Impact unit: Circular Market
In the Circular Market impact area, we focus on transforming economic conditions: finance mechanisms, investment logic, and market incentives. Our programs bring together capital providers, entrepreneurs, and decision-makers to redesign how businesses create, share, and sustain value — for Berlin and beyond.
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Wie man Kreislaufwirtschaft im Tourismus entwickelt
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Alles, was du über Circular Berlin wissen willst
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Neuer Bericht: Berlins Weg zur zirkulären Elektronik: Mapping
Published by How circular is Berlin’s electronics sector today? And what needs to change so our devices stay in use longer? Our team at Circular Berlin is proud to announce the publication of our latest analysis: The 2026 Circular Electronics Report. This comprehensive study maps the current landscape of the electronics sector in our city and…
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Title of the Program
Short description of the Program with Goal. We empower Berlin to become a living blueprint for the circular economy. Through education, policy change, community engagement, and systems innovation, we tackle the root causes of wasteful practices.
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Die Kreislaufwirtschaft vorantreiben: Circular Berlins Innovationen 2024
As 2024 draws to a close, we at Circular Berlin reflect on a year marked by significant achievements, collaborative endeavors, and a steadfast commitment to advancing the circular economy in our city. Building upon the foundations laid in previous years, we’ve expanded our initiatives, engaged with diverse communities, and fostered innovation across various sectors. Building…
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R-Strategien für eine zirkuläre Textilwirtschaft
The SOLSTICE project is funded by the EU’s Horizon Europe framework program and aims to promote climate-neutral practices and the transition to a circular economy in the textile industry. The project follows a systemic and holistic approach that considers all phases of waste prevention and is guided by the 5R strategies: Refuse / Reduce, Reuse,…
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Verringerung der Lebensmittelabfälle in der Hotelbranche durch Null-Abfall- und Kreislaufstrategien
by Robert Hattaway Last year saw the conclusion of our 2-year project on food waste, a topic with huge environmental, social, and economic ramifications. Working together with partners NEW STANDARD.STUDIO, Seminaris Hotel, and visitBerlin, we explored this topic in the context of hotel gastronomy, looking at how the circular economy and zero waste approaches can…
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Technik und Räume: Kreislaufwirtschaft mit Photonik und Materialwissenschaft
Funders Berlin Senatsverwaltung Wirtschaft, Energie und Betriebe (SenWeb) Partners Creative Climate Cities, WISTA Dates April 2024 – December 2025 Get in touch Stefan Aufrichter Project Management Through this project, we will explore the potential of Deep Tech applications and co-creation spaces for accelerating and implementing a circular economy in various industries in Berlin and beyond….
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Circular City Challenge 2.0: Nach intensiven Matchmaking starten 23 Kreislauf-Lösungen in die Umsetzung
In the Circular City Challenge 2.0, which was launched in August 2023, the 20-member jury, made up of city representatives from over 4 cities and municipalities, nominated the most promising solutions and approaches from the more than 120 submissions. From the large number of interesting projects, 23 concepts were particularly convincing in terms of making…
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Nachhaltiges Bauen vorantreiben: Untersuchung der Auswirkungen von DGNB, LEVEL(s) und DIN auf das zirkuläre Bauen.
by Alethya Cuberos and Daniela Raffo Organizations like DGNB (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen), LEVEL(s), and DIN-Normenausschuss Bauwesen (NABau) (Standards Committee for Building and Civil Engineering), play significant roles in promoting sustainability, setting standards in the construction industry, and also shaping and promoting responsible approaches within the construction and building sectors. While the three entities…
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Studie: Geschäftsmodelle für kreislauforientiertes Bauen und Renovieren
Funders Commissioned by the German Energy Agency (Deutsche Energie-Agentur, dena) Partners Circular Berlin, Circular Structural Design and Concular GmbH. Dates July 2023 – November 2023 Get in touch Dina Padalkina CEO, Founder This study addresses the potential of the Circular Economy (CE). It provides an overview of the latest trends and concrete examples of construction…
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RundschreibenPSP: Ausschreibung ist eröffnet
The EU pre-commercial procurement project CircularPSP launched a €5.64 million tender (Contract Notice on TED) for Suppliers to design, develop and test an innovative ‘circular economy solution’ (CE-solution) that enables municipalities and their staff as well as businesses in the local economy to apply circular practice more quickly, frequently, widely and effectively. Individual users at City and Business are empowered…
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KI im Kreislaufbau: aktuelle Realität oder ein Konzept für die Zukunft?
by Alethya Cuberos Technologies for the construction sector to transition to the circular economy Along with the implementation of the circular economy strategies, such as extending building lifespans, redesigning with circularity in mind, reusing components, and recycling materials. We should also keep in mind the development of the new technologies that help to scale the…
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Weißbuch: Interaktives Planungswerkzeug für multidisziplinäre Planung mit wiederverwendbaren Bauteilen
Written by The construction industry faces the enormous challenge of significantly reducing negative environmental impacts on climate and resource consumption and, in addition to technical feasibility, also developing incentives for this necessary change. The increasing scarcity of resources calls for new and simple solutions to remove used resources from buildings with low CO2 emissions and…
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BuildSkills Academy für Übergangskompetenzen in der gebauten Umwelt
Funders Co-funded by the European Union, ERASMUS+ Programme under Grant Agreement number: 101104419 Partners 17 partners from 10 European countries Dates June 2023 – May 2027 Get in touch Daniela Raffo Senior project manager The BuildSkills Academy aims to upgrade knowledge and skills related to the green and digital transitions, focusing on the construction sector….
