Shaping the Future: CircEUlar’s Stakeholder Engagement 2025
As 2024 draws to a close, our partner T6 Ecosystems and IIASA have been busy planning next year’s stakeholder engagement activities which will further enrich the research tasks.
How circular is people’s behavior across Europe?
Mobility, housing behaviour, and efforts to influence others to be more circular are some of the most tangible ways to observe circular behavior. Over the past two years, the CircEUlar team has collected data from over 5,000 households in five European countries to understand how circular people’s behavior currently is.
CircEUlar researchers contribute with novel research to Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium Annual Meeting 2024
Researchers Gamze Ünlü, Alessio Mastrucci, and Volker Krey shared some of the latest findings from integrated modeling activities in the CircEUlar project with the research community.
Development of the CircEUlar online tool: Practical challenges encountered by enterprises involved in the Circular Economy
The CMCC team is currently developing an online tool aimed at businesses and anyone interested in understanding what actions companies can take to boost the circular economy and reduce resource use.
Webinar on ‘Mapping material stocks of buildings and infrastructure around the world‘
Understanding the size and spatial distribution of socio-economic material stocks is important to inform strategies aimed at more sustainable resource management, a circular economy, as well as climate change mitigation.
Mapping material intensities at neighborhood scale
As part of the process of developing a joint model to analyze energy flows and material stocks in urban areas, INEGI has currently concluded the estimation of material stocks in both buildings and mobility infrastructure for one of its case studies, the city of Porto.
Joint Event of CircoMod, CircEUlar and EEA – the role of modelling in progressing the circular economy
The event provided the CircEUlar team with a lot of good insights on the next steps for ensuring further feedback loop mechanisms between academic researchers and policy officers so that modelling can facilitate the circular economy as a means of supporting the Climate Agenda.
Repurposing Natural Gas Pipelines: A Path to Decarbonizing the EU’s Heating Sector?
Repurposing obsolete steel pipelines shows significant potential to reduce the environmental burden of district heating networks, transform obsolete infrastructure into an essential part of the transition, and introduces an additional circular strategy helping to achieve green energy targets.
Digitalisation of Building Design and Construction and its impact on the Circular Economy and Net Zero: final report released.
Based on a total of 41 interviews with industry professionals across 11 countries, the new report shows a picture of wide variety in the use of design tools and construction automation,
Bridging business practices and consumer behaviours in circularity: Collaborative working in action and stakeholder workshop
Twenty-eight CircEUlar members from across 12 research organisations met over three days of collaborative working. Partners have come away from Groningen energised and looking forward to continuing the collaborative working.