Holland Circular Hotspot

📣 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! 📣 We are excited to announce that registration for the event is now open!  Join us for the Wales Circular hotspot event on October 7th-9th in Cardiff! ♻️During the event, we will share Wales’ circular economy achievements and aspirations, and learn about circular economy solutions from the public sector, private sector, and communities from Wales and beyond. 💡You will have the opportunity to directly engage with Welsh projects across industry, business, public bodies, academia, and our towns and cities. We look forward to welcoming circular economy innovators, leaders, and thinkers from across the world, to further build relationships and open up opportunities for international collaboration. A detailed program of events and speakers will be released in the coming weeks, in the meantime please register to join us at the link above. There will be a warm welcome – croeso – for all! 🔗Register here!: https://lnkd.in/exzBHQze #Circulareconomy #Sustainability #Innovation #Wales #HollandCircularHotspot

Congratulations to our circular friends in Canada on organizing the first North American Hotspot Event! HCH director Freek van Eijk van Eijk shares his experience ⤵️

Workshop Recap: Advancing the Bioeconomy in the Delta Region Last week, HCH, in collaboration with the Province of Zeeland Anita de Moor, and supported by Willem Sederel and ICLEI, Malen Otero, organized and delivered a pivotal workshop to determine the first steps for co-developing a bioeconomy strategy for the Delta Region. The workshop is a crucial step to engage the quadruple helix in developing the Delta Region's Bioeconomy Blueprint under Biomodel4Regions. 💡 The discussions were diverse and insightful, thanks to the balanced representation of private sector, public sector, and research & knowledge institutions. Participants brought various perspectives from different roles in the value chain. This diversity was essential for tackling the major challenges in advancing the bioeconomy, such as technical, scaling-up issues and adapting consumer behavior, as emphasized by Ralph Pessers, from Wageningen University & Research. Jo-Annes de Bat, Provincial Executive of Zeeland, emphasized that regional bioeconomy development is achievable even with limited space, provided that priorities are effectively managed. The key takeaway is that the workshop's discussions have opened up new pathways for solutions, setting the stage for collaborative opportunities and potential project proposals under the CBE JU Horizon Europe call. 🗓️ Next steps will be to draft the Blueprint and involve the key stakeholders to ensure a realistic, feasible, and desirable document is produced that reflects the needs and opportunities for the Bioeconomy in the Delta Region. 📣 We are also excited to announce that HCH is now a member of the Biobased Industry Consortium (BIC), representing SMEs. Want to make your voice heard and be considered for EU proposals? Join us! Provincie Zeeland, BioBased Circular, Rick Passenier, Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC), Dirk Carrez, DG research & innovation, Jorge Molina Villanueva and LGCA - Lombardy Green Chemistry Cluster, Ilaria Re. Moa Jonsson Heyd Más Luca Polidori Freek van Eijk

🌍 Exciting News! 🌍 🎉🇲🇽We're thrilled to announce that Mexico has been selected to host the North and Central America Circular Economy Hotspot 2025! 🇲🇽Mexico will proudly join the ranks of distinguished hosts such as the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Scotland, Belgium, Catalonia, Nord Rhine Westphalia, Dublin, Lagos, Chile, and Canada, showcasing its leadership on the global circular stage. 🌟 Get ready for an inspiring event filled with innovative practices, transformative policies, and collaborative efforts that will drive the circular economy forward. Let's make 2025 a year of groundbreaking progress in sustainability! 🔊 Stay tuned for more updates as we gear up for this highly anticipated event. Plus, in the meantime, we invite everyone to follow the CE Hotspots news for this year’s upcoming CE Hotspot events in the coming months. 🌎 Wales, South Africa, and Brazil will host these inspiring and transformative events. In 2025, the CE Hotspot events will be held on at least four continents, of which Slovenia, Ethiopia, and now Mexico have already been confirmed. 🌱🔄 🔗 For more information please check out our website: https://lnkd.in/efJ7Ms8Q Freek van Eijk Stéphanie Schuitemaker Colin Isaacs Alejandra Sánchez Ayala Rob Oomen #CircularEconomy #Sustainability #Mexico2025 #CEHotspot #GlobalLeadership #CircularEconomyHotspot #Innovation

