Circulary is a web tool managed by BusinessEurope and its national members that contributes to the EU’s agenda on the circular economy.
It continuously brings new examples of innovative ways in which industry, SMEs and other business add to the circular economy in Europe. It highlights the regulatory and non-regulatory challenges these businesses still face in upscaling their current initiatives or starting new ones. The platform is a bottom-up, business-led hub of knowledge and expertise.
Businesses can flag up their circular initiatives and identify barriers to circularity in EU legislation. BusinessEurope will convey these views to EU policymakers.
Circulary also enables members to network and share experiences.
CIRCULÉIRE is Ireland’s National Platform for Circular Manufacturing. It aims to help deliver circular business model innovation by unlocking the value that resides in an Irish circular economy.
It is an industry-led public-private partnership with 25 Founding Industry Members (MNCs and SMEs alike) which aim to become circular economy exemplars in Ireland.
The platform has an innovation fund dedicated to implementing systems-level innovation demonstration projects. It has developed various tools to help businesses go circular: the Circular Economy Infographic, the Circular Maturity Model and the Circularity Action Plan.
CIRCULÉIRE has also set up the CE knowledge library, a collection of good practices.
The International Center for Resources and Innovation for Sustainable Development (CIRIDD in French) was set up in 2005. It aims to contribute to the emergence of new societal models which are more respectful of all living beings, future generations and the planet.
It promotes sustainable development, based on cooperation within organisations, regions and sectors, and its projects vary from local to international. It assists businesses, regions and industries as they shift to greener, more circular business models and strategies, helping them get to grips with the various impacts of their activities and promoting the product-as-a-service model.
Cirkelstad is a national platform connecting private entrepreneurs and policy-makers who are delivering the transition to a circular economy in pioneering Dutch cities.
In addition to a comprehensive database of good practices, research and policy guidelines to inspire practitioners, the Cirkelstad Academie also provides occasional training sessions and advisory services to aspiring circular projects in Utrecht and Amsterdam.
The Prague Circular Hub is a joint initiative by the Institut Cirkulární Ekonomiky, the Alliance for Renewable Energy and the Brno Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Its vision is to build a cultural and innovation centre which seeks to familiarise the general and professional public with the circular economy.
With discussions, seminars, conferences and pilot projects testing new research methods in the field of the circular economy, the Hub promotes the shift to a circular system.
The Hub has completed a Prague Circular Scan with the support of Circle Economy, and now it continues to organise regular ‘buzz talks’ and conduct research to promote the adoption of circular business models in the Czech capital.
The CirQuality OWL plus project is funded by the EU (ERDF) and the Federal State North-Rhine Westfalia with the aim of fostering the circular economy in the area of Eastern Westfalen-Lippe (OWL).
Several regional partners from different fields (from energy to technologies to food to universities and associations) have teamed up to use the circular economy to get the region off the ground in an innovative, crisis-proof, resilient and sustainable way. Together, they organise events and strive to meet the following goals:
Qualification of future specialists and managers for the circular economy
Circular Supply Chain Management Solutions (SSCM)
Turnaround to circular thinking and economics in the building sector
Waste and circular economy of the future in the OWL region.
Citeo is a non-profit active in the field of Extended Producer Responsibility relating to paper and packaging. It works to reduce its environmental impact.
Under the Environmental code, producers and distributers are responsible for - and must pay the costs of – dealing with the waste generated by the packaging used by their products. Companies can transfer their responsibility in this area in exchange for paying to join Citeo. The funds thus collected are used to finance the collection, sorting, recycling and reuse of packaging.
Members also have access to support from Citeo's experts, enabling them to apply eco-design principles to paper and packaging, inform their customers about the products' environmental characteristics and plan for the impact of French and European regulations.
The Upper Austrian Cleantech-Cluster brings together suppliers, manufacturers, industrial researchers, mechanical engineers, recyclers and disposers in order to find joint solutions and develop new technologies.
Focus areas:
Material efficiency in production
Recycling
Recovery
Disposal
Circular design
Business models
Initial and continuing education
Research
SERVICES:
Cross-sector networking with researchers, companies, associations (regional, national, international)
Project development
Project management
Process support through conception, moderation of workshops, work meetings, events
The Conseil Européen de Remanufacture represents small and large businesses from all remanufactured product sectors.
It aims to triple the value of Europe’s remanufacturing sector (including automotive, aviation, acoustic devices, agricultural, construction, electrical and IT imaging equipment, defense and electronics) to EUR 100 billion by 2030.
Open to participation with universities in Horizon and similar EU-funded research programmes, it has access to several experienced technical research staff. With links to WEF, OECD, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, UNEP, it is well connected to standards organisations and academic researchers in the fields of circular design, eco-design, product life extension, IR4.0 and digital.
CONTINUED is a circular e-commerce platform for fashion.
It was launched in 2017 with the aim of creating a generic software solution for circular consumption in the fashion industry. Recirculating clothes is up to 3000% more efficient than reusing material in reducing the fashion industry's environmental footprint.
The platform connects up brands and consumers. It offers dashboard tools for Sales, Inventory, Finance and Impact, as well as a Webshop back-end supporting several rent/resale models, account management and payment.
CONTINUED is fashion as a service and sustainability as a product. It lets brands explore future business opportunities based on the circular economy while carrying out existing business activities.
