Circular design as a driver for a future-proof economy
- December 18, 2025 |
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Companies taking circular steps have the wind in their sails. They are reducing their carbon footprint and strengthening their business. They manage to bind employees and customers better, use raw materials and energy more efficiently, thus saving costs and having less impact on the climate and the environment. They can realize their own sustainability and business ambitions while complying with new laws and regulations. They enjoy the benefits now and are better prepared for the future.
So do you want to make circular strides as an organization? Then Circonnect will help you move forward.
Working together towards a future-proof economy. With our open source tools, knowledge publications, workshops, and CIRCO Tracks, we support individual companies, chains, and sectors.
Circonnect offers practical tools and applicable knowledge in the field of circular design. With these, we bridge the gap between rules and reality and between science and the shop floor. For individual companies, but also for multiple companies within a chain. So that entrepreneurs and designers can easily get to work with circular design.
It doesn't matter how far along you are in the transformation from linear to circular working. Whether you are yet to make the first step or are already further along in the journey. Circonnect provides support from a standardized and proven core process. At any point in your circular journey.
From idea to product, from design to production and from individual company to together with the chain. If you want to move forward with circular, as a company you often run into new design questions. What is actually the environmental impact of my offering? How do I calculate the residual value of products I take back? How can I collaborate better with chain partners?
Circonnect has tools that give you practical guidance on the specific issues relevant to you. You can start working with these yourself via our online training program, in which you discover step by step how to use these tools optimally and what this delivers in concrete terms. In many cases, you can also discover the tools in an interactive workshop, in which, under the guidance of an experienced trainer and together with other companies, you work on the implementation challenges that play a role in your company.
For entrepreneurs and designers who want to get started with circular design or prepare for new regulations, Circonnect offers practical tools as well as in-depth knowledge. Up-to-date and (scientifically) substantiated. This makes it easier for you to explore the possibilities of circular design.
With our tools, workshops, and webinars, we help you to:
Is circular design still uncharted territory for you, but would you like to learn more? Then you can get started with the Circular Design Starter Kit. In it we guide you through the basics of circular design.
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In the Circonnect program, we join forces with knowledge institutions, industry associations, the design sector, regional accelerators, and government organizations. We make knowledge about circular design available in an applicable form and share it widely with companies and designers. With practical tools, applicable knowledge items, and events for specific industries and target groups, we bridge the gap between rules and reality and between science and the workplace.