The CIREVALC Circular Marketplace

This platform brings together businesses, municipalities, NGOs and innovators working to make food, catering and packaging value chains more circular across Central Europe.

By joining, you can:

• Present your products, services or reusable/secondary materials
• Access a regional map showing local pioneers and cooperation opportunities
• Connect to partners who need what you offer — or offer what you need
• Become part of a wider Circular Community Accelerator supporting skills, knowledge and collaboration

Reduce waste, discover new partnerships and unlock circular business potential.

Facts
Nearly ten percent of all food produced for consumers goes to waste in Europe. Circular economy could help prevent much of that waste but businesses and regional planners often do not know how to introduce them. The project CIREVALC helps them to make regional value chains in the food, catering and packaging sectors more circular through a community approach. The partners jointly design and test a new accelerator tool that will facilitate the green transition of businesses and local communities.

Our goals
CIREVALC aims at introducing and upscaling circular economy models in regional value chains in the food, catering and packaging sectors through community building, strengthening circular economy skills of enterprises, non-business entities and local communities and through improving policy learning. Our project helps to solve the challenges of low awareness, low engagement, non-receptive communities towards the application of circular economy models, lack of skills and knowledge and lack of or inefficient use of tools, and also low uptake of solutions, lack of bespoke private and public measures. In our project regional development agencies, sectorial agencies, business support organisations work together spanning across nine member states. We started with community building through awareness raising and mobilising stakeholders and through looking into the obstacles and drivers of using circular solutions in the food, catering and packaging sectors. We have designed and launched our CIREVALC Circular Community Accelerator, a complex tool that facilitates the green transition of local pioneers, SMEs, local communities. We test and evaluate our solution in a pilot action in the regions through involving local pioneers. We will connect communities and we invite third parties to join our initiative, the CIREVALC Accelerator Network. Building on our CIREVALC Strategy and formulating and starting implementing regional action plans and the CIREVALC CE level action plan we improve related policy instruments in our regions. As a result, we expect improved capacities and increased level of knowledge in our target groups. Furthermore, we expect to see substantial improvement in terms of exploiting potentials of circular economy practices in the food, catering and packaging sectors in our regions.