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.
The COOPID Interactive Platform aims to promote the circular bioeconomy. It focuses on interactive resources to boost the bioeconomy across the EU agri-food sector. It benefits EU primary sector producers and stakeholders interested in learning about, participating in and benefiting from the bioeconomy.
Users can find:
primary sector organisations active in the bioeconomy and primary producers (COOPID ambassadors) working to implement the bioeconomy in their agri-food sector businesses
organisations from the EU primary sector setting out examples of circular agri-food business models, with videos, brochures and descriptions of their production systems and business activities in several languages
The Circular Plastics Alliance aims to boost the EU market for recycled plastics.
It covers the full plastics value chains and includes over 330 organisations representing industry, academia and public authorities. It is open to all public and private actors from European plastics value chains that are ready to contribute to delivering on the alliance's declaration, specifically that by 2025 at least 10 million tonnes of recycled plastics should find their way into products and packaging in Europe each year.
Companies and business associations are encouraged to submit voluntary pledges on recycled polymer(s) to be produced or used by their organisation by 2025.
C2C NGO aims to speed up the deployment of the Cradle to Cradle concept.
It encourages organisations and individuals to rethink and transform, and brings business, science, education, politics, culture and civil society together. It carries its message to all parts of society and is active in public debate.
It has volunteers throughout Germany, who advocate for the idea of Cradle to Cradle. Its Congress is the world’s largest C2C platform: every year, over 1 000 participants from the C2C community meet there with key figures from science, business and politics. Forums, lectures and workshops are an opportunity to discuss matters and network.
Its C2C LAB equips people with the knowledge and tools needed to design products, buildings and systems that are healthy for people and the environment.
Cradlenet aims to accelerate Sweden's transition to a circular economy and is Sweden's platform for circular knowledge and networking.
It supports companies and organisations as they go circular by offering members advisory services, market intelligence, studies, visibility, education, seminars and networking opportunities locally and nationally, as well as at Nordic level.
It participates in national projects aiming to increase knowledge and develop tools or networking opportunities on the circular economy. It has produced a report and toolbox helping companies transition to a Product-as-a-Service (PaaS) business model and works with political institutions to speed up the transition to circular economy.
CRE is an association representing the chemical recycling industry. It aims to promote and support the implementation of innovative chemical recycling technologies, boosting the circular economy for plastics.
Priorities:
Provide sustainable solutions to overcome the current challenges of recycling processes.
Protect nature by transforming plastic waste into a valuable resources.
Endlessly recycle plastic waste by transforming it back into its components or other products.
Save CO2 emissions and reduce the carbon footprint of our industry.
Reduce landfilling by offering sustainable end-of-life options for all plastic waste.
Chemical recycling technologies play a key role in supporting the transition towards a more sustainable and circular economy in Europe.
The Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP) is an international, non-profit think-and-do tank that works with businesses, policy makers, partner organisations and civil society to deliver a good life for all. They are experts in sustainable solutions and aim to mainstream sustainability.
CSCP is active in fields such as social innovation, sustainable product portfolio and footprint assessments. It provides policy advisory services rooted in scientific research and hands-on experience, and develops focused research and evaluation through real-time prototype testing in a holistic living lab format. It also conducts training and capacity building.
The Danube Goes Circular is a platform set up under the Interreg MOVECO project which ran from December 2016 to August 2019. The platform aims to promote awareness of and engagement in the circular economy, and involves sixteen partners from the ten Danube countries.
There is a marketplace for reusable materials, designed to match up supply and demand for waste and reusable materials and products meet in order to foster eco-innovation in the Danube region.
The platform provides information on how to extend a product’s useful lifecycle as well as on legal requirements and corporate good practices linked to the promotion of the circular economy. The toolbox section includes fact sheets for SMEs.