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3D-Druck: ein neuer technologischer Weg für Kreislauflösungen im Bauwesen?
by Tabitha Ashley Opondo Technologies for the construction sector to transition to the circular economy The construction industry has long been known for its unsustainable practices, with buildings often being designed and constructed with little regard for their environmental impact. However, as concerns about climate change and resource depletion continue to grow, there is a…
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CircularPSP: Öffentliche Dienstleistungsplattformen für zirkuläre und widerstandsfähige Kommunen
Funders European Union’s Horizon Europe Pre- Commercial Procurement Programme, under Grant Agreement n° 101092208 Partners Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, TAGES, Circular Berlin, Forum Virium Helsinki, Sandyford Business District, Câmara Municipal de Guimarães, Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions, Skupnost občin Slovenije, empirica, RISE Dates January 2023 – 2026 Get in touch Dina Padalkina CEO, Founder…
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Circular City Challenge-der Ansatz, die Circular Economy in die Städte zu bringen
Initiator 1st round: Circular Berlin 2nd round: funded by Stuttgarter Klima‐Innovationsfonds Partners 1st round: Circular Munich, Circonnact, Materialkreislauf 2nd round: Circular Munich, Circonnact, Materialkreislauf, Fab City Hamburg, Creative Climate Cities Dates 1st round: November 2021–June 2022 2nd round: March 2023-May 2024 Get in touch Dina Padalkina CEO, Founder The Circular City Challenge aimed to connect promising…
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Multi-Stakeholder-Workshop zu kollaborativen Rücknahmesystemen für Textilien
In light of the incoming sustainability and circularity major legislations at national and European level, the German fashion industry needs to create new crucial partnerships with the textile reversible supply chain. Initiated by the German “Partnership for Sustainable Textiles” and in collaboration with the circularity agency “Closed Loop Fashion”, in a 4 days multi-stakeholder workshop…
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Circularity durch Zero Waste-Ansätze in der Hotel-Gastronomie
Funders Phase 1: VisitBerlin, Hans Sauer Stiftung Phase 2: VisitBerlin, Hiba Impulse Partners NEW STANDARD.STUDIO, Seminaris Hotel Dates Phase 1: December 2021 – February 2022 Phase 2: December 2022 – June 2023 Get in touch Dina Padalkina CEO, Founder The project aims to explore the best practices in the hospitality industry with a focus on…
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Die runden Ansätze für die Arbeit mit Aluminiumverbundplatten.
On 07-08.10, as part of the Haus der Materialisierung project, Material Mafia, together with Circular Berlin and TU Berlin, organised the second seminar and the workshop on the topic: Aluminium Dibond. An aluminium Dibond is a sandwich panel. It is known as a brand for a rigid composite material that belongs to the manufacturer 3A Composites, Singen. In our…
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A-gain Guide: textile Lösungen für Berliner Verbraucher*innen
Funders Senat MVKU, Senat WEB, Postcode Lotterie Partners LoopLook, Büro Bum Bum, Cecilia Palmer, New Standard Studio Dates From June 2021 Get in touch Arianna Nicoletti Textiles & Education Lead Our A-gain Guide is a digital platform, designed to guide the user through the best options to locally repair, reuse and recycle their unwanted clothes…
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Eine Kreislaufwirtschaft für Elektronik in Berlin: Wie kann das Potenzial der Stadt genutzt werden?
With continuous digitalisation, increasing affordability of products and rapid urbanisation, cities produce enormous amounts of electronic waste. Read more about framing the electronics sector here. BSR’s recycling centers separately collect a total of around 4 kg per person per year of old electrical equipment (Source). Berlin looks at the diverse options of the collection of…
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Warum sollten wir uns für Drucktücher interessieren?
On 03-04.06, as part of the Haus der Materialisierung project, Material Mafia, together with Circular Berlin and TU Berlin, organised the first seminar and the workshop on the topic of Printing Blankets You would ask: Printing Blankets? The rubber printing blanket is used in the process of offset printing. It is stretched around a printing…
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Die Definition des Elektroniksektors: Ein erster Schritt zur Verbesserung der Kreislaufwirtschaft in diesem Sektor.
