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📣 Exciting Plans for #CircEUlar’s Stakeholder Engagement in 2025: https://lnkd.in/dheGt5ce As 2024 draws to a close, our partners T6 Ecosystems and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) have been busy planning next year’s #StakeholderEngagement activities which will further enrich the research tasks. Here’s what’s on the horizon: 🟠 Spring: Online sessions to explore and validate preliminary pathways, diving into #mobility, #infrastructure and rolling stock, #buildings, #digitalisation, and appliances and #waste. 🟠 Summer: Participatory backcasting workshop combining narrative insights and survey data to envision future scenarios. 🟠 Autumn: A stakeholder event in focusing on #UrbanPlanning, bringing together experts to refine our findings. 💡 These activities are designed to foster collaboration, gather critical feedback, and ensure that our results are practical, relevant, and forward-thinking!

♻️ Curious about how #Europe is advancing toward a #CircularEconomy? 👇 This new briefing from European Environment Agency dives into key facts and figures, using powerful indicators to highlight both achievements and areas for improvement. https://lnkd.in/g-BkQKCr

♻️ 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 #CircularBehavior. Over the past two years, #CircEUlar has collected data from over 5,000 households in Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Lithuania, and the United Kingdom to understand how circular people’s behavior currently is. Most people are: 🔸 willing to go without owning a car if good car sharing alternatives exist 🔸 unwilling to downsize their living space and move somewhere smaller 🔸 unlikely to try and influence others around them to behave more circularly 👉 Learn More: https://lnkd.in/dgyAxVPv . University of Groningen Environmental Psychology Groningen Isabel Pacheco CINEA - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency UKRI - Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge (IDC) State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform

💡 Our researchers Gamze Ünlü, Alessio Mastrucci, and @Volker Krey attended the 17th Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium (#IAMC) Annual Meeting, held 4-6 November 2024 in Seoul, South Korea, to share some of the latest findings from integrated modeling activities in the #CircEUlar project with the research community. 👉 Learn more about their contribution here: https://lnkd.in/dNAkRAU3

♻️ The #CircEUlar CMCC Foundation - Centro Euro Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici team is currently developing an online tool designed to empower businesses and individuals with actionable insights to promote the #CircularEconomy and reduce #ResourceUse: https://lnkd.in/dQFRQgpi 🎯 This tool will highlight the challenges and opportunities of #CircularStrategies feature over 50 categorized quotations collected during our interactive stakeholder workshop on September 17th in Groningen. These insights capture critical issues and real-world experiences from diverse stakeholders. 👉 We are excited to finalize this tool and share it with the community: Follow us for updates!

Understanding the size and spatial distribution of socio-economic material stocks is important to inform strategies aimed at more #SustainableRsourceManagement, a #CircularEconomy, as well as #ClimateChangeMitigation. To learn more about these topics, check out the webinar recording by our researcher Dominik Wiedenhofer for the journal ‘Resources, Conservation & Recycling’: https://lnkd.in/dYgXsJED . CINEA - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency UKRI - Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge (IDC) State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI

💡 As part of the process of developing a joint model to analyze #EnergyFlows & #MaterialStocks in urban areas, the #CircEUlar partner INEGI driving science & innovation has currently concluded the estimation of material stocks in both #buildings & #mobility infrastructure for one of its case studies, the city of Porto. 👉 Globally, the jointly analysis of the geographical patterns of materials intensities suggests that certain development patterns are more material-intensive, and represents an important insight for #UrbanPlanning as they can inform #CircularityStrategies to avoid the material lock-in of urban areas, with an important focus on design. Learn More: https://lnkd.in/dAXChHqp

A Path to #Decarbonising the EU’s #HeatingSector? 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 #CircularStrategy helping to achieve #GreenEnergy targets. Learn More: https://lnkd.in/d4sbeKGS

🔔 #CircEUlar has just released a new report on the impact of #Digitalisation through #BuildingInformationModelling (BIM) on the drive towards the #CircularEconomy and #NetZero in Europe. Based on a total of 41 interviews with industry professionals across 11 countries, it shows a picture of wide variety in the use of design tools and construction automation. The study was conducted by Martin Burgess at the Environmental Change Institute (ECI), University of Oxford and highlights that digitalisation will be critical in reducing lifecycle #Emissions in future. ➡️ For More Information: https://lnkd.in/dTiAb5td

📌 From September 16th to 18th, #CircEUlar had its third in-person consortium meeting hosted by the University of Groningen at the, very appropriately named, House of Connections. 𝗧𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘆-𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗘𝗨𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝟭𝟮 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴. 👥 The meeting was also an opportunity for T6 Ecosystems, University of Groningen and CircEUlar’s sister-project CIRCOMOD, to design, plan and deliver a stakeholder workshop, "Towards Net-Zero through a Circular Economy: the consumer and business perspectives". 👉 The partners have come away from Groningen 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲, 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱, 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. ➡️ Learn More: https://lnkd.in/dCMWf6P6 . #CircularEconomy #NetZero #NetZeroEmission #ClimateChange #Circularity #Transition #Defossilisation #CircularProduction #CircularConsumption #CircularTransformation #Digitalisation #Mobility #Climate #Energy #Mitigation #EnergyTransition #Decarbonisation #SustainableEconomy #Sustainability #Recycle #Recycling #OpenScience #HorizonProject #HorizonEU