Circular Procurement: Accelerate circular economy through procurement power, alliance- and capacity building.

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB North Sea

Date of latest update: 2024-09-11

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Description (EN):

The circular economy is key to solving the NSR’s waste crisis and the rising cost of new materials. Circular procurement is an effective pathway to achieve this, with NSR governments spending 14% of their GDP through public procurement (€1.9 trillion annually) i.e. providing an direct opportunity to invest in the circular economy. CircPro will reduce the use of raw materials, help to close material, product loops in sectors such as construction and infrastructure, furniture and ICT.The challenge is that procurement practices are linear by nature and not conducive to circular solutions. Procurement agencies are responsible for buying products, but usually not involved in how materials and resources are used or disposed of. CircPro brings together 8 public and 3 private sector organisations that will leverage 30 plus circular procurement pilots with a combined value of €40M to address this. Each pilot aims to reduce 20-25% raw materials, waste and CO2 emissions. Transnationally CircPro organises 1. Procurer-to-Procurer Learning and Action Programme, 2. CP expert task forces and 3. transnationally cross-industry communities of practice.CircPro focuses on three pivotal scaling strategies 1) Minimum Circularity Requirements to help building markets of scale for suppliers, 2) transnational cross-industry communities of practice to build new and sustained partnerships between procurers, suppliers and the supply chain and 3) learning and practical collaboration between procurers.

Achievements (EN):

The aim of ProCirc during the last 4.5 years has been to experiment, implement, and expand our knowledge of circular procurement practices. Circular procurement is a key driver of sustainability, underscoring the potential of organisations to influence the shift towards a more resource-efficient and resilient future. The more than 30 circular procurement pilots that were supported by the project show that circular procurement is possible and that it leads to impact. Both in terms of reducing CO2 emissions, waste generation, and consumption of virgin materials but also in terms of new business models, new ways of working within organisations, and increased innovation towards new ways of closing the loop of products and materials. ProCirc was committed to supporting procurers in making the transition to more circular procurements, we called it a joint learning experience. We have supported the different pilot procurements with expertise from peers and specialists from different organisations and countries. We have also learned from the procurers and the pilot procurements and transformed this knowledge into useful tools, guidance, and methodologies that will help the scale-up of circular procurement further. More than 20 Communities of Practices were established, in which procurers and stakeholders came together regularly. In the last stage of the project, three Joint Statements of Demand were initiated to address minimum circular requirements to the market. The lasting outputs of the project are the guidances on circular procurement and organisational change, the tools and methodologies, and training materials. All pilot cases are available in short factsheets with their main lessons learned. For further upscaling ProCirc highlighted five policy recommendations and brought together other initiatives and projects in the umbrella network C-Prone. We have actively disseminated, promoted, and explained our learnings and resources to external audiences reaching way over 1500 different organisations in Europe and beyond. Our online event on the 18th of April 2023 and our final conference, titled "Circular Procurement: Time to Scale Up" on May 11th in Brussels attracted > 80 participants each interested in learning more and discussing the results of the ProCirc project.

Website: https://northsearegion.eu/procirc

Thematic information

Waste and pollution

Specific Objective: Promote the development and adoption of products, services and processes to accelerate greening of the North Sea Region economy

Thematic Objective: (06) preserving and protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency by:

Investment Priority: (06g) supporting industrial transition towards a resource- efficient economy, promoting green growth, eco-innovation and environmental performance management in the public and private sectors

Partners (11)

Lead Partner: Rijkswaterstaat

Address: Rijnstraat 8, 2515XP Den Haag, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.rijkswaterstaat.nl/english

Total budget: EUR 967 025.00

ERDF budget: EUR 483 512.00

ACR Plus

Name: ACR Plus

Address: Avenue d’Auderghem 63, B-1040 Brussels, Belgium

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.acrplus.org

Total budget: EUR 241 812.00

ERDF budget: EUR 120 906.00

Business in the Community

Name: Business in the Community

Address: 137 Shepherdess Walk, N17RQ London, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.bitc.org.uk

