Accelerating the SHIFT to CIRCULAR economy

Programme 2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B North West Europe

Date of latest update: 2025-05-17

Description

Description (EN):

Circular Shift (CS) will accelerate the circular economy (CE) by scaling up circular procurement (CP) practices of phones, laptops & workwear, as examples of frequently procured products in public organisations in NL, BE, FR, DE and IE. CS partners will widely implement value chain collaboration (VCC) methods after piloting it in 8 procurement cases, to promote circular strategies (e.g. repair, refurbishment, remanufacturing), within the legal procurement framework. They will help realising the organisational change and tools needed to make those practices the standard for all product groups, on all department levels in 60 procuring organisations (partners and external network). CS partners have committed to producing strategies for internal commitment and measuring impact, an VCC action plan and a joint training scheme to overcome the 3 main barriers hindering the mainstreaming of CP: 1. Products can only become circular when the full value chain is. Procuring organisations are in a unique position to facilitate intensified coordination between value chain actors on materials, design, production, (re)use & recycling to close material loops. 2. A lack of organisation-wide commitment to CP. It is crucial that all internal actors (e.g. procurement, finance, and management of procuring organisations) have knowledge, skills & motivation to adopt CP procedures. 3. Procuring organisations cannot capture the benefits of CP as insights & metrics on tangible impact from circular products is unavailable. They will jointly build on the outcome of prior CP pilots & the consortium experience, by - introducing & implementing a “transition broker role” to facilitate internal & external commitment, - involving all actors in procuring organisations to implement new working practices, - building strong VCC to facilitate new business models tested in pilot actions and - facilitating impact monitoring through developing & testing a comprehensive decision-making framework.

Expected Achievements (EN):

Increase value chain cooperation (VCC) to enhance the circularity of phones, laptops, and workwear. VCC involves close cooperation between procuring organizations and value chain actors (producers, suppliers, lease companies, refurbishers, waste managers). We will test it in 8 CP pilot actions across 5 NWE countries. Guidance on setting up VCC will be disseminated as a training module (WP2) to 30 procuring organisations in 5 NWE countries. Build capacity on internal commitment in organisations that improves adopting circular principles in business operations. Organisations (and their employees) understand the importance of internal commitment regarding circular procurement of phones, laptops, and workwear and how to build it. The training modules will be provided to 30 procuring organizations in 5 NWE countries. Organisations make impact based decisions to improve and proof the impact of circular procurement. Normalising the use of a decision making framework (DMF) and monitoring dashboard stimulates further uptake of forecasting and monitoring real impact of circular procurement. The DMF and dashboard will be tested and applied in 8 pilots. Guidance on use and benefits of the DMF and dashboard will be disseminated as a training module (WP2) to 30 procuring organisations in 5 NWE countries.

Project outputs: VCC pilots of workwear and phones or laptops(EN)
VCC methodology(EN)
Training project partners and external procuring organisations(EN)
Support package(EN)
Circular Shift overarching strategy(EN)
Decision Making Framework Pilots(EN)
Decision Making Framework and Dashboard(EN)
Website: https://www.nweurope.eu/

Thematic information

Institutional cooperation and cooperation networks

Priority: (VI-B_NWE_3) Transition towards a place-based circular economy

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: 071 Promoting the use of recycled materials as raw materials

Partners (10)

Lead Partner: Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 967944377

Partner’s ID if not PIC: NL82.16.99.180.B.01.

Department: Rijkswaterstaat

Address: Rijnstraat, 2515 XP The Hague, Netherlands

Department address: Rijnstraat, 2515XP The Hague, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Organisation type: National public authority

Website (not verified): http://www.rijkswaterstaat.nl

Total budget: EUR 1 039 670.84

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 623 802.50

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 415 868.34

Nyenrode Business Universiteit

Name: Nyenrode Business Universiteit

Department: Expertise Center Accounting, Auditing & Control

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 993877909

Partner’s ID if not PIC: NL.81.39.89.905.B.01

Address: Straatweg, 3621BG Breukelen, Netherlands

Department address: Straatweg, 3621BG Breukelen, Netherlands

Legal status: private

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: https://www.nyenrode.nl/

Total budget: EUR 690 900.04

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 414 540.02

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 276 360.02

Die Senatorin für Umwelt, Klima und Wissenschaft

Name: Die Senatorin für Umwelt, Klima und Wissenschaft

Department: Department of Climate, Energy Transition and Environmental Innovation

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 998928796

Partner’s ID if not PIC: N.a.

