The path to creating circular and regenerative cities offers both opportunities and challenges but these remain mostly at a theoretical level.
Taking a departure from the Horizon 2020 project “REFLOW” and the experience of the implementation of circular practices in the project’s European Capitals and smaller cities (Amsterdam, Berlin, Milan, Paris, Cluj-Napoca and Vejle), this workshop will address the lack of knowledge and experience surrounding circular economy implementation at urban level.
In particular, the workshop will address the following three intertwined questions:
1) Which are the main building blocks that need to be in place for a successful implementation of circular economy at urban level?
2) What are the challenges cities facing in implementing a circular economy and how these can be anticipated and addressed?
3) What are the opportunities the implementation of circular economy practices brings forth and how cities can learn how to exploit and to measure them?