Project Description
Circ@Home aims to promote circularity on three levels: the Town-Home-Service triangle. This integrated approach targets municipalities, the services within them and, most importantly, households. The holistic approach of linking all three points of the triangle shows how together they can drive their respective circularity by adopting sustainable solutions, changing their lifestyles and positively influencing each other.
The challenge lies in adopting these behavioral changes, which requires clear solution options, applicability to various cases and a working link between households, municipalities & services. Partial solutions cannot work. Circ@Home will, therefore, overcome these barriers by prototyping solutions & testing them in pilots in different contexts. Such contexts will include the differences between food & non-food products and improvements along the R-strategies towards circularity.
The concept of Circularity Hubs will be introduced as a step towards an integrated approach to reach all three points of the triangle equally & holistically.
A training program on the set of solutions will transfer the project outcomes to local multipliers. Easier access and training on circular solutions will enable households, municipalities and services to work together on circularity by better integrating circularity in their activities, encouraging them to reduce their environmental footprint, and shaping their behavior to change towards a circular economy for climate change.
Project Details
Implementation Period: - 01/03/2025 – 29/02/2028
Funding/ Programme – Interreg Baltic Sea Region, Climate-Neutral Societies, Circular Economy Priority
Budget - Total project budget 3 703 778.00 EUR, ViA budget - 175 500.00 EUR.
Partners - 19 partners un 14 asoc partners
4 countries (Germany, Finland, Estonia, Latvia)
Lead partner: Kiel University
ViA loma: WP3 and GoA management (training, work with households in Latvia, transfer of project results)
ViA team : Aija van der Steina, Ilze Grīnfelde, Linda Veliverronena, Laura Fišere
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Project Activities & Reports
Activities are implemented in three stages:
Solution development
Three interrelated models are being developed:
- A circular household model that helps residents assess and improve their consumption habits.
- A circular services model that encourages entrepreneurs to offer sharing, repair, and recycling solutions.
- A local circularity center model that provides municipalities with guidelines for establishing neighborhood circularity centers.
Piloting
Project partners in eight cities, including Valmiera and Riga, will test solutions in real-life conditions:
- Pilot projects for food and non-food consumption in households, in cooperation with local service providers.
- Establishment and testing of circularity centers to promote cooperation between residents, businesses, and local governments.
Transfer and dissemination of solutions
Training materials, a compilation of good practice examples, and policy recommendations will be developed. An international campaign, "Circularity Champions of the Baltic Sea Region," will be launched to inspire change across the region.
Project deliverables:
During the implementation of the project, practical solutions will be developed and tested that will enable the transition to a sustainable lifestyle and circular consumption in cities and neighborhoods:
- A "Circular Household Model" has been developed with guidelines on how households can become more environmentally friendly in their daily lives.
- A service model has been developed to help businesses and non-governmental organizations offer circular solutions (sharing, repair, reuse services).
- Local circularity hubs have been established and tested in eight partner cities, including Valmiera, as community spaces for creative collaboration and behavioral change.
- A final solution, "Urban Circularity Triangle: Town–Home–Services," has been formulated, showing how cities, residents, and services can work together to achieve climate neutrality.
- Educational materials and examples of good practice were developed to make the solutions easily applicable in other cities in the Baltic Sea region.
- A communication campaign, Circularity Champions of the Baltic Sea Region, has been carried out, highlighting inspiring examples and promoting circular thinking in society.
Policy recommendations have been developed for local and regional decision-makers to support long-term change.
