The Coordination Group (CG) is a key component of the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform. Its members come from a broad spectrum of organisations and are responsible for enabling and implementing the Platform’s vision and activities. The mandate of the current CG will end in October 2025.
With a view to the future CG, the European Commission has published a call for proposals under the LIFE Programme for the Environment and Climate Action. The call will fund a project intended to strengthen the CG’s role in advancing the transition to a circular economy, including circular business models.
The European Commission's Directorate-General for Environment will hold an information session for potential applicants on Monday 8 July at 10:00 – 12:00 CEST.
The PREVENT Waste Alliance is currently looking for applications for the Innovate2PREVENT innovation contest. Innovate2PREVENT aims to inspire and mobilise creative minds from around the world to develop innovative circular solutions in the areas of
reuse, refurbishment and repair of electrical and electronic equipment
plastic waste prevention, and
supporting circularity through digital, interoperable and data-driven solutions.
The EU grants for projects to reduce consumer food waste have been launched. The call for proposals is open to all interested stakeholders, with a deadline to apply by 25 September 2024.
The Single Market Programme grants are managed by the European Commission in collaboration with the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA).
The aim of the call is to support stakeholders in their actions to prevent and reduce the amount of food waste generated at consumer level.
The European Commission has announced a EUR 40 million investment in the SWITCH to Circular Economy in East and Southern Africa (SWITCH-2-CE in ESA) programme.
This programme aims to advance circularity in Eastern and Southern African countries as they shift from a linear to a circular economy. It will do so by creating an enabling environment for investment in circular business models and improving access to the necessary skills and finance.
The UNECE Regional Conference on the Circular Economy will take place on 26 June at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The Conference is held under the auspices of UNECE’s regional knowledge-sharing network, Circular STEP.
The BUILD-LIMONENE initiative is working on additives and biodegradable materials with a lower carbon footprint that can be used in the construction industry and become viable alternatives to the fossil-based materials currently available.
This new technology will contribute to the recovery of waste by using citrus peels and CO2 emissions.
The initiative will help circular economy projects overcome the challenges related to development and investment readiness. It will bring local governments, investors, Project Development Assistance providers and external service providers together with CircularInvest and DEFINITE-CCRI project owners and SMEs to foster the exchange of expertise, pinpoint opportunities and generate momentum.
Basically, it will advance circular economy objectives by facilitating the development of financeable, high-impact, low-risk circular projects.
By registering, you will be part of the network mailing list and invited to all future information sessions.
The European community PACCT for Sustainability (Product-as-a-service to Accelerate Cooperation and Circular Transformation) will host a new webinar on 16 May 2024 (from 10:30 to 12:00 CEST) dedicated to Circular Light-as-a-Service and the links with environmental impacts & financing. Participants to the workshop will be able to interact with BASE, CHG Meridian and ETAP, who will be sharing their experience in operating product-as-a-service models.
Stakeholder engagement is crucial for organisations to understand, address and balance the interests and expectations of various stakeholders.
In this webinar, HOOP experts will present strategies to help cities and regions engage stakeholders in the urban bioeconomy, and tools to bring people into the decision-making process.
There is a growing demand for circular bioeconomy solutions, but many factors curb the development of concrete projects.
In this webinar HOOP experts will share lessons learnt from providing Project Development Assistance (PDA) to 8 cities and regions, and present tools to empower financial investments in circular bioeconomy.