Interreg CircleMED aims to convert the Med area into circular-economy-based territories, accelerating the diffusion of circular and climate-neutral practices and the green transition of the local civil, industrial and institutional systems. CircleMED points at reconciling our economies and human activities with the planetary boundaries, involving all stakeholders to promote the transition process to circular and sustainable production and consumption models, stimulating awareness and testing innovative circular solutions.

By testing solutions that already exist, but that have never been used together, the project aims at further developing and scaling up circular approaches, methodologies and strategies easily adaptable to any kind of territory.

CircleMED’s integrated and systemic approach targets all the four helix stakeholders to promote the transition process: it stimulates awareness and tests innovative circular solutions working closely with citizens, policy makers, business support organisations, academia and HER entities and additional stakeholders, sharing knowledge and responsibilities for the green transition.

Promoting circularity, testing resource efficiency through an innovative circular assessment tool for SMEs, creating a transnational network of territorial circular hubs and elaborating plans for transferability of results in the whole Mediterranean area, are the most innovative instruments CircleMED deploys to boost the transition process. It helps each stakeholder group, on one hand, to identify and to play one’s part and, on the other hand, to be aware of the shared responsibility the society as a whole has in the process.