Address: An der Reeperbahn, 28217 Bremen, Germany

Department address: An der Reeperbahn, 28217 Bremen, Germany

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Regional public authority

Website (not verified): http://www.umwelt.bremen.de

Total budget: EUR 373 080.97

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 223 848.58

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 149 232.39

CIRCULIFE

Name: CIRCULIFE

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 876307119

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 0805197493

Address: Peerlaarstraat, 2820 Bonheiden, Belgium

Legal status: private

Organisation type: SME

Website (not verified): http://www.circulife.eu

Total budget: EUR 396 200.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 237 720.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 158 480.00

GBER schemes / de minimis: GBER Article 20

Irish Manufacturing Research

Name: Irish Manufacturing Research

Department: Circular Economy Unit / Sustainable Manufacturing Division

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 927973393

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 3307369PH

Address: Aerodrome Business Park, D24 WCO4 Dublin, Ireland

Department address: Aerodrome Business Park, D24 WCO4 Dublin, Ireland

Legal status: private

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website (not verified): http://www.imr.ie

Total budget: EUR 698 182.50

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 418 909.50

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 279 273.00

GBER schemes / de minimis: GBER Article 20

Association of Cities and Regions for sustainable Resource management

Name: Association of Cities and Regions for sustainable Resource management

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 952441061

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 0455.424.995

Address: Avenue des arts, 1210 Brussels, Belgium

Legal status: private

Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs

Website: https://acrplus.org/en/

Total budget: EUR 401 777.46

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 241 066.47

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 160 710.99

RESECO

Name: RESECO

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 876758848

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 48985028900047 | 48985028900047 | Identifiant Siret du siege (EN)

Address: Avenue Denis PAPIN, 49100 Angers, France

Legal status: private

Organisation type: Other

Website: http://www.reseco.fr

Total budget: EUR 215 607.84

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 129 364.70

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 86 243.14

GBER schemes / de minimis: GBER Article 20

Gemeente Almere

Name: Gemeente Almere

Department: Department of Finance and Control / Team Procurement and Grants

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 953634355

Partner’s ID if not PIC: NL0006462583B11

Address: Stadhuisplein, 1315 HR Almere, Netherlands

Department address: Stadhuisplein, 1315 HR Almere, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website (not verified): http://www.almere.nl

Total budget: EUR 366 033.82

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 219 620.29

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 146 413.53

Gemeente Middelburg

Name: Gemeente Middelburg

Department: Afdeling Leefomgeving/ Environment

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 937840621

Partner’s ID if not PIC: NL2128032B01

Address: Kanaalweg, 4337 PA Middelburg, Netherlands

Department address: Kanaalweg, 4337 PA Middelburg, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: https://www.middelburg.nl

Total budget: EUR 584 937.52

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 350 962.51

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 233 975.01

Stad Mechelen

Name: Stad Mechelen

Department: Strategy and ICT

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 951863620

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 0207.499.430

Address: Grote Markt, 2800 Mechelen, Belgium

Department address: Grote Markt, 2800 Mechelen, Belgium

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website (not verified): http://www.mechelen.be

Total budget: EUR 626 808.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 376 084.80

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 250 723.20

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Project name (EN): Accelerating the SHIFT to CIRCULAR economy

Project acronym: CIRCULAR SHIFT

Project ID: NWE0400455

Project start date: 2025-01-01

Project end date: 2028-06-30

Project status: ongoing

Relevant linked projects:

