Save the date: Europe’s leading environmental conference takes place in Brussels on 3-5 June.

Competitiveness is at the heart of the EU’s agenda. This spring, a ‘Competitiveness Compass’ and the ‘Clean Industrial Deal’ will provide new direction and impetus. With its potential to drive sustainable competitiveness, reduce waste, increase strategic autonomy and promote innovation, circular economy offers solutions to some of the EU’s most pressing challenges.

This year’s Green Week will unpack the “three Cs” - Clean, Competitive & Circular – exploring how to put circularity at the centre of our economic transition. The conference will enable knowledge sharing, building of alliances, and awareness raising about the potential of a circular economy.

On 3-4 June, the conference will feature high-level debates on policy aspects of circular economy. On 5 June, in-depth discussions among stakeholders will focus on unleashing the circular economy’s potential for a competitive and resource-efficient Europe.

Registration will open at the end of April 2025 on this website.

A wider shift to circular models of production and consumption requires broad-based engagement. In 2025, the Green Week is therefore organised in partnership with the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform and the European Circular Cities and Regions Initiative.

Pencil in 10 April for an ECESP warm-up event with circular economy stakeholders, hosted at the European Economic and Social Committee, to feed into the EU Green Week.

Green Week partner events

Throughout June, GW partner events will take the conversation on circularity to local and regional levels, engaging businesses, individuals, and communities across Europe and beyond.

Application for partner events will be open between 3-21 March 2025. The guidelines on how to engage citizens through debates, festivals, workshops, seminars, project visits, and other ways of discovering the potential of circular economy will be available in early February.

Background

For 25 years, the EU Green Week, organised by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Environment, has been Europe’s leading environmental conference; an annual opportunity to raise awareness, promote and discuss the latest and upcoming developments in European environmental policy. The high-level event attracts policymakers, businesses, leading environmentalists, and other interested parties from across Europe and the world. For the previous editions of the Green Week, please visit here.

The European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform is a joint initiative by the European Commission and the European Economic and Social Committee. It brings together stakeholders active in the broad field of the circular economy in Europe.

The Circular Cities and Regions Initiative (CCRI) focuses on implementing the circular economy across Europe’s cities and regions. It has been launched and funded by the EU as part of the Circular Economy Action Plan.