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CIRC4LIFE

Relevant project information

Dates

May 2018 - April 2021

Project website

Project completed

Role of CIRCE

Coordinator

Grant agreement number

776503

Funded by

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Description and objectives

  • The CIRC4Life project aims to develop and implement a circular economy approach for sustainable products and services throughout their value and supply chains. Three new circular economy business models will be developed, including (i) co-creation of products and services, (ii) sustainable consumption, and (iii) collaborative recycling and reuse.

    The product/service co-creation model will bring end-users closer to the design and manufacturing phases, identifying consumer preferences through Big-data online mining product reviews and evaluating product specifications and prototypes through the Living Lab to customize end-user requirements. Benefiting from co-creation features, sets of sustainable production methods will be implemented and new products/services will be created.
  • The sustainable consumption model will develop a method to calculate product ecopoints based on the results of the FP7 myEcoCost project, assess product environmental footprints (PEF), provide a traceability solution to monitor product sustainability along the value chain, and support end-users and stakeholders to actively implement the circular economy through awareness raising and knowledge sharing activities.
  • The collaborative recycling/reuse model will develop a system for stakeholders to interact with each other to facilitate the use or reuse of end-of-life products and reduce waste, and implement the eco-credit delivery system to encourage people to recycle/reuse.

Value proposition

This project will be demonstrated on a large scale in electrical and electronic products and in the agricultural and agri-food sectors, will provide an effective means of communicating with broad communities to disseminate project results, and will involve a large number of stakeholders along the value and supply chains throughout the life of the project, including end users, producers, researchers and civil society.

CIRC4Life aims to demonstrate a systemic and eco-innovative circular economy approach to sustainable products and services throughout their life cycles. This includes:

  1. Three new circular economy business models: co-creation of products and services, sustainable consumption, and collaborative recycling and reuse, to be demonstrated in two industry sectors, electrical and electronic products and agriculture/food;
  2. effective means of communicating with wider communities to disseminate project results; and
  3. an ICT platform to support project development, demonstration, dissemination and communication. 

Project partners

Nottingham Trent University Enviro Data Scilly Organics Kosnic Lighting European EPC Comptence Center GmbH (EECC) Swerea Make Mothers Matter - MMM GS1 Germany GmbH Laurea University of Applied Sciences CEPS (Centre for European Policy Studies) Recyclia/Ecopilas