News – CIRCLE

Summer conferences

By BSC August 29, 2023News

Authors: Anda Adamsone-Fiskovica, Mikelis Grivins, Diana Mincyte, Pia Piroschka Otte, Sandra Šūmane, Talis Tisenkopfs For CIRCLE researchers, this summer was rich with conference attendance. CIRLCE results were presented in five…

Analysing socio-economic cost-benefits for circular business models in agriculture, forestry and aquaculture

By AREI August 1, 2023News

Authors: Alberts Auziņš, Ieva Leimane During the last couple of months, researchers from the Institute of Agricultural Resources and Economics (AREI) (Latvia) have been engaged in several activities of the…

Local biogas plant shows circularity in practice

By Jostein Brobakk July 12, 2023News

At the Svanem biogas plant in Hellandsjøen in Heim municipality, biogas and high-quality biofertilizer are produced based on local bioresources. The founder behind the village facility is the local farmer…

Consumer attitudes towards the circular economy

By Vilnius University June 15, 2023News

Authors: Aistė Bartkienė, Renata Bikauskaitė, Diana Mincytė, Ieva Šakelaitė One of the key objectives of the CIRCLE project, specifically within Work Package 4 (WP4), is to investigate consumers' knowledge and…

Biogas from manure, sugars from the wood: innovative circular business cases from Estonia

By Svetlana Shvaichenko May 31, 2023News

The unique technologies for the production of energy from cattle slurry and grass silage by “BIOMETAAN OÜ” and cutting-edge processes in making a new generation of sugars and high purity…

New CIRCLE team members from Ukraine

By BSC April 27, 2023News

Authors: Sandra Šūmane, Oksana Žabko, Svetlana Shvaichenko, Yuliia Pastushenko Since April 2023, Svetlana Shvaichenko and Yuliia Pastushenko joined the BSC team. Both are Ukrainians and are living in Latvia for one year.…

Three case studies from Estonia

By Kristina Hiir April 7, 2023News

In the last months we have been very busy at the University of Life Science (EMÜ). What is the the most important is that we have met the representatives of…

Typology of intra- and cross-sectoral circularity initiatives in agriculture, aquaculture and forestry

By Anda Ādamsone-Fiskoviča March 14, 2023News

The interdisciplinary team of CIRCLE researchers have jointly identified and gathered information on a set of over 100 initiatives intra- and cross-sectoral circularity in agriculture, forestry and aquaculture (AFA) in…

News from AREI team

By Alberts Auziņš March 7, 2023News

Institute of Agricultural Resources and Economics (AREI) has been engaged in numerous activities of the CIRCLE project during the last months. The most recent activities are related to Work Package…

Improving soil health by Living Labs

By Egil Petter Stræte January 13, 2023News

Soil health is an essential element of circular economy when farming is involved. Missions and efforts are launched to improve the soil health in several countries and in the EU…

Implementation of circular economy in Lithuania: Three case studies

By Vilnius University January 3, 2023News

Aistė Bartkienė, Renata Bikauskaitė, Diana Mincytė As part of the CIRCLE project, our team will be collaborating with three companies in Lithuania implementing circular economy principles. Three companies agreed to…

Studying circular business initiatives

By Miķelis Grīviņš December 1, 2022News

The CIRCLE project consists of several research activities. However, at the core of the CIRCLE project is a set of case studies, that are expected to generate data to be…

Discovering the potential of biogas production in Southeast of Estonia

By Kristina Hiir November 2, 2022News

University of Life Science is working hard increasing knowledge and contributing to projects that promote circular economy and support sustainable environment in Estonia. An important contribution is to promote local…

Exploratory visit in circular bioeconomy sites

By BSC October 25, 2022News

BSC team together with the students from the University of Latvia went on an exploratory tour to inquire about circular use of bioresources on the farm Lielkrūzes, sawmill of Stora…

News from AREI team

By Alberts Auziņš September 29, 2022News

During the last months, Institute of agricultural resources and economics (AREI) has been engaged in numerous activities of the CIRCLE project. First, AREI team in cooperation with Baltic Studies Centre…

How to enable circular economy?

By Sandra Šūmane September 19, 2022News

On 5 September CIRLCE organised an online discussion “Rethinking circularity in bioeconomy: challenges, good practices and future perspectives”. This online event aimed to provide insight into good circular practices in…

New member of the CIRCLE-project!

By Femke van Laarhoven August 29, 2022News

I would like to introduce myself as a new member of the CIRCLE project. My name is Femke and I’m from the Netherlands. I’m an Innovation Management master student at…

Rethinking circularity in bioeconomy

By Sandra Šūmane August 24, 2022News

Online discussion 5 September 14:00-16:00 (CET) on Zoom platform. Registration link: here. In the context of bioeconomy, circular solutions are considered a means to address climate and environmental challenges, and…

The search for the ethical dimension in the circular economy

By Vilnius University August 8, 2022News

Authors: Aiste Bartkiene, Renata Bikauskaite, Diana Mincyte At the end of July and the beginning of August, WP4 team from the Vilnius University participated in the summer school in Oslo,…

First CIRCLE face-to-face meeting in Riga

By Talis Tisenkopfs June 27, 2022News

Why circular use of bioresources within and across agriculture, forestry and aquaculture is relatively little reflected in media and public debate despite historical and widely applied practices among businesses? Why…

The course towards circular economy in Estonia

By EMU May 31, 2022News

Estonia is in the process of developing its circular economy roadmap. The goal for Estonia is to be a smart country driving a circular economy. However, as for today, everyone…

Work for CIRCLE by AREI team

By Alberts Auziņš April 29, 2022News

The Institute of Agricultural Resources and Economics (AREI) brings the economic, financial and policy analysis expertise in the CIRCLE project to study circular bioeconomy. The institute has contributed to different…

Circle of feed across sectors

By Egil Petter Stræte April 1, 2022News

One of the goals of CIRCLE is to contribute with more knowledge about how biological resources from one sector can be used in another sector. Preferably we are talking about…

ESRS2022 congress satellite event on circular bioeconomy in Riga: Call for papers

By BSC March 14, 2022News

In cooperation with the European Society for Rural Sociology (ESRS) Baltic Studies Centre organizes a ESRS2022 congress online satellite event "Rethinking circularity: an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral perspective on circular practices…

Circular economy in Lithuania: challenges, opportunities, and NGO perspectives

By Vilnius University March 1, 2022News

According to the Lithuanian Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology, four out of five Lithuanian companies are still practicing linear economy based on an intensive use of raw materials and…