The Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking is a €2 billion partnership between the EU and the Bio-based Industries Consortium that funds projects advancing competitive circular bio-based industries in Europe.
See the details of the new call for project proposals!
Scaling circular business models will help the EU achieve its objectives of competitiveness, circularity, resource security and resilience. However, these models have yet to be taken up widely across Europe.
Circular business models can be scaled in three main ways: scaling out (expanding customer numbers); scaling up (influencing structural conditions to support broader adoption); and scaling deep (inducing cultural and behavioural shifts).
Critical thresholds to scaling can be identified: a minimal viable scale; a niche scale; and a transformation point.
There are five key enablers for scaling: regulation and other policies; technological innovation; finance and insurance; social innovation and behavioural change; and supply-chain and ecosystem collaboration.
This is the fourth edition of the strategic environmental monitoring reports that the Basque Ecodesign Center produces based on the knowledge acquired through its monitoring system.
The report compiles the latest regulatory and market developments driving the transition towards a decarbonised, more circular economy and explores how they are relevant to the value chains in which the Basque Ecodesign Center’s partner companies operate.
It identifies new standards and recognised methodologies that are relevant to those chains and identifies ten key challenges for the circular economy for 2026, such as security of supply and self sufficiency of materials as keys to competitiveness and circularity in the new geopolitical context.
This conference will focus on how circular ideas can be turned into economically viable, environmentally effective and socially beneficial business models under real-world conditions.
It will bring together strategic, operational and systemic perspectives on the circular economy and bioeconomy.
EIT Jumpstarter is a seven-month pre-acceleration programme for early-stage innovators in 22+ countries. It's designed to turn ideas into successful businesses through training, mentoring and funding.
Fields include innovative solutions for recovering and reusing materials from secondary sources to support a circular economy. Apply by 8 May!
The CCRI hands-on online workshops will focus on a key implementation challenge identified in the CCRI communities of practice. They will translate those insights into practical tools, methods and examples that participants can apply in their own context.
This session is based on the community of practice Supporting local circular businesses. It will focus on designing support measures for circular businesses that work in practice.
Cities and regions across Europe are facing similar challenges - at different stages and in different contexts - when implementing the circular transition. Over the past year, CCRI communities of practice have brought practitioners together to openly share what works, what doesn’t, and where they get stuck.
This CCRI online workshop series builds directly on these insights, turning peer exchange into practical, hands-on sessions designed to help you move from ambition to concrete actions - no matter where you are in your transition.
The Rethinking Materials Summit will bring together brands, innovators, investors and policymakers to explore the next frontier of materials innovation.
It is an opportunity for targeted networking, curated deal flow, live pitches and fresh tech discovery across the value chain.
Global Gateway is the EU's strategy to boost smart, clean and secure connections in digital, energy and transport sectors, and to strengthen health, education and research systems across the world.
This session will explore how to promote innovative technologies, business models and strategies for scaling up Global Gateway investments in the circular economy, including waste management, in the Latin American and Caribbean region.
