By bringing together businesses, public administrations, knowledge centres and civil society, connecting knowledge and capabilities, mobilising projects and supporting partnerships, reN helps translate strategy into viable, collaborative and scalable initiatives.
reN aims to accelerate the transition towards a circular tourism system and generate knowledge and experience that can inspire other island and tourism destinations.
In June 2026, the German federal government adopted an action programme to accelerate the circular transition. This is in line with the 2024 National Circular Economy Strategy.
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A platform for finding partners for projects and mobilising private capital.
The new funding programme Future Circular Economy will support innovative production processes, CRM recovery and digital applications from the end of 2026.
Recycled products will be given priority in public procurement.
A digitisation initiative covering DPPs, new data rooms and AI applications.
Legal improvements, such as a new national textile law and the intended ban on disposable electronic cigarettes, the amendments to the Circular Economy Act, packaging law and the Substitute Building Materials Ordinance.
REBATTEX is a platform which creates the right conditions for stakeholders to buy and sell used electric vehicle batteries.
Each battery is listed with all the information that a potential buyer needs to make an informed choice. As a result, all of a battery's useful life can be exploited before it is recycled.
This meeting will mark an important milestone in the Balearic Islands' circular transition by launching reN · Balear Circular Hub, a collaborative platform designed to connect organisations, share knowledge and foster initiatives that create a positive impact across the archipelago.
The European Commission has launched the Digital Product Passport Registry together with a testing environment. The Registry will support products covered by the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation and other EU legislation requiring Digital Product Passport registration.
All DPPs must be registered: the new DPP website provides information about the process!
This webinar will explore how Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) can be both a rigorous environmental tool and a strategic asset for the product development of buildings and for supporting innovation, market readiness and commercialisation.
Industry experts will share practical insights on integrating LCA into sustainable product development, with a focus on the emerging and highly innovative products developed by the INBUILT project.
This conference will focus on the European policies, technologies and business models that are reshaping circularity, from the Circular Economy Act and textile legislation to the Digital Product Passport and artificial intelligence.
New data confirm a rapid slowdown in Europe’s transition to a circular plastics economy, triggered by the competitiveness crisis facing the European plastics system.
With global circular plastics production accelerating, Europe’s annual growth in circular production has declined sharply from 13.6% in 2022 to only 1.2% in 2024.
New data on trade also highlight the significant dependence of Europe’s plastics transition on external value chains, with 19% of converter demand for circular plastics met through imports and 12.4% of Europe’s collected waste recycled in other regions.
These trends undermine Europe’s climate ambitions and strategic autonomy.
Urgent action is needed at EU and national levels to restore industry’s competitiveness and unlock investment in circular plastics at scale.
This position paper synthesises youth perspectives on the EU Circular Economy Act through a consultation survey of 57 responses across Europe, a youth check at the ECESP Annual Conference 2026 and additional qualitative stakeholder input.
There are two main parts: Youth Priorities: What the Act Still Needs identifies what young people consider is missing or insufficiently addressed in the current framing of the CEA. From Policy to Practice: What Effective Implementation Needs explains how these priorities could be addressed through the Act and its implementation.
The paper concludes that lower material demand, durable product design, reuse, effective collection systems and strong public governance play a key role: recycling is not enough.
The European Parliament has approved rules covering the whole vehicle lifecycle, including binding recycled-plastic content targets, dismantling design requirements and producer-funded treatment of end-of-life vehicles across the EU.
