Circular economy

A student team presents a car made almost entirely out of waste.

An international exhibition with an innovative format that brings together all sectors of the circular economy in a single platform: from material and energy recovery to sustainable development.

Join us for the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Conference, the main event for circular economy in Europe!

An article by former European Commissioner Janez Potočnik.

The genesis and implementation of transformative roadmaps towards a circular bioeconomy, showcasing regional action, emphasising approaches and experiences in overcoming critical barriers to change, will be explored.

The theme the of EU Green Week 2020 is nature and biodiversity. After the adoption of a new EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 in May, Green Week will highlight the contribution biodiversity can make to society and the economy, and the role it can play in supporting and stimulating recovery in a post-pandemic world, bringing jobs and sustainable growth.

The 2020 Forum will take stock of the unprecedented challenging situation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and its strong socio-economic impact on the outermost regions. It will discuss these regions’ post Covid-19 needs, and identify recovery solutions at European, national or regional level to deliver a targeted response to the crisis, focusing on the most impacted sectors, such as tourism, transport, employment and agriculture.

The European Circular Cities Declaration is designed to help accelerate the transition from a linear to a circular economy in Europe, and thereby create a resource-efficient, low-carbon and socially responsible society.

The new fund provides equity investment to innovative growth-stage bioeconomy and circular bioeconomy companies and projects. The ECBF aims to fill an important financing gap in this area by mobilising public and private investments to scale up innovative bio-based companies and projects with high potential for innovation and excellence.

The WCBEF is a think-tank initiative which provides a platform for key stakeholders of the Circular Bioeconomy to share ideas and promote bio-based responsible innovations to replace and supersede non-renewable based industries, products and services to achieve a more sustainable economy while mitigating climate change.

The program consists of 4 sessions: Regulators and Climate Change, Global Leaders and Financial World, Bioproducts around us, Looking to the Future.

Detailing the elements of the project, presenting the objectives and outputs.

BIOEASTsUP Project is organising online webinar series “Advancing Sustainable Circular Bioeconomy in Central and Eastern European Countries”, where an overview of the BIOEAST initiative and its supporting project BIOEASTsUP will be presented.

EIT Climate-KIC’s ‘Extraordinary Post COVID-19 Regeneration Call 2020’ will select projects and programmes with the potential to restructure and regenerate our economies in the wake of the pandemic and in anticipation of future climate, ecological and health crises. Proposed activities must deliver clear outputs by the end of 2020.

The European Committee of the Regions' ENVE Commission has launched an online stakeholders' consultation with the purpose of gathering input for its upcoming opinion on the new Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP) which was published on the 11th of March 2020 by the European Commission (EC) as part of the European Green Deal.

The European Commission has adopted a new Circular Economy Action Plan - one of the main blocks of the European Green Deal, Europe’s new agenda for sustainable growth.

Today, the European Commission adopted a new Circular Economy Action Plan - one of the main building blocks of the European Green Deal, Europe's new agenda for sustainable growth.

The waste of the grapes after the harvest is used to produce cosmetics and healthy products. This project brings together winegrowers, researchers and entrepreneurs from several Mediterranean countries.