Interreg NSR ProCirc (past) (EN) | To enhance wide uptake and dissemination CS partners will make use of the ongoing C-Prone network established by ProCirc and for which ACR+ is still the coordinator. The network consists of over 35 CP practitioners and is a well-known body of knowledge with the aim to actively exchange this knowledge and build new alliances.
CS will build further on the training modules developed in Procirc for organisational change. (EN), CFIT (current) (EN) | The Circular & Fair ICT Pact (CFIT) is an international procurement-led partnership to accelerate circularity, fairness and sustainability in the ICT sector. CFIT will stimulate the use of common, easy-to-use procurement criteria, provide guidance and facilitate knowledge sharing. Participants leverage their collective procurement power, in close dialogue with the ICT supply side, to affect the change and innovation needed both in the tender stage and the pre and post tender stage of circular procurement of ICT. CFIT is an action under the UN One Planet Network SPP programme. RWS currently provides the secretariat to CFIT, so CS partners can profit from the CFIT network and at the same time share outputs and results. (EN), Interreg EUROPE Circular Minds (current) (EN) | RWS is LP for this running project aiming at identifying notably indicators for successful organisational governance. These will feed into the monitoring toolbox / the Decision making Framework (act. 3.5). (EN), Green Deal: Circular Procurement Flanders (EN) | The Flemish Green Deal on Circular Procurement was closed November 21th 2019. The lessons learned by the 150 participants (MECH) are shared on an informative and network building web-portal maintained by the Flemish OVAM organisation: Circular Procurement in Flanders (vlaanderen-circulair.be). (EN), CEAP 2.0 (EU) (ongoing) (EN) | The circular economy action plan (CEAP 2.0) is an important element of the European Green Deal. It lists a number of crucial actions to be implemented to reach circular economy objectives. Particularly relevant for Circular Shift are the following recent developments:
The Circular Economy monitoring framework (2023) and “the right to repair” directive (2023). (EN), LIFE ECAP (past) (EN) | The LIFE ECAP project aimed at adopting a circular approach to textile waste. RWS was in the lead for a work package on workwear and procurement. Results of this work will be used in Circular Shift, such as circular criteria development for workwear. (EN), Training “circulair inkopen en aanbesteden” (former Circulaire Inkoop Academy) (ongoing) (EN) | To support her ambition to make all procurements in ALM fully sustainable by 2030, the city in cooperation with expert organisations Copper8 and PRICE, develops and organises a training targeted to civil servants of ALM and other municipalities in Flevoland (province) wanting to learn more about circular and sustainable procurement practices. The training is ongoing and will start its newest cycle in September 2024. (EN), The Buyer Group ICT (NL/FL) (ongoing) (EN) | Large group (over 250 people on the mailing list) of Dutch and Flemish purchasing organisations & VC-actors having a role in the transition towards sustainable ICT. Through newsletters, webinars, workshops and CoP’s specifically for purchasing organisations, work is done on exchanging knowledge and tackling challenges that purchasing organisations are facing. Development/continuation of CoP’s on making ICT sustainable in your organization & sustainable software and webinars on the procurement of refurbished/remanufactured IT and life cycle extension. Development of a checklist for preconditions of ‘as a service business models’ for ICT sustainability. The Buyer Group is led by RWS and Circular Flanders. (EN), Buyer group workwear (NL) (ongoing) (EN) | RWS is in the lead with a national buyer group on local enforcement officers uniforms. This group created a shared market vision on procurement of these items. Lessons learnt will be incorporated in Circular Shift. (EN), Green Deals and (TAIEX) workshops/master classes on circular procurement provided all over Europe (NL) (ongoing) (EN) | To stimulate and accelerate circular economy, RWS (NL) supports and provides practical learning networks, lectures and master classes about circular procurement in the Netherlands and all over Europe. Internationally RWS is often invited as expert by TAIEX, the European Commission's information exchange instrument. From these experiences RWS not only gathers knowledge and insights about a great number of circular pilots and practices, they also learn about the differences between countries and European regions. The benefits are both ways: RWS's insights are extremely helpful for Circular Shift and the lessons and outcomes of Circular Shift will input RWS's (international) networks and master classes. [709] (EN), CAM (circularity asset manager)
(Circulife BV, ongoing) (EN) | Since 2023, CIRCULIFE BV has been working on a platform for full asset tracking by serial number for ICT hardware, including laptops and phones (devices and components). The platform aims to collect data on both purchase and use of devices and components, with which the environmental impact can be monitored. The platform is developed following market analysis (partly) funded by ISS subsidy (VLAIO; BE). The platform is accessible for all parties but can be used by private parties to help their ESG reporting and by public parties to help making informed circular procurement decisions for p.e. phones and laptops. There are also developments to use data from this platform to make/get effective calculations for the impact on: ecology, social responsibility, GDPR and ESG compliance (downstream emissions / E5: electroflow). ESG reporting is mandatory for all big companies (since 2024) and will be for more companies following 2025. (EN), SDG12: Fair handeln und beschaffen „Made in Bremen“ (Past) (EN) | The circular procurement project of the Bremen Purchasing and Contracting Centre of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen fulfilled circular and social criteria, including supply chain management in three different tenders (two for furniture, one for textiles). The project was designed as a purchasing cooperation with several German municipalities in order to strengthen the market power of the public sector with circular criteria. Circular criteria are also expected to be integrated into the tendering practices of the Bremen Purchasing and Contracting Centre in the future.
As a result of the supply chain management with a beyond-audit approach carried out for the first time in a German municipality and the study on the social criteria of circular economy, it is to be expected that new processes for the development and intensification of the implementation of social criteria in tendering practice will result in German municipalities.
(EN), Circular PsP (HEU): ongoing (EN) | Sandyford Business District (AO to IMR) is involved as an Irish buying group within the Horizon Europe funded Circular Public Service Platform (Circular PsP) which is developing an AI powered Public Service Platform for Circular, Innovative and Resilient Municipalities through Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP). (EN)

