This Open Access textbook aims to educate students and professionals on how to develop business models that positively impact people, society, and the social and ecological environment.
It explores a different view on how to organise value creation, shifting from an almost exclusively monetary focus to one that creates a positive impact across multiple values.
A practical executive checklist for assessing whether supplier evidence from Brazil can be translated into buyer-readable documentation for European procurement, compliance and board-level review.
The HEREWEAR HUB is a collection of 40+ resources intended to help anyone gain the skills and find information and contacts to become part of the biobased, local and circular textile and clothing ecosystem.
The First Circular Business Move – Roadmap is a practical set of canvases designed to help organisations move from early circular action to intentional, long-term change.
By completing this roadmap, you will have a shared and realistic circular ambition. Perfect for small and medium-sized businesses as well as larger organisations.
The InvestCEC project aimed to bridge the gap between local action and EU-wide ambition, offering investment readiness support and raising a fund to enable public/private partnerships.
It produced five factsheets setting out guides and replication materials developed by the project.
The DEFINITE-CCRI Circularity Tool is designed to enable project leads to evaluate their own ventures, learn the necessary steps to bring it to bankability and understand how best to approach investors for capital deployment.
There is also a guidebook if you prefer a text version to the online tool.
ASF is a methodology developed for the sustainability assessment of additive use throughout the lifecycle of PVC articles. It is a replicable, risk-based methodology that integrates different types of quantitative and qualitative knowledge, including environmental and lifecycle process management dimensions.
The European Investment Fund is a specialist provider of risk finance for small and medium-sized enterprises across Europe.
It provides financial resources via intermediaries, such as banks and micro-credit providers, and its targets areas include circular economy infrastructure and the bioeconomy.
Initiated by the European Investment Bank, the European Circular Bioeconomy Fund is the first private venture capital impact fund exclusively dedicated to the (circular-) bioeconomy.
It aims to speed up the shift from a fossil-based to a circular bio-based economy and contribute to achieving the European Green Deal goals to make Europe climate neutral by 2050.
The Circular City Funding Guide shares knowledge, best practices and information on circular solutions, and on ways to finance the preparation and implementation of such solutions.
It covers grant and subsidy types of financial support, along with different types and sources of financing such as debt, equity and guarantees.
