Circular Regions is a newly developed platform that aims to bring more technology driven solutions and  share best practices across cities and regions. The key focus of the platform is to enable a healthy network across different stakeholders. Cynthia is the architect behind the platform. She highlighted that the transition should be an inclusive process, involving diverse stakeholders. The key element of Circular Regions is to work with system entrepreneurs, who understand the local circular economy ecosystem and  work with the public sector.

Laurene shared with us interesting insights about the collaboration processes across 5 Swiss Impact Hubs established in the Circular Economy Transition network. The vision is to shift Switzerland to becoming an innovation leader in the Circular economy, considerably reducing the country’s consumption of natural resources and contributing to sustainable development. The focus of their work is structured across  pillars such as: CE Ecosystem building, CE incubators, Circular business labs and CE Policy recommendations.

Following the next presentation, Sandra explained the role of Holland Circular Hotspots, which is a public private partnership for companies, knowledge institutions and government cities. Their key focuses are  building their network and knowledge transitions across hotspots.  Sandra shared the path needed for the transition, these are 1) a shared sense of urgency. 2) Implementation occuring in 4 subsequent phases: preparing, building, scaling, mainstreaming. 3) Tasks for the initiatives  becoming similar, but case specific. 4) Building a circular economy as a clear destination but without a predetermined path. The presentation you can find here.