CIRCONOMY initiative sets out to build a harmonised monitoring framework and a user-friendly digital tool that make circularity measurable and actionable for municipalities, businesses, households, and policymakers across Europe.

The goal

Europe’s circular economy ambitions are clear, but progress at the local and organisational level is hard to track. Monitoring tools are fragmented, overly complex, or simply missing. CIRCONOMY addresses this by co-creating reliable, easy-to-use circularity indicators and putting them into the hands of those who need them most.

Main objectives

• Carry out a comprehensive review of existing circular economy frameworks to identify gaps, usability barriers, and opportunities for a harmonised approach to micro-level circularity monitoring.
• Develop a modular, user-centred monitoring framework and an intuitive digital tool that allows target groups to assess and improve their circularity performance.
• Test, refine, and validate the framework and tool through pilot studies and replication activities in municipal, industrial, and household contexts.
• Build stakeholder capacity through practical toolkits, targeted training programmes, and policy recommendations that support long-term adoption.
• Drive behavioural change and institutional uptake through targeted communication, dissemination, and exploitation activities.

What the project will deliver

CIRCONOMY’s outputs are designed to be practical and lasting:

• A micro-level circularity monitoring framework
  Modular, standardised, and designed to work across different sectors and governance levels, so that results are actually comparable.
• A user-centred digital tool
  Built to be accessible in daily practice, not just by researchers. Municipalities, small and medium-sized companies, and even individual households will be able to use it to track and improve their circularity performance.
• Pilot studies and replication activities
  Real-world testing across Europe to ensure the framework and tool work outside the lab.
• Toolkits and training modules
  Capacity-building resources tailored to different audiences, from local government officials to industry leaders and community organisations.
• Policy briefs and recommendations
  Targeted outputs to support evidence-based policymaking at local, national, and EU level.

Target groups

CIRCONOMY is built around four target groups:

1. Research and academia
   Circularity researchers, universities, and scientific communities looking for better indicators and methodologies
2. Industry and business
   Small and medium-sized enterprises, large corporations, financial institutions, and innovation hubs
3. Governance and policy makers
   Regional and municipal authorities, decision makers in public organisations, and policy makers
4. Civil society
   Local communities, consumers, Civil Society Organisations and Non-Governmental Organisations, and citizens

Project consortium

CIRCONOMY brings together 17 partners from 8 countries — Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Greece, Belgium, Lithuania, Slovakia, and Switzerland. Coordinated by Università degli Studi di Roma Unitelma Sapienza (UNIT), the consortium combines universities, research organisations, public authorities, municipalities, industry representatives, consumer organisations, sustainability networks, and innovation support organisations.

PEDAL Consulting’s role

PEDAL Consulting is leading the project’s Data Management and Capacity Building activities in CIRCONOMY – creating the toolkits, training materials, and stakeholder training sessions.

Beyond that, PEDAL actively contributes by providing feedback on the monitoring framework, supporting pilots, replication activities, and validation of results.

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Posted by admin on 17 June 2026