Circular economy Strategies, action plans, and Solutions for agrifood systems transition in ADRION coastal communities

Programme 2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B IPA Adriatic-Ionian
Date of latest update: 2025-10-06

Description

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Project outputs: Joint strategy and action plan(EN)
Pilot Actions(EN)
Joint solutions(EN)
Adriatic-Ionian Cooperation Network(EN)

Thematic information


Priority: (VI-B_IPA-A_2) Supporting a greener and climate resilient Adriatic-Ionian region

Priority specific objective: RSO2.6. Promoting the transition to a circular and resource efficient economy

Priority policy objective (Interreg specific objective): PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility

Type of intervention: 075 Support to environmentally-friendly production processes and resource efficiency in SMEs

Partners (10)

Lead Partner: Istituto Agronomico Mediterraneo di Bari - CIHEAM Bari

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 999870375

Partner’s ID if not PIC: N/A (fiscal code: 93047470724)

Address: Via Ceglie, 70010 Valenzano, Italy

Legal status: public

Organisation type: International organisation, EEIG

Website: https://www.iamb.it

Total budget: EUR 288 932.50

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 245 592.62

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 43 339.88

Contractors:

  • Name: Antonio Giuseppe Errico
    VAT registration or tax identification number: 04016380752
  • Name: Panico Sara
    VAT registration or tax identification number: 05376510755
  • Name: Tommaso Scarascia
    VAT registration or tax identification number: 05303470750
  • Name: Francesco Notarangelo
    VAT registration or tax identification number: 08342120725
  • Name: Lorenzo Labellarte
    VAT registration or tax identification number: 08669870720
Centar za poduzetništvo d.o.o.

Name: Centar za poduzetništvo d.o.o.

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 892711371

Partner’s ID if not PIC: HR98475504404

Address: Vukovarska, 20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Business support organisation

Website: http://www.czp.hr

Total budget: EUR 110 937.50

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 94 296.87

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 16 640.63

OPĆINA KONAVLE

Name: OPĆINA KONAVLE

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 904968776

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 24482197680

Address: Trumbićev put, 20210 Cavtat, Croatia

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: https://www.opcinakonavle.hr/

Total budget: EUR 134 450.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 114 282.50

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 20 167.50

Contractors:

  • Name: OPG Kameni dvori
    VAT registration or tax identification number: 32040903184
  • Name: Walk the Talk
    VAT registration or tax identification number: HR26659682266
  • Name: Agrarno savjetovanje d.o.o.
    VAT registration or tax identification number: HR96428467999
Δήμος Κεντρικής Κέρκυρας & Διαποντίων Νήσων

Name: Δήμος Κεντρικής Κέρκυρας & Διαποντίων Νήσων

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 914689631

Partner’s ID if not PIC: EL997913727

Address: Leoforos Alexandras, 49132 Corfu, Greece

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: https://corfu.gr/

Total budget: EUR 143 972.50

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 122 376.62

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 21 595.88

Επιτροπη Ερευνων Ιονιου Πανεπιστημιου

Name: Επιτροπη Ερευνων Ιονιου Πανεπιστημιου

Department: Department of informatics

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 998243394

Partner’s ID if not PIC: EL09152483

Address: Theotoki str, 49132 Corfu, Greece

Department address: Tsirigoti sq, 49132 Corfu, Greece

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: http://rc.ionio.gr

Total budget: EUR 214 172.50

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 182 046.62

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 32 125.88

Contractors:

  • Name: HORST S.P.P.C.
    VAT registration or tax identification number: EL800401829
Opština Herceg Novi

Name: Opština Herceg Novi

Department: Secretariat for Tourism, Economic Development and Investments

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 931460252

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 020008459

Address: Trg Maršala Tita, 85340 Herceg Novi, Montenegro

Department address: Trg Maršala Tita, 85340 Herceg Novi, Montenegro

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: http://www.hercegnovi.me

Total budget: EUR 131 072.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 111 411.20

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 19 660.80

Contractors:

  • Name: PR Consultancy hub llc
    VAT registration or tax identification number: 30/31-26858-2
  • Name: Confido project manag. group
    VAT registration or tax identification number: 03529908
Bashkia Vlore

Name: Bashkia Vlore

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 917616218

Partner’s ID if not PIC: K56703201O

Address: 4 Heronjtë, 9400 Vlore, Albania

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: http://www.vlora.gov.al

Total budget: EUR 157 615.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 133 972.75

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 23 642.25

Grad Trebinje

Name: Grad Trebinje

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 911235558

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 4401369910000

Address: Vuka Karadžića , 89101 Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: https://trebinje.rs.ba/

Total budget: EUR 111 525.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 94 796.25

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 16 728.75

Centar za ekonomski i ruralni razvoj

Name: Centar za ekonomski i ruralni razvoj

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 920461422

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 4003794520005

Address: Krnete, 78250 Laktasi, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs

