EURADA is a partner of a new European project – K-CCRI –, launched in January 2024, that aims to set up a knowledge hub to help cities and regions in their transition towards a more circular economy.
K-CCRI comes as part of the European Union’s efforts to bring together research and innovation projects that share the same vision over climate change, pollution, soil consumption, and loss of biodiversity. According to the recently published 2024 Circular Gap Report, the global economy is only 7.2% circular today, and the trend is downwards. The transition to a circular economy has become a central feature of the EU’s policy agenda to reach the objectives of the European Green Deal. However, the transition is slow, and big differences exist across member states and sectors. Although some of these are already experiencing circular economy solutions, many practices are still limited in scale, depth, and speed of adoption.
The project is coordinated by Kveloce, an international consultancy firm specialising in research, development, and innovation. The overall aim is to make the European Commission’s Circular Cities and Regions Initiative (CCRI), the cornerstone of the EU’s 2020 Circular Economy Action Plan, have a greater impact. More specifically, the project’s goal is to overcome technical, policy, knowledge, and business barriers to the adoption of the circular economy. Easy access to systematised workable knowledge, tailored mentoring, and awareness-raising are the three principles on which K-CCRI bases its action.
K-CCRI’s consortium of 11 partners seeks to achieve these goals by enlarging the stakeholder network and bringing together the knowledge and critical mass already developed. This will involve the project partners working closely with the Circular Cities and Regions Initiative.
EURADA is already a partner of two CCRI projects, Agro2Circular and FRONTSH1P, and we look forward to sharing the knowledge gained and engaging our members to support their territories in their efforts to become more circular.
