The Belgian federal and regional governments are exploring the launch of an Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) in the field of circular and advanced materials.
This call for expressions of interest aims to identify companies in Flanders and Wallonia active in this field that wish to participate in innovation projects through partnerships across the European value chain.
The Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking is a €2 billion partnership between the EU and the Bio-based Industries Consortium.
It has just issued a call for project proposals. A total of €170.7 million across 13 topics will support the development and scale-up of competitive circular bio-based industries in Europe.
KAVA Call 14 - RIS Innovation is looking for projects developing new technologies, products, services or business models in the raw materials value chain.
The projects must focus on exploration, sustainable mining, processing, circularity, recycling or substitution.
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. Suitable 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.