Total budget: EUR 504 401.00

ERDF budget: EUR 252 200.00

City of Malmo

Name: City of Malmo

Address: August Palms plats 1, 205 80 Malmo, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: https://malmo.se/miljo

Total budget: EUR 325 812.00

ERDF budget: EUR 162 906.00

CLEAN

Name: CLEAN

Address: Radhuspladsen59, 4, 2550 Kobenhavn, Denmark

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.cleancluster.dk

Total budget: EUR 363 157.00

ERDF budget: EUR 181 578.00

Direktoratet for Forvaltning og Økonomistyring

Name: Direktoratet for Forvaltning og Økonomistyring

Address: Lørenfaret 1, 580 Oslo, Norway

Legal status: public

Website: https://dfo.no/

Total budget: EUR 217 818.00

Kamp C

Name: Kamp C

Address: Britselaan 20, 2260 Westerlo, Belgium

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.kampc.be

Total budget: EUR 360 457.00

ERDF budget: EUR 180 228.00

Kolding Kommune

Name: Kolding Kommune

Address: Bronzevej 6, DK6000 Kolding, Denmark

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.kolding.dk/affald

Total budget: EUR 317 185.00

ERDF budget: EUR 158 592.00

Netværk for Bæredygtig Erhvervsudvikling NordDanmark

Name: Netværk for Bæredygtig Erhvervsudvikling NordDanmark

Address: Stigsborg Brygge 5, 9400 Norresundby Aalborg, Denmark

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.nben.dk

Total budget: EUR 369 564.00

ERDF budget: EUR 184 782.00

Public Waste Agency of Flanders - Circular Flanders

Name: Public Waste Agency of Flanders - Circular Flanders

Address: Stationsstraat 110, 2800 Mechelen, Belgium

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.circularflanders.be

Total budget: EUR 608 568.00

ERDF budget: EUR 304 284.00

Zero Waste Scotland

Name: Zero Waste Scotland

Address: 2a Forthside Way, FK81QZ Stirling, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.zerowastescotland.org.uk

Total budget: EUR 685 164.00

ERDF budget: EUR 342 582.00

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Rijkswaterstaat

Circular Procurement: Accelerate circular economy through procurement power, alliance- and capacity building.

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ACR Plus

Circular Procurement: Accelerate circular economy through procurement power, alliance- and capacity building.

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Business in the Community

Circular Procurement: Accelerate circular economy through procurement power, alliance- and capacity building.

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City of Malmö, District of Fosie

Circular Procurement: Accelerate circular economy through procurement power, alliance- and capacity building.

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CLEAN

Circular Procurement: Accelerate circular economy through procurement power, alliance- and capacity building.

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Norwegian Agency for Public and Financial Management

Circular Procurement: Accelerate circular economy through procurement power, alliance- and capacity building.

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Kamp C

Circular Procurement: Accelerate circular economy through procurement power, alliance- and capacity building.

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Municipality of Kolding

Circular Procurement: Accelerate circular economy through procurement power, alliance- and capacity building.

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Network for Sustainability Business Development Northern Denmark

Circular Procurement: Accelerate circular economy through procurement power, alliance- and capacity building.

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Public Waste Agency of Flanders - Circular Flanders

Circular Procurement: Accelerate circular economy through procurement power, alliance- and capacity building.

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Zero Waste Scotland

Circular Procurement: Accelerate circular economy through procurement power, alliance- and capacity building.

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Summary

Project name (EN): Circular Procurement: Accelerate circular economy through procurement power, alliance- and capacity building.

Project acronym: ProCirc

Project start date: 2018-12-13

Project end date: 2023-06-30

Project status: closed

Relevant precedent projects (not in keep.eu):

Relevant subsequent projects (not in keep.eu):

BRINC

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 4 960 963.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 371 570.00

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB North Sea

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-02-14

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

73 / 73 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

871 / 871 (100%)

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Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.northsearegion.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-09-20 and 2023-01-12.

The financial data featured in keep.eu for this programme, it's projects and its partners is not exact and should be taken as a reference only.

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