Apply for the Green Skills Award! 

The European Training Foundation has launched the fifth Green Skills Award, an annual competition designed to provide ideas and inspiration for policy makers and practitioners on how things can be done when it comes to green skills deployment and promoting sustainability. For the first time, there will be a special award in support of the #ForOurPlanet campaign based on alignment with circular economy principles, inspirational capacity and local dimension. Apply by 7 March! 

WCEF2025: the programme has been released!

The World Circular Economy Forum is one of the biggest circular events of the year. WCEF2025 will take place in São Paulo, Brazil on 13-16 May under the heading Tropical solutions for sustainable growth! The programme has now been released, with a rich selection of plenaries and parallel sessions on 13–14 May. 

EU Green Week 2025: Circular solutions for a competitive EU

Europe’s leading environmental conference will take place in Brussels on 3-5 June. This year’s EU Green Week will unpack the “three Cs” – Clean, Competitive & Circular – and explore how to put circularity at the centre of our economic transition. The conference will be an opportunity for knowledge sharing, alliance building and awareness raising about the potential of a circular economy. 

The Basque Country's Clean Technologies List: promoting the circular economy and the energy transition 

The Basque Country's government has approved the Clean Technologies List, 64 clean technologies eligible for tax deductions amounting to 30% of the investment. The goal is to make production processes more efficient by using equipment with a high environmental performance and so accelerate the climate and circular transition of SMEs in the Basque Country.

The Circular City Centre - C3 webinar: Circular consumption in cities 

The Circular City Centre - C3 is a competence and resource centre which supports EU cities in their circular economy transition. This webinar on 20 February will present C3's new guidance document on Circular consumption in cities, highlighting how cities can facilitate access to, promote and incentivise more circular consumption options, and the Circular City Advisory and Circular Project Advisory programmes.

Closing the Loop: Circular Packaging and Company Study Cases

The ERASMUS+ CIRCVET project on Circular economy practical training materials for plastics manufacturing industries is organising a workshop on 19 February which will present the project and the e-learning platform and share interesting corporate case studies.

Fédération de la Mode Circulaire: release of their EU Manifesto for Circular Fashion

The Fédération de la Mode Circulaire (Circular Fashion Federation) is organising an event on 20 February which will mark a milestone in their journey towards sustainable fashion: the release of their EU Manifesto for Circular Fashion.

Circular Thinking in Procurement: The Role of Training & Mindset Shifts

This webinar will take place on 7 March. It will delve into value chain collaboration initiated by procurement and the role of peer-to-peer learning networks in promoting circular procurement. It will also emphasise the importance of training and fostering a shift in mindset. 

The Circular Economy in Berlin, Germany

This OECD Regional Development Paper looks at challenges holding back progress on the circular economy, including policy coherence, and provides recommendations to accelerate the transition.

Journal on Circular Economy: Spinning a Circular Future

An initiative by the International Council for Circular Economy (ICCE), the journal explores various dimensions of the circular economy, including policy frameworks that support sustainable practices. The January 2025 edition features an article by Freek van Eijk from Holland Circular Hotspot, one of the ECESP Coordination Group co-chairs.

Circularity in Action: Recommendations for the Operationalization of the Circular Economy in Romania

A year of in-depth consultations and workshops (2023-2024) involving Romanian experts from the public and private sectors resulted in a guide setting out operational actions and recommendations for Romania's circular economy transition.

Re:inventex: mechanical textile waste recycling in Ukraine

Re:inventex is carrying out a project for the recycling of post-industrial and pre-consumer textile waste. It is essentially the first pilot project in Ukraine to create a modern infrastructure for the collection, sorting and recycling of textile waste. 

Revivack: promoting the circular economy by enabling efficient product recovery

Revivack has set up the world's first system based on blockchain technology that facilitates the individual return of unwanted items to the manufacturer (or qualified entities). 

Le Marché: using fibres from agricultural waste and recycled textiles to make clothing

Le Marché is based in Pakistan and active throughout South Asia, with partners in Germany, France, the UK and the US. It has a two-pronged approach: it collects textile waste and recycles it for use as a secondary raw material, and it uses fibres made from hemp, banana and pineapple waste. 

RedGirraffe ESG Horizon: A comprehensive solution for Scope 3 emissions and circular economy goals

This innovative platform offers an advanced and scalable model for emissions tracking, designed to capture corporate data with exceptional granularity.

Standardization Roadmap Circular Economy

This roadmap aims to provide an overview of the status quo of standardization in the field of the circular economy, to describe the requirements and challenges for seven key topics, and to identify possible needs for future standards and specifications. 

Threads of Change

Threads of Change is a new platform created by Humana People to People that highlights the transformative role of the second-hand clothing industry in fostering sustainability, economic growth and social equity.  

Circular Ambassador Programme: train-the-trainers session

The Circular Ambassador Programme trains people to become circular ambassadors. The organisers are now laying on a train-the-trainers session on 25 April and 6 May, with an in-person bootcamp on 12-16 May. It is geared to people who already hold courses on sustainability or circularity, design educational programmes or want to expand into the circular economy. 

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