Topics
We organise our actions in six thematic & strategic agendas:
Strategic Agendas:
Bio-economy
Circular Construction
Chemicals/Plastics
Manufacturing Industry
Food Chain
Water Cycles
Seven leverages provide additional support:
Leverage effects:
Lever Policy Instruments
Lever Circular Procurement
Lever Communication
Lever Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Lever Financing
Lever Jobs & Skills
Lever Research
What, why and how?
Why are we pursuing a circular economy?
Future visions 2050
How do we see our circular future?
About our management
Who steers what at Flanders Circular?
Interreg North Sea Region Project ProCirc
After closing the Flemish Green Deal Circular Procurement, Flanders is looking towards the future and across boundries. Circular Flanders is a partner in the Interreg North Sea Region project ProCirc. Equiped with the lessons learned from the GDCP, we continue to learn, experiment and exchange in this European context.
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Public and private procurers have trong leverage to stimulate the circular economy. By increasing the demand, they are able to grow the market for circular suppliers. This greates room for new business models and innovation for the suppliers and their entire supply chain. This is key in reducing CO2 reduction and drastically reducing the use of virgin materials. The Interreg North Sea Region ProCirc project partners wil work together on circular procument through three strategies. Over 30 pilots will be set up internationally for various sectors. Each of these experiments will aim at a decrease of at least 20% in use of virgin materials, waste and CO2 emission. This will allow to test new ways of circular procurement in practice.
Furthermore, exchange of knowledge and experience between the partner regions is an important goal. A circular procurement toolbox, minimum circular requierements and a transnational implementation roadmap wil be created. This will allow for harmonisation and upscaling across borders. International, sectorspecific communities of practice will be set up between buyers and suppliers. These will facilitate sharing insights and tools and implementing circular sollutions. The output and lessons learned from the ProCirc project will stimulate circular procurement and the circular economy in our North Sea region. We aim to apply circular opportunies and contribute to the international development in circular economy.
Sparked interest?
Would you like to take part in this project with a pilot project or do you want to be kept informed?
Send your contact details to Melody Van den Acker.
Timing
The ProCirc project runs from December 2018 until June 2022.
Partners from the North Sea Region
Rijkswaterstaat (NL), Vlaanderen Circulair powered by OVAM (BE), Business in the Community (SC), Netværk for Bæredygtig Erhvervsudvikling (DK), Kamp C (BE), Direktoratet for forvaltning og ikt (NO), Kolding Kommune NordDanmark (DK), ACR Plus (BE), CLEAN (DK), City of Malmo (SE) and Zero Waste Scotland (SC).
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