The CircularInvest EU consortium has prepared a manual for investors looking to know more about what is involved in investing in circular businesses. 

It applies to most types of business and is structured around the classic investment principles of value, risk and impact.

This call is looking for factory-level technologies geared to de-manufacturing and re-manufacturing. 

It includes predictive maintenance, automated processes for de-manufacturing products, CAD data and digital twins, on-site repair, and planning operations based on the products to be re-manufactured.

Deadline: 2 February 2027.

This Horizon Europe call is looking for proposals for advanced materials designed with a view to circularity and resilient supply networks. The proposals should aim to take materials from TRL 4-5 to 6, accompanied by a circular business model.

Deadline: 2 February 2027

The region of Tuscany is offering financing for Tuscan SMEs interested in setting up or developing industrial systems for recovering and processing waste.

They are looking for waste recovery facilities, systems for monitoring and tracking waste flows, technologies for reducing rejects, and industrial symbiosis.

This open call is looking for startups, scale-ups and SMEs in fashion, architecture and audiovisual media. 

The projects should be at TRL 7 to TRL 9, and focus on circular textile technologies, bio-based building materials or responsible AI for content creation.

Deadline: 30 October 2026

Third-sector association Fondazione LGH is looking for Italian R&D projects in the agrifood and cosmetics industries which want to turn ideas into impact. 

The goal is to transfer skills and knowledge, support innovation and make Italy more competitive. Relevant areas include the circular economy.

Apply by 30 November

The Interreg Greece-Italy Programme is looking for small-scale projects supporting the circular economy, and culture and sustainable tourism. 

The goal is to make border regions more resilient to common challenges, find shared solutions and harness the untapped growth potential in border areas.

CALL CLOSED

This Horizon Europe call is looking for ways to produce more diverse and sustainable nutritional food ingredients and promote public acceptance of them.

Projects must demonstrate efficient production of a protein, lipid, specialty carbohydrate and/or fibre from non-direct bio-based feedstocks.

CALL CLOSED

This Horizon Europe call is looking for ways to extend the life of buildings, reduce their environmental impact and facilitate the use of predictive maintenance.

Proposals should develop a tool for predictive maintenance and repair and a package of maintenance and repair measures.

Apply by 1 December 2026

This Horizon Europe call is looking for projects which create a loop of recyclable food packaging, involving the full value chain from ecodesign to recycling and informing the public about proper disposal

Proposals should come up with mono-material multilayer flexible plastic solutions which can be recycled for use in food packaging.

CALL CLOSED