Improving soil health by Living Labs
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
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
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
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
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
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 Study Centre…
How to enable circular economy?
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!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
EMU participates at a circular economy conference in Estonia
The Estonian Ministry of the Environment organised a Circular economy conference on 19-20 January 2022. This year’s conference was the third such event conducted by the Ministry of the Environment,…
WP1: A circular approach to ideas
The project CIRCLE aims to take an interdisciplinary perspective on circular resource use in and between agricultural, aquaculture and forestry. This means that, in addition to tackling the complexities of…
Greetings from the kick-off meeting
The CIRCLE project was launched during the project’s kick-off meeting on 17-18 October 2021. The meeting brought together all five project partners from four countries: Baltic Studies Centre (Latvia), the…