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In 2022, the EU’s circular material use rate reached 11.5%. This means that 11.5% of material resources used in the EU came from recycled waste materials.

"Premio Impresa Ambiente" is the highest Italian award for companies and public and private bodies that have made an innovative contribution to processes, systems, partnerships, technologies and products furthering sustainable and circular development. Apply by 16 December 2023!

A newly launched report by the Norwegian Climate Committee 2050 (available in Norwegian) provides a comprehensive analysis of the challenges Norway faces in meeting its climate targets, highlighting problem areas such as consumption, emissions and biodiversity. It shines a spotlight on a significant gap between stated ambitions in current climate policies and the measures actually adopted.

To bridge this gap, the report makes several key recommendations (available in English), including outlining the role that the circular economy plays in solving the climate crisis.

As part of the new EU-funded Circular Economy project, the Green Growth Knowledge Partnership aims to establish a community of practice for organisations involved in circular economy activities. If you would like to participate, please complete this 3-minute survey. 

The Biomodel4Regions project, with the help of ICLEI Europe, is looking for two regions or clusters in Northern, Mediterranean, Eastern or Central-Western Europe keen to develop their own bio-based economy strategy covering agri-food, forestry, shellfish or Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste (OFMSW).

Interested regions can apply up until 1 December 2023.

On 6 November 2023, Arthur ten Wolde, ECESP Coordination Group member and Executive Director of  Ecopreneur.eu, represented the Platform at a G7-B7 online meeting on Circular Economy and Resource Efficiency Principles. Mr Ten Wolde has been a member of the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform since its foundation in 2017.

The meeting was organised as part of the G7 Sapporo Ministers’ Meeting on Climate, Energy and the Environment in Japan. The Group of Seven (G7) is an intergovernmental political forum consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, the USA and the EU. The Business7 group (B7) is the G7 platform for dialogue with the international business community, consisting of the industry and employers’ associations from the G7 including BusinessEurope.

This series of webinars - each aimed at a specific target audience and hosted by BUILD UP - will highlight how different stakeholders could join forces to reskill and upskill the building sector workforce with circular skills by highlighting the main takeaways and outcomes of the EU-funded project BUS-GoCircular.

ECO-FUTURE is a 24-month school education cooperation partnership aiming to create an effective programme for teachers to educate children on the circular economy. The project was inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic, which highlighted the need to re-evaluate and redesign current methods and systems.

The project seeks to get students, schools and communities interested in sustainability, encouraging them to act responsibly at individual, community and global level, now and in the future.

A training course is being organised in Vantaa, Finland from 30 October to 3 November. It's designed for over 15 teachers from Finland, Italy and The Republic of North Macedonia.

EcoeFISHent, a cluster involving several actors belonging to different sectors and organization types, is working on developing both a coating for food packaging using gelatine extracted from fish processing side-streams and packaging for cosmetics from the polyethylene recovered from fishing nets.