OUR TEAM

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Dina Padalkina

Founder & CEO, City & Built Environment Lead

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Arianna Nicoletti

Textiles & Fashion Lead

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Tobias Jänecke

Education team & Circular Design Expert

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Julius Schäufele

Julius Schäufele

Built Environment team: circular construction processes |  Founder of Concular

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Ronja Scholz

Education team & Service Design Expert | Fraunhofer IZM

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Maximilian Mauracher

Circular Consumption team | Communication: Social Media

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Patrick Teuffel

Built Environment team: Circular engineering and materials

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Cherelle Escaffre

Textile team: research and materials

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Inga Mücke

Communications & PR Lead | team: food & hospitality

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Jojo Shone

Textile team: research and materials

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Anna Reiners

Education team

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Laura Llonch

Textile team: proposal development and research

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Sarah Keller

Textile team: proposal development and research

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Davit Markosyan

Food and Hospitality: project support

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Josi Quitzke

Textile team: Proposal and content development

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Cristina Orizzonte

Built environment: interior design and architecture

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Daniela Raffo

Built environment: project support and education

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Jan Störkel

Food and Hospitality: project support

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Arno Bouma

Administration & Operation

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Emma Gervasi

Emma Gervasi

Education & Community Lead

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Irali Rodarte

Irali Rodarte

Events Lead

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Meg Koch

Education Lead

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Omar Mohammed

Community building team

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Laura Grotenrath

Education Team & Zero Waste Expert

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OUR FURTHER SUPPORTERS

Friends of Circular Berlin

Cooperation partners and funding institutions

Our journey

Finding the local actors

Our story started when 4 volunteers  joined forces to organize the Circular Economy Mapping event in February 2018. Together we discovered more than 120 initiatives in Berlin which are involved in the circular economy. Along with the impressive results, it marked the beginning of a fruitful collaboration with EIT Climate-KIC and Berlin Partner.

Identifying industries with circular potential

The collaboration with Climate-KIC continued, supporting an in-depth research study on what approach should be taken to “anchor” the circular economy topic in Berlin. This gave the first impulse for developing Circular Berlin as a platform. The research identified 4 industries with great circular development potential in Berlin: the built environment, food & biomass, textile & fashion, and materials & products.

Mapping industry hurdles and opportunities

In a next step, we brought together the local actors through the dedicated industry events. We aimed to find the main hurdles standing in the way of developing more circular practices, as well as defining tangible solutions to overcome them.

Photo credit: Ian Delu / sinnwerkstatt.com

Expanding our reach

We are currently focusing on expanding our reach through community-building, education, project development, research as well as developing a local circular economy agenda.

As a non-profit, we rely on financial contributions from people and organisations who believe our work is valuable and helpful. We appreciate your support.

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