Circular Economy blooms through Citizen Involvement
Updated on 19.09.2023
CECI aims to raise awareness of the circular economy (CE) and highlight the importance of citizen engagement. It will inspire citizens to adopt sustainable consumption habits and behaviour patterns by promoting new sustainable services, e.g. sharing economy, lengthening product life cycles through reuse, repair, remanufacturing and refurbishment.
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CECI aims at transferring knowledge among regions to bring more relevant and efficient policies to promote citizen involvement in the circular and sharing economy.
Actions include interregional learning through thematic workshops and studies, round-table policy discussions and site visits. They will form the basis for sharing expertise and boost citizen dialogue on the local/regional levels. Sharing good practices will help to disseminate circular solutions and save resources across Europe.
As a result, the partner regions will develop action plans to translate gained knowledge of the citizens’ role in circular economy and new solutions. CECI will raise public awareness to create demand for sustainable services. Changes in consumption patterns will stimulate the development of circular economy business models, and will create new jobs.
Relevance for Circular Systemic Solutions
The project developed a guide for involving citizens in the circular economy.
The overarching themes of the guide are how to trigger citizen involvement and how to maintain it. The guide contains practical advice and examples/short case studies. It is a relevant material for local and regional authorities searching for advice and best practices for citizen involvement in the circular economy.
Responsible organisation and contact details
LAB University of Applied Sciences
Project consortium partners
- The Regional Council of Päijät-Häme
- Provence-Alpes-Côte-d‘Azur region
- MORAVSKOSLEZSKÉ INOVAČNÍ CENTRUM OSTRAVA
- Government of Aragon
- Business Agency Association
- City of Mechelen
- makesense
CEAP2 key product value chain
e.g. B2B services
e.g. healthcare
large 500 000-200 000, medium 200 000-50 000, and small cities 50 000-5 000
large metropolitan area >1.5 million, metropolitan area 1.5 million-500 000
e.g. commercial, residential, service, industrial