Website: https://cerd.ba/

Total budget: EUR 145 756.58

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 123 893.09

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 21 863.49

Contractors:

  • Name: Eko Dizajn d.o.o. Mostar
    VAT registration or tax identification number: N/a
  • Name: Boris Bucalo
    VAT registration or tax identification number: N/A
Comune di Tricase

Name: Comune di Tricase

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 01086480751

Address: Piazza Pisanelli, 73039 Tricase, Italy

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: https://www.comune.tricase.le.it/

Total budget: EUR 140 597.50

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 119 507.87

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 21 089.63

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Summary

Project name (EN): Circular economy Strategies, action plans, and Solutions for agrifood systems transition in ADRION coastal communities

Project acronym: CIRCUS

Project ID: IPA-ADRION00177

Project start date: 2024-09-01

Project end date: 2027-08-31

Project status: ongoing

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Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 579 031.08

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 342 176.39

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 85.00%

Co-financing sources:


    Investments, deliverables, policy contributions

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    Deliverables:

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    Contribution to wider strategies and policies:

    • EUStrategyAdriaticIonianRegion The project CircuS invests on the improvement of coastal communities’ capacities to dialogue with their inner areas and increase the virtuous process linking fisheries aquaculture and the food sector as a whole.
    • Meeting the EUSAIR’s blue growth pillar (Pillar 1 – Flagship n.2), CircuS will move forward it by integrating agrifood transition in the process of increasing the coastal communities’ competitiveness.
    • The process of combining blue and green growth allow to cover diverse sectors and actors.
    • To this extent, the cooperation opportunities in the AIR will be multiplied as well as the contribution if its communities to create growth, new jobs and compliance with the EU standards.
    • It is important to mention also that CircuS conveys the conclusions of the multi-stakeholders’ workshops held in Mostar (23/03/2023), Banja Luka (18/04/2023) and a roundtable in Sarajevo during the 8th EUSAIR FORUM (24/05/2023) – the events funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation with the aim to promote the EU integration of the EUSAIR through green rural development and sustainable agri-food systems. In these occasions, a core of the project partnership (LP1, PP3, PP4, AP2) was built and the strategic orientation of the project was agreed.
    • The main objective was to propose a new pillar for the challenges and opportunities of sustainable agrifood systems development in the Adriatic-Ionian Region (AIR) and to devise the ways to foster cooperation and integration, facilitating the adoption and implementation of the EU Green Deal (which aims to boost the efficient use of resources by moving to a clean, circular economy and stop climate change) and Farm to Fork (F2F) for a fair, healthy, and environmental friendly food systems. Hence, the project fits the EUSAIR revision process triggered due to the new Multiannual Financial Framework, EU policies update, new members, the ongoing enlargement process, and the need to address new/current challenges.
    • EuropeanGreenDeal The CircuS overall ambition is to accelerate the food system transition to fulfill the European Green Deal policy and UN 2030 SDGs objectives (specifically SDG 8,11,12,13,14,15,17). Accordingly, the focus on the whole agrifood system contributes to leverage resource efficiency and circularity opportunities by reducing its pressures on the environment, (resource depletion) and delivering co-benefits to halt the climate change and biodiversity loss.
    • In addition, CircuS will pursue the Farm to Fork strategy, at the heart of the EU Green Deal, by the co-desing of new opportunities built on “niche” innovations, place-based pilot solutions and increased public awareness pooled by the quadruple helix stakeholders’ involvement (i.e. policy makers, from coastal and rural communities, businesses operating along the food value chain, non-governmental organisations, social partners, academia and citizens).
    • The CircuS project will allow the partners to adopt tools and methodologies toward their food system transition by co-desing strategies and action plans built on the exchange and share of EU frameworks (aquis communataire) and standards.

    Programme Common Output Indicator:

    • RCO 116 - Jointly developed solutions, Measurement unit:
    • RCO 084 - Pilot actions developed jointly and implemented in projects, Measurement unit:
    • RCO 083 - Strategies and action plans jointly developed, Measurement unit:
    • RCO 087 - Organisations cooperating across borders, Measurement unit:

    Programme Common Result Indicator:

    • RCR 084 - Organisations cooperating across borders after project completion, Measurement unit:
    • RCR 104 - Solutions taken up or up-scaled by organisations, Measurement unit:
    • RCR 079 - Joint strategies and action plans taken up by organisations, Measurement unit:

    Project part of European Union Macro-Regional or Sea Basin Strategy: EUSAIR

    EUSAIR Priority (Policy) area / Horizontal action:

    EUSAIR Degree of compliance:

    Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

    Financing programme

    2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B IPA Adriatic-Ionian

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

    2025-10-06

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

    70 / 70 (100%)

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

    646 / 646 (100%)

    Notes on the data