Following the success of the sixth European Food & Beverage Plastic Packaging Summit which brought 100+ senior industry professionals to Antwerp in February 2022, the event will be returning to Belgium. The seventh Summit will take place in Antwerp on 15-16 February 2023.

Following the success of Lignofuels 2022 which brought 150+ senior industry professionals to Helsinki in June 2022, we are pleased to announce that the 2023 conference will be taking place in Helsinki again on 8-9 February 2023.

On 1 December 2022, Commissioner Mariya Gabriel launched the largest public consultation ever held on the past, present and future of the Horizon Framework Programmes 2014-2027.

The consultation will be open until mid-February 2023.

This initiative will provide selected households with a cost-free circular economy advisory service. Firstly, all available knowledge about measuring and calculating households' greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts will be screened and consolidated. A simple and robust method for quickly comparing environmental impacts will then be established, drawing on product environmental footprint expertise.

The European Commission's Horizon Europe Framework Programme has launched a call for the circular economy and bioeconomy sectors, with particular reference to circular systemic solutions under the Circular Cities and Regions Initiative (CCRI).

In this context, a circular systemic solution is defined as a demonstration project for deploying a circular and climate-neutral economy at urban and/or regional scale, involving key stakeholders and, ideally, addressing more than one product value chain. Proposals are expected to implement and demonstrate at large scale circular systemic solutions for the deployment of the circular economy (including the circular bioeconomy) in cities and regions or their groupings. They should form part of the implementation of the European Commission's Circular Cities and Regions Initiative (CCRI) and should be carried out in close coordination and cooperation with the CCRI Coordination and Support Office (CCRI-CSO).

Annual Conference 2023: Recovery, Open Strategic Autonomy and Resilience

The European Commission and the European Economic and Social Committee will host the 2023 European Circular Economy Stakeholder Conference on 27 and 28 February 2023.

Circle Economy, the founders of the Circularity Gap Report, and Deloitte, held the online launch of the global Circularity Gap Report 2023 on 16 January 2023 (14.00 - 16.00 CET).

The livestream programme included a presentation of the outcomes of the Circularity Gap Report 2023 and a panel discussion attended by policymakers and business leaders.

Dear supporters of the Circular Economy,

At the end of a very busy and fruitful - if sometimes challenging - year 2022, our Team at the Stakeholder Platform takes a break to relax and recharge.

Thank you for being there all along the way and helping us build a better future with more and more circular, nature-friendly and sustainable solutions! Your contributions to this website, participation to the Circular Talks, sharing on Twitter and Linkedin are making this work all the more rewarding for us.

We wish you to get a well-deserved rest and quality time with your families and dearest ones over this holiday period, and we hope to find you well in shape and recharged in 2023 for more circular discussions and breakthroughs!

Please note that the ECESP offices will be closed from 23^rd December 2022 till 2^nd January 2023 included.

See you next year!

The ECESP Team

During its 152nd plenary session on 30 November and 1 December 2022, the European Committee of the Regions adopted an opinion on the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles. This is available in 23 European languages.

The opinion was drawn up by Luca Menesini (IT/PES), President of the Province of Lucca, Tuscany.

A new European Commission publication shows how buildings professionals can contribute to the New European Bauhaus movement for sustainable living, inclusiveness and aesthetics with help from Level(s), the EU framework for sustainable buildings.