By bringing together businesses, public administrations, knowledge centres and civil society, connecting knowledge and capabilities, mobilising projects and supporting partnerships, reN helps translate strategy into viable, collaborative and scalable initiatives.
reN aims to accelerate the transition towards a circular tourism system and generate knowledge and experience that can inspire other island and tourism destinations.
Vorarlberg's annual Environmental Festival is designed to produce as little waste as possible, to promote reuse and generally to familiarise people with the concepts of the circular economy without preaching about it.
People come for the festival experience but leave having learned why it's a good thing to donate what you don't need and not to produce extravagant amounts of waste!
Looking for projects developed by students from universities and vocational training centres across Europe!
Projects must demonstrate innovation in business models, products, services or industrial processes under circular economy criteria, and have real potential to develop new business opportunities.
The hospitality market is shaped by rising environmental awareness and changing guest expectations, meaning that sustainability is a business imperative. The Accor Group, a hospitality group with over 5800 hotels in 110+ countries, has decided to focus on earning the EU Ecolabel.
The Ibis Styles and Ibis Budget Brest Centre Port in France is its flagship venture in this area and an example of how a hotel can reduce consumption and increase efficiency.
This webinar will explain how the EU Ecolabel for tourist accommodation services guarantees environmental excellence, enhances visibility to consumers and guarantees compliance with new and forthcoming EU legislation on sustainability labels.
Find out how it can make these services more competitive!
This white paper provides one of the first action frameworks for the circular transition of the hospitality industry. It shows how circular strategies are both essential for the long-term wellbeing of the destinations, ecosystems and communities on which hospitality depends and a clear business imperative.
It identifies 10 key systemic barriers hindering progress, including the absence of a shared industry framework. In response, it focuses on 5 strategic opportunities through which circularity can help overcome these challenges: procurement, operations, built environment, business and guest culture, and destinations. To support wider adoption and scale impact, the paper also identifies 6 key enablers that can help unlock circularity across the whole value chain.
This event will bring together circular economy leaders, pioneers, practitioners, explorers and researchers across industries and supply chains to celebrate circularity.
Participants will share opportunities, good practices, real-life cases and lessons learned from implementing the circular economy.
The Achieving Circularity in Cities through Environmental Sustainability of Sports (ACCESS) project is holding its final project.
It will showcase results and achievements by the four participating countries and cities, the tools produced to unlock the potential for more environmentally-friendly sports and encourage uptake, replication and reinforcement of sustainable resource management and circular economy in cities and sports.
Come and find out about successful art-science interactions, discuss ways to promote research findings through art and culture, and engage with research and innovation stakeholders to foster the circular economy!
