COMING SOON - MARCH 26
CIRCULOOS Open Call 2 & Open Call 3.1
🚀 New funding opportunities for circular economy innovations!
CIRCULOOS is excited to announce the launch of Open Call 2 (OC2) and Open Call 3.1 (OC3.1) on March 26, 2025. These funding opportunities aim to foster circular manufacturing by supporting innovative projects that enhance sustainability and supply chain circularity.
Why apply? 😁
✅ Receive up to €60,000 per partner for your innovation
✅ Build or scale circular supply chains and processes
✅ Collaborate with industry leaders, SMEs, and research centers
✅ Gain access to expert knowledge, digital tools, and the RAMP platform
✅ Contribute to a more sustainable and circular economy
🏗 Open Call 2 (OC2): Developing Circular Supply Chains
Overview
OC2 supports consortia of 2 to 4 partners in the design and implementation of Innovative Circular Supply Chains. It encourages collaboration among supply chain actors, manufacturers, recyclers, and technology providers to develop solutions in sectors such as metal, construction, electrical, furniture, leather, machinery, vehicles, wood, and plastic.
Key Details
Who can apply? SMEs, large companies, research organizations, and other stakeholders forming a consortium (2-4 partners).
Funding: Up to €60,000 per partner, with a maximum of €240,000 per consortium.
Project Duration: 12 months
Impact: Creation of new circular supply chains and cross-sector collaboration.
🔄 Open Call 3.1 (OC3.1): Enhancing Existing Pilot Lines
Overview
OC3.1 is dedicated to single entities looking to integrate innovative solutions into existing circular manufacturing pilot lines. This open call aims to enhance ongoing projects with new technologies, process optimizations, and sustainable practices.
Key Details
Who can apply? SMEs, startups, research centers, and technology providers applying individually.
Funding: Up to €60,000 per entity.
Project Duration: 9-12 months
Impact: Improving and scaling circular solutions within pilot lines.
Timeline
Launch Date: March 26, 2025
Deadline: May 28, 2025
Implementation Start: Q3 2025
🔗 How to Apply
Register your interest on the CIRCULOOS Open Calls page
Prepare your proposal using the provided guidelines.
Submit your application before the deadline.
Join matchmaking events via the RAMP platform to find partners and strengthen your consortium.
Expression of Interest (EOI) is still open!
Expression of Interest
Status: Open
CIRCULOOS Expression of Interest (EOI) aims to engage supply chain actors across various manufacturing industries (e.g., metal, construction, electrical, furniture, leather, machinery, vehicles, wood, plastic) that want to adopt circular practices with other complementary entities, forming Innovative Circular Supply Chains to position a new sustainable product/service. Circular practices can be refurbishing, remanufacturing, and repurposing (R-strategies), and may need to enhance regional collaboration trustworthy data sharing, and new collaborative tools to formulate and execute the intended circular product..
The EOI is an optional first step to help individual entities form teams towards a successful submission in Open Call#2 and #3. The objective of the EOI is to help single entities find the right partners and create new supply chains that create value towards the goals of the CIRCULOOS project.
Tools ⚙️
- Circuloos Data Platform: collects data from the production facilities by connecting IoT devices; data is sent to a central repository hosted by European Dynamics – respecting the ownership of data; data models have been created for the entities handled by the project; the experiments will need to extend these data models if different business entities are handled by the experiment
- Supply Chain Optimization tool (SCOPT): is a tool that collects data from the Data Platform to calculate the optimal (or optionally sub-optimal) solutions to optimize the intra-factory logistics of the pilot or the supply chain arrangement based on the available LCA indicators provided by the GRETA tool. The 3D visualization of the proposed solutions can be presented on the SCDT.
- Supply Chain Digital Twin (SCDT): is a tool that simulates the factory representation and the supply chain arrangement. Collecting data from the Data Platform provides a visualized representation of the supply chain presenting the factory inputs, outputs and internal processes as well as the interaction between the factories in the supply chain. SCDT can also simulate optimized solutions for the factory or the supply chain provided by the SCOPT.
- Supply Chain Orchestrator: Orchestrator of business and manufacturing processes using Business Process Models; it is backed by a cloud deployment of the Camunda Engine and uses standard Business Process Management Notation (BPMN)
- RAMP Marketplace: Acts as the entry point for accessing the technical tools of the Circuloos platform, the registration of businesses adopting circularity practices, their interaction (in the form of establishing new business relationships) and the finding of available resources or potential collaborators
- LifeCycle Assessment Tool (GRETA): Retrieves data, mainly LCI (Life Cycle Inventory), calculates environmental indicators, and reports these assessments back to the Circuloos Data Platform. This data can be utilized by other tools, such as Supply Chain Optimization, to perform various analyses and optimizations at both the factory process and supply chain levels. GRETA may also directly interact with end users, including sustainability experts from MSMEs, workers, and employees, through the front end, providing valuable insights into the environmental impacts of specific processes and products.