The consensus is clear: electronics are one of the fastest growing waste streams in the world in terms of volume and environmental impact. For us, Circular Berlin, it was essential to start diving into this sector seeing the urgency it has for more circularity. With the help of five students from Utrecht University, we took…
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Studie: Berliner Kreiselektronik
Initiator Circular Berlin Partners FixFirst, Utrecht University Dates April 2021 – July 2021 Get in touch The project explored the current circular electronics ecosystem of Berlin and identified near-future directions that the city of Berlin could pursue to increase circularity. The challenge With continuous digitalisation, increasing affordability of products and rapid urbanisation, cities produce enormous…
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Kreislaufende Materialsysteme: Dokumentation von Kreislaufbauverfahren
Funders In collaboration with TU Berlin and many other contributors Partners Georg Hubmann, Vera van Maaren and Circular Berlin Dates March 2021 – May 2024 Get in touch Dina Padalkina CEO, Founder Julius Schäufele Circular construction consultant With this project, we want to advance the awareness of construction practitioners about buildings with circular principles and…
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CE-Strategien in Bauprojekten: Erkenntnisse aus Neubauten und Umgestaltungen von Gebäuden
Shifting from business as usual towards circular economy principles in the construction sector is a long path. To do this: However, most importantly, the mindset of the construction sector’s actors has to shift, to stand behind that change. Over this year, we ran online workshops with a diverse group of stakeholders, to create new ways…
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Die Schritte zur Verwirklichung der Kreislaufwirtschaft bei Bauprojekten
In 2020 Circular Berlin is part of the project City Loops, with such partners as Provadis Hochschule (Germany), Wuppertal Institute (Germany), CleanTech Bulgaria (Bulgaria), Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (United Kingdom). The core of the project is to bring circular economy thinking for the practitioners using advanced circular economy tools such as circularity compass, structural waste…
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Bericht: Kreislaufwirtschaft in Berlins Bauwesen
Written by Last year Circular Berlin took part in a big project run together with EIT Climate-KIC, building a circular construction ecosystem in Berlin. Of course building the ecosystem is not a one year task, it is a long way to go, but we are glad to keep the ball rolling. During 2019 Circular Berlin…
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Von Räumen lernen oder wie Räume das kreisförmige Bauen unterstützen können
Together with the Urban Ideation Lab at B-Part Am Gleisdreieck on August 22, 2019, Circular Berlin discussed the topic of spaces and how the use of space in the building can underpin circular construction. To accelerate the transformation from linear to circular economy in the construction sector, there is an urgency to deploy circular business…
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Ergebnisse des Workshops: Berlin Circular Fashion Ansatz
At the beginning of 2019 Circular Berlin and Future Fashion Forward e.V. teamed up to organize the fourth and last workshop of the Circular Berlin event series targeting the issues of local waste streams in Berlin and bringing together municipalities and industry actors in different fields. After looking at the Construction Industry, at Material Urban Remanufacturing specifics…
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Studie: Berlins Ökosystem der Kreislaufwirtschaft
Funders EIT Climate-KIC Dates May 2019 – December 2019 Get in touch Dina Padalkina CEO, Founder The project Berlin’s Circular Construction Ecosystem aimed to identify leverage points in Berlin’s construction sector, which stakeholders can use to enable a circular economy in the city. The challenge Berlin remains a construction hotspot in Germany, however its booming…
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Ergebnisse des Workshops: Kreislaufwirtschaft in der Berliner Lebensmittelbranche
On the 26.02 Circular Berlin together with the partners Berlin Partner für Wirtschaft und Technologie, visitBerlin, HealthCapital, and BeShared hosted our third multi-stakeholder workshop on the topic of Circular Economy potentials for Food and Biomass streams in Berlin and Berlin religion. The challenges of food waste, unsustainable agriculture and alternative ways of dealing with the biomass were addressed during the…
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Ergebnisse des Workshops: Zentrum für urbane Wiederaufbereitung
On the 06.12 Circular Berlin together with the CURE project partners (TU Berlin – Chair for Circular Economy and Recycling Technologies, Material Mafia, and OMA e.V.) hosted a workshop on the topic of Berlin Center for Urban REmanufacture. Already during the preparation phase, we were more than excited to receive more than 100 registrations from…
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Ergebnisse des Workshops: Zirkuläres Bauen in Berlin
On the 20.11 Circular Berlin together with EIT Climate-KIC hosted a workshop on the topic of Circular Construction. Among others, the objective was to discuss current challenges for this field and what the potentials are to set Berlin Construction on the circular rails. Circular Construction is an approach, which requires a lot of discussion and…
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Entwicklung einer Circular Economy Agenda für Berlin
Funders EIT Climate-KIC Partners Circular Berlin Dates April-August 2018 Get in touch Dina Padalkina CEO, Founder The Circular Berlin project started as an exploratory study at the start of 2018, with the idea to establish a coordinated network that connects key stakeholders in order to have more influence on local policies and regulations in the…
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Schulung Bauen für Morgen: Baustoffkreisläufe verstehen
Funders EIT Climate-KIC Partners Provadis Hochschule (Germany), Wuppertal Institute (Germany), CleanTech Bulgaria (Bulgaria), Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (United Kingdom) Dates October 2019 – December 2020 Get in touch Dina Padalkina CEO, Founder The Bauen für Morgen training program is part of the City Loops project aiming to provide professional training programs across Europe to…