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 5 393 198.99

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 3 235 919.37

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 60.00%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 3 235 919.37. Co-financing rate, 60.00%.

Investments, deliverables, policy contributions

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Deliverables:

Master class on VCC outline.
Attendance list for the master class on VCC.
Inventory circular procurement pilots
Needs assessment value chain collaboration
Dissemination of current VCC needs
Overview of local / regional value chains
Inventory of existing CoPs in the regions
Value chain (VC) working groups
Brief reports (incl. attendance lists) of WG meetings
Pilot outlines
Pilot reports
5 'Meet your supply chain' events summaries
'Meet your supply chain' events report
VCC methodology prototype
VCC methodology
VCC implementation plan
VCC strategy
Communication strategy and action plan
Kick-off event
Mid-term event
Final event
WP1 communication plan
VCC lessons learned
Continuous communication activities
Dissemination event per product group
Meet your supplier events
Webinars via C-PRONE
Master class outline.
Attendance list.
Self assessment matrix
Needs mapping overview
Training outlines
Generic thematic modules
Specific role related modules
Translation of the modules to Dutch, German and French
Internal commitment strategy
Blueprint and role description for internal circular ambassadors and/or taskforce
Guidance on using CoPs, C-PRONE and networks for mentoring support
Model for pledge or declaration of commitment
Train-the-trainer module and translation
Training curriculum and planning
Attendance lists
Circular Shift overarching strategy
WP2 communication plan
Best practices compendium for behavioural change
Continuous communication activities
Videos with success stories
Workshop politicians
Training module
Webinars via C-PRONE
Docu films and webinar
Master class outline.
Attendance list.
Inventory of tools and frameworks
Interview and questionnaire reports about information needs
Mapping / analysis of information needs from procuring organisations and VC partners
Pilot outlines
Pilot reports
DMF and dashboard prototype
Data Management Plan
Decision Making Framework
Forecasting and monitoring dashboard
DMF and dashboard implementation plan
DMF strategy
WP3 communication plan
Evaluation report about the testing in 8 pilots
Continuous communication activities
Video
Webinar
Presentation at European Week of Regions and Cities
Webinars via C-PRONE

Programme Common Output Indicator:

RCO 084 - Pilot actions developed jointly and implemented in projects, Measurement unit:
RCO 116 - Jointly developed solutions, Measurement unit:
RCO 083 - Strategies and action plans jointly developed, Measurement unit:
RCO 085 - Participations in joint training schemes, Measurement unit:

Programme Common Result Indicator:

RCR 079 - Joint strategies and action plans taken up by organisations, Measurement unit:
RCR 104 - Solutions taken up or up-scaled by organisations, Measurement unit:
RCR 081 - Completions of joint training schemes, Measurement unit:

Programme Result Indicator:

PSR 1: Organisations with increased institutional capacity due to their participation in cooperation activities across borders, Measurement unit: Organisations

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2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B North West Europe

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

2025-05-12

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)

739 / 739 (100%)

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Accelerating the SHIFT to CIRCULAR economy

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