Creative Circular Cities – Promoting circular transition at local level by involving the Culture & Creative Sectors and Industries

Circular transition at local level is the key first step towards a comprehensive Circular Economy (CE), as it allows a “system change” that integrates the production & consumption side at manageable scale. However, concrete practices for this are still rare in the BSR.

Cultural and Creative Sectors & Industries (CCSI) can be both facilitators of circular consumption and frontrunners for circular production: As a social force, they have great influence on the mind sets of people and can promote “circular lifestyles”. At the same time, they are a business field with high innovation potential that can support circular business models. CCSI, therefore, can be drivers for a comprehensive circular transition at the local level.

CCC initiates a transnational co-creation process, in which 6 demo cities (Aarhus / DK, Riga /
LV, Gdynia / PL, Turku / FI, Tallinn / EE, Kiel / DE) will jointly develop & test CCSI-driven approaches for an integrated circular transition. In each of them, local authorities, business support organisations and NGOs team up to
-launch enabling environments for CCSI-driven circular transition,
-help businesses to create CCSI-supported circular business models,
-promote “circular lifestyles” with CCSI assistance.

The results are processed into a “CCC Starter Kit”. It gives interested actors in other BSR cities concrete guidance to involve CCSI into circular transition and is pro-actively disseminated to them. A “CCC Policy Roadmap” facilitates dialogue with policy makers on potentials of the approach & support needs.

Objectives

Duration (päivämäärinä):	01.11.2023 – 31.10.2026
Project manager:	Markus Suomi
Email:	markus.suomi@humak.fi
Partners:	Main partners Danish Cultural Institute City of Aarhus – Climate Secretariat Riga Energy Agency Pomeranian Science and Technology Park Gdynia | Design Centre Gdynia City of Turku Valonia / Regional Council of Southwest Finland Tallinn Business Incubators – Tallinn Creative Incubator Zero Waste Kiel e.V.
Funder:	EU: Baltic Sea Region
Budget:	> 100 000 – 300 000 euroa