🌍 Exciting News! 🌍 🎉🇲🇽We're thrilled to announce that Mexico has been selected to host the North and Central America Circular Economy Hotspot 2025! 🇲🇽Mexico will proudly join the ranks of distinguished hosts such as the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Scotland, Belgium, Catalonia, Nord Rhine Westphalia, Dublin, Lagos, Chile, and Canada, showcasing its leadership on the global circular stage. 🌟 Get ready for an inspiring event filled with innovative practices, transformative policies, and collaborative efforts that will drive the circular economy forward. Let's make 2025 a year of groundbreaking progress in sustainability! 🔊 Stay tuned for more updates as we gear up for this highly anticipated event. Plus, in the meantime, we invite everyone to follow the CE Hotspots news for this year’s upcoming CE Hotspot events in the coming months. 🌎 Wales, South Africa, and Brazil will host these inspiring and transformative events. In 2025, the CE Hotspot events will be held on at least four continents, of which Slovenia, Ethiopia, and now Mexico have already been confirmed. 🌱🔄 🔗 For more information please check out our website: https://lnkd.in/efJ7Ms8Q Freek van Eijk Stéphanie Schuitemaker Colin Isaacs Alejandra Sánchez Ayala Rob Oomen #CircularEconomy #Sustainability #Mexico2025 #CEHotspot #GlobalLeadership #CircularEconomyHotspot #Innovation

🗣️ FOLLOW THE LIVESTREAM OF THE CANADA CIRCULAR HOTSPOT PROGRAM! ✨ Today the Canada Circular Hotspot event is kicking off in Guelph, Canada. On the 25th and 26th of June 15.00 - 23.00h CET the event can be followed by livestream on YouTube. ♻️ The event will highlight government, companies and industries that are exploring and implementing sustainable practices and solutions. Topics within the program include: - Environmental management, sustainable development, ISO 14000, CSR, or ESG programs - Food production, processing, packaging: Seeking sustainable practices. - Construction, land development:  Aiming for eco-friendly solutions. - Plastics, manufacturing: Interested in circular economy models. - General manufacturing: Reducing environmental impact. - Residuals management (wastewater): Seeking sustainable waste solutions. - Textiles: Aiming for sustainable production. - Mining & metals: Exploring circular resource management. 🌟Plus keynote speakers, including our very own Freek van Eijk (Tuesday @ 9am Toronto time). 🔗 The livestream will be available on YouTube at https://lnkd.in/g4puhss7 free of charge. A recorded and edited version of the Canada Hotspot event will be available in a few weeks on the same website. Holland Circular Hotspot Stéphanie Schuitemaker Colin Isaacs Marjan Lahuis Delila Tesfai University of Guelph Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Canada #Canada #Netherlands #CircularEconomy #SustainableDevelopment #ESG

Busy and happy times for Holland Circular Hotspot. We recently had incoming delegations from Slovenia at BlueCity (010) on Food, construction and energy and from Finland at the PROVADA (on Low Carbon Built Environment). We participated in inspiring business driven sessions from the DSGCoalition (on Leadership) and from the NLExpo2025 - Netherlands participation at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan. Next week we will guide a delegation at the Circular Economy Showcase: Canada's Hotspot for Business Innovation (Circular Economy Hotspot Week in Guelp) and we will have Japanese vistors at our office. Next Week we will also set up camp in the province Zeeland for our EU project Biomodel4Regions for a full day with workshops on #AdvancingRegionalBioeconomy. In all this we will never forget to interact with our biggest and closest neighbour! With the support of Germany Trade & Invest and the German-Dutch Chamber of Commerce (DNHK) our CEO Freek van Eijk participated in the "German-Dutch Forum on Bioeconomy and Recycling". Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was in the spotlight of the international stage in Amsterdam. We enjoyed the panel discussion, moderated by Aldo Lodder with Ingeborg Gort (Director Strategy & Processes at the consulting firm Partners for Innovation), Freek van Eijk (Director, Holland Circular Hotspot), Beatrice Großjohann (Managing Director Bioeconomy Center Anklam ), Britta Wyss Bisang (Global Sustainability Director, Schoeller Allibert) and Drea Berghorst Berghorst (MD Netherlands, PlasticsEurope Nederland). Thank you Thomas Einsfelder and team! Stay tuned with us for more updates. We are looking forward to more visits and are very happy to exchange further on anything circular.

