MeetingPack 2026 brought together specialists, companies and key stakeholders from the packaging value chain to address the challenges and opportunities posed by the transition toward more sustainable models and explore the latest trends in barrier packaging materials and solutions.
The Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking is a €2 billion partnership between the EU and the Bio-based Industries Consortium that funds projects advancing competitive circular bio-based industries in Europe.
See the details of the new call for project proposals!
Scaling circular business models will help the EU achieve its objectives of competitiveness, circularity, resource security and resilience. However, these models have yet to be taken up widely across Europe.
Circular business models can be scaled in three main ways: scaling out (expanding customer numbers); scaling up (influencing structural conditions to support broader adoption); and scaling deep (inducing cultural and behavioural shifts).
Critical thresholds to scaling can be identified: a minimal viable scale; a niche scale; and a transformation point.
There are five key enablers for scaling: regulation and other policies; technological innovation; finance and insurance; social innovation and behavioural change; and supply-chain and ecosystem collaboration.
Digital Product Passports are designed to provide reliable product data supporting sustainability, circularity, value retention for re-use, remanufacturing and recycling.
This company is developing a software-as-a-service solution for EU SMEs, enabling them to produce DPPs quickly and easily.
This report presents the results of a joint research project by the European Investment Bank Group and the European Commission (DG ENV) to assess the circular economy investment gap in the EU.
Annual investments have reached around €120 billion but there is still an investment gap of around €82 billion per year between 2025 and 2040. Gaps are most significant in circular design and end of life infrastructure, and in key sectors such as construction, batteries and vehicles, and textiles.
The report highlights persistent market failures and investment barriers and outlines how EU regulation can help markets to develop and how coordinated EU and EIB financing and advisory action can mobilise investments and accelerate Europe’s circular transition.
The Hubs4Circularity Community of Practice is a network of partners from industries, regions and cities, set up under Horizon Europe to facilitate building, scaling up and replicating of ecosystems of industrial and industrial-urban symbiosis, and circular economy.
Come and learn about Hubs4Circularity initiatives and engage with experts and stakeholders from industry, regions and cities, policy, research and innovation!
This is the fourth edition of the strategic environmental monitoring reports that the Basque Ecodesign Center produces based on the knowledge acquired through its monitoring system.
The report compiles the latest regulatory and market developments driving the transition towards a decarbonised, more circular economy and explores how they are relevant to the value chains in which the Basque Ecodesign Center’s partner companies operate.
It identifies new standards and recognised methodologies that are relevant to those chains and identifies ten key challenges for the circular economy for 2026, such as security of supply and self sufficiency of materials as keys to competitiveness and circularity in the new geopolitical context.
REFRESH is a European project aiming to develop and demonstrate a novel circular, smart system enabling improved recycling of glass fibre reinforced composites derived from wind turbine dismantling or reblading.
This event will show how they are progressing towards this goal.
This conference will focus on how circular ideas can be turned into economically viable, environmentally effective and socially beneficial business models under real-world conditions.
It will bring together strategic, operational and systemic perspectives on the circular economy and bioeconomy.
