored support to accelerate their journey.
Its position is that building the circular economy requires disruptive innovative solutions that transform industries and value chains. Individual companies with innovative solutions cannot deliver the change needed, so delivering on the circular economy requires collaboration across the ecosystem.
Innovators selected to participate receive expert guidance.
Circulary is a web tool managed by BusinessEurope and its national members that contributes to the EU’s agenda on the circular economy.
It continuously brings new examples of innovative ways in which industry, SMEs and other business add to the circular economy in Europe. It highlights the regulatory and non-regulatory challenges these businesses still face in upscaling their current initiatives or starting new ones. The platform is a bottom-up, business-led hub of knowledge and expertise.
Businesses can flag up their circular initiatives and identify barriers to circularity in EU legislation. BusinessEurope will convey these views to EU policymakers.
Circulary also enables members to network and share experiences.
CIRCULÉIRE is Ireland’s National Platform for Circular Manufacturing. It aims to help deliver circular business model innovation by unlocking the value that resides in an Irish circular economy.
It is an industry-led public-private partnership with 25 Founding Industry Members (MNCs and SMEs alike) which aim to become circular economy exemplars in Ireland.
The platform has an innovation fund dedicated to implementing systems-level innovation demonstration projects. It has developed various tools to help businesses go circular: the Circular Economy Infographic, the Circular Maturity Model and the Circularity Action Plan.
CIRCULÉIRE has also set up the CE knowledge library, a collection of good practices.
The International Center for Resources and Innovation for Sustainable Development (CIRIDD in French) was set up in 2005. It aims to contribute to the emergence of new societal models which are more respectful of all living beings, future generations and the planet.
It promotes sustainable development, based on cooperation within organisations, regions and sectors, and its projects vary from local to international. It assists businesses, regions and industries as they shift to greener, more circular business models and strategies, helping them get to grips with the various impacts of their activities and promoting the product-as-a-service model.
CirkArena is an R&D and business platform dedicated to innovation in the circular economy, with a focus on waste valorisation, specifically industrial waste (the mining and metallurgical industry used to be part of the local economy), biowaste and construction waste.
It offers a comprehensive range of services, including consultancy, circular audits, EU compliance advisory, specialised R&D projects, and education and training.
Supported by a strong network of partners across Czechia, it actively works with institutions worldwide and is open to expanding partnerships and exploring new opportunities for cooperation.
Cirkelstad is a national platform connecting private entrepreneurs and policy-makers who are delivering the transition to a circular economy in pioneering Dutch cities.
In addition to a comprehensive database of good practices, research and policy guidelines to inspire practitioners, the Cirkelstad Academie also provides occasional training sessions and advisory services to aspiring circular projects in Utrecht and Amsterdam.
The Prague Circular Hub is a joint initiative by the Institut Cirkulární Ekonomiky, the Alliance for Renewable Energy and the Brno Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Its vision is to build a cultural and innovation centre which seeks to familiarise the general and professional public with the circular economy.
With discussions, seminars, conferences and pilot projects testing new research methods in the field of the circular economy, the Hub promotes the shift to a circular system.
The Hub has completed a Prague Circular Scan with the support of Circle Economy, and now it continues to organise regular ‘buzz talks’ and conduct research to promote the adoption of circular business models in the Czech capital.
The CirQuality OWL plus project is funded by the EU (ERDF) and the Federal State North-Rhine Westfalia with the aim of fostering the circular economy in the area of Eastern Westfalen-Lippe (OWL).
Several regional partners from different fields (from energy to technologies to food to universities and associations) have teamed up to use the circular economy to get the region off the ground in an innovative, crisis-proof, resilient and sustainable way. Together, they organise events and strive to meet the following goals:
Qualification of future specialists and managers for the circular economy
Circular Supply Chain Management Solutions (SSCM)
Turnaround to circular thinking and economics in the building sector
Waste and circular economy of the future in the OWL region.
Citeo is a non-profit active in the field of Extended Producer Responsibility relating to paper and packaging. It works to reduce its environmental impact.
Under the Environmental code, producers and distributers are responsible for - and must pay the costs of – dealing with the waste generated by the packaging used by their products. Companies can transfer their responsibility in this area in exchange for paying to join Citeo. The funds thus collected are used to finance the collection, sorting, recycling and reuse of packaging.
Members also have access to support from Citeo's experts, enabling them to apply eco-design principles to paper and packaging, inform their customers about the products' environmental characteristics and plan for the impact of French and European regulations.