✨Looking back: Slovenian-Dutch Business Delegation Trade Event 🇸🇮🇳🇱 Two weeks ago, the Slovenian delegation trade event, co-organized by Slovene Dutch Business Platform - SDBP and Holland Circular Hotspot, was an incredible success! With 33 Slovenian companies and nearly 80 participants, the event featured vibrant business matchmaking and inspiring showcases from both countries, focusing on three key themes: #sustainablefood, #energy, and #circularconstruction. The event was held in BlueCity (010), a hub of circularity in Rotterdam. Freek van Eijk contributed significantly by organizing and moderating the food panel, highlighting circular practices and inspiring models. This was followed by the energetic workshop on the power of a circular economy to connect the building, food, and energy sectors, facilitated by our special envoy, Vesna Lavtizar, PhD Lavtizar.  🤝 In her opening speech, Sabine Rau-Oberhuber emphasized the importance of extending circular value chains beyond borders: "The circular economy is about creating circular value chains, and they are by definition something which stretches beyond national borders. In that respect, I'm very pleased we have this delegation here." This encapsulated one of the day’s key takeaways: the importance of collaboration. To conclude the event, the delegation visited FoodX Netherlands, which included inspiring presentations on Agrifood innovations within Foodvalley NL and a virtual reality experience of the food of the future. #circulareconomy #food #construction #energy #delegation #businessdevelopment #businessmodels #slovenia #internationalexchange Edo Sternad Franc Matjaž (Tičo) Zupančič Luka Šinkovec Leo Swart Vesna Lavtizar, PhD Freek van Eijk Marko Sladojevic Rok Sternad Johan O. Verboom Jožef Drofenik Sabine Rau-Oberhuber Lindy Hensen Igor Kos Jan Westra Leon Van der Burg

Expo 2025 is just 300 days away! This week an important Osaka Expo business event took place in the beautiful City Hall of Leiden. An event with Minister Liesje Schreinemacher, together with Ambassador Minami from Embassy of Japan in the Netherlands, VNO-NCW President Ingrid Thijssen and Osaka Consul general Marc Kuipers The Expo will take place from April 13 to October 13, 2025 in Osaka, Japan. The Dutch Expo 2025 team did an amazing Job in presenting the progress of the Expo preparations and presenting the programming of this six month event. Designing a Future Society will be a central element of the Expo. The Netherlands will be hosting one of the 50 pavilions. The Netherlands are dedicated to establish a Common Ground where we solve global challenges together. As the Consul general mentioned: You are all welcome to join us on this amazing journey on our Road2Osaka! As Holland Circular Hotspot we would like to support the organisers and built upon our experiences Expo 2020 Dubai where we organised a series of three CE events and engaged with Dutch, European and Global players. #CircularEconomy will again be a central theme during the Future of Earth and Biodiversity Week. The Circular Focus of The Netherlands will be on the built environment and from September 21-25, 2025 a circular mission will be organised. Also interesting from our perspective will be the focus on sustainable chemistry with a mission likely to be planned in the summer of 2025. Let us know your ideas for the Expo. How can we make your circular solutions shine at this global stage? Warm thanks to the - The consortium working on our pavilion: RAU, Tellart, DGMR and the Osaka-based construction company ASANUMA CORPORATION - Van der Linde Food-Catering-Events, who are diligently preparing the operational and venue management of our pavilion. - Special thanks to the Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, Netherlands Enterprise Agency Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Japan . #Expo2025 #Innovation #Collaboration #TeamWork #LeidenEvent #300DaysToGo #Netherlands #Japan #ExpoTeam #Road2Osaka #Countdown #SolvingGlobalChallengesTogether #CommonGround NLExpo2025 - Netherlands participation at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan Thomas M. Rau Sabine Rau-Oberhuber Willeke van der Dussen Pieter Terpstra Aino Jansen Vesna Lavtizar, PhD ECESP Circular Economy Queeny I. Robin van der Schuyt @Jan-Paul Kroese FIH Paul Verbraak Ryunosuke Mochizuki Rio Suezawa Merlan van Holten Freek van Eijk Stéphanie Schuitemaker Luca Polidori Heyd Más Anca Turtoi Agate Brandelet Delila Tesfai Peter Berben

*** DEADLINE POSTPONED TO JUNE 23*** 📣 LAST CALL! 📣 The deadline to become the next North/Central American is tomorrow June 19th,2024 so send in your proposals today to become the next Circular Hotspot Host! 🌍This event celebrates groundbreaking circular economy initiatives. It’s a melting pot of ideas and experiences, bringing together policymakers, entrepreneurs, researchers, and industry leaders from around the world. ✨ Take your chance to showcase your region’s cutting-edge circular practices—from innovative business models and industrial solutions to forward-thinking policies. Each host curates a unique program showcasing their contributions to a circular economy transition. It's a platform to put your region on the global map! 📅 Click the link to apply now! https://lnkd.in/e7CSJTnS #CircularEconomy #Hotspot2025 #Sustainability #Innovation #NorthAmerica #CentralAmerica #OpenCall #ApplyNow Circular Economy Showcase: Canada's Hotspot for Business Innovation Planet Ark Netherlands Freek van Eijk Stéphanie Schuitemaker Colin Isaacs Marjan Lahuis