The Plastic Pathway towards Circularity
It is a little over a year since the EU introduced a landmark directive limiting the production of single-use plastics. This set out a series of targets but allowed member states to introduce their own legislation to meet these goals. The Netherlands and Germany took this next step recently, announcing bans on certain single-use plastic […]
‘Loops’ First Episode on the Digital Circular Economy
On Wednesday 8th of July, we streamed live our first webinar for Loops, a webinar series about the innovation occurring in the field of the circular economy. Our speakers, Dr Demetriou and Vasilis Katos, both outlined key elements of their work on the circular economy and highlighted the necessary steps and precautions, the future holds. […]
Veltha’s Partners for EU Annual Kermesse: Smooth Ports and Interreg Europe
In line with our commitment to the #EURegionsweek 2020 Veltha has an exciting new partnership. As a communications manager of the REPLACE project, we will share a stand with the Smooth Ports project and Interreg Europe at the most important annual kermesse (festival) of European Territorial Cooperation. This event will happen later this year. Smooth […]
Loops First Webinar: Wednesday 8th of July at 11 am CET
What is Loops? We are pleased to introduce our newest public events initiative: ‘Loops’, a webinar series about the research and results that Horizon 2020 is producing in the field of circular economy. Horizon 2020 is an EU research program, which has nurtured innovation in a number of fields by funding over 10 000 research […]
First results from the Regions and Stakeholders meetings in the Policy Lab, join the second!
The Policy Lab 2.0 has been launched in the month of June with an ambitious goal: to provide solutions to the challenges the European Regions face while implementing Circular Economy (CE) programs. Circular Economy is an abstract term with many different definitions, which causes different types of analysis depending on the institution involved. Thus, the […]
Veltha’s Position on a European Green Deal
At Veltha, we are proud to be part of a European community which recognises the need for a Green Deal; a blueprint to modernise the EU’s economy and society and reorient them towards a more ‘just and sustainable future’. To achieve this, the European Commission has promised funding to find solutions focused on these principles. […]
Place-based circular economy transition strategy
VELTHA’s direct experiences and collaborations with regional authorities in SCREEN and REPLACE projects, as well as in the Policy Lab, lead to the acknowledgement of the local institutions as key players in the promotion of the transition toward a circular economy: in fact, these have a deep knowledge of their territories and the availability of […]
3+1 policies to get out of the COVID crisis trough Circular Economy
On the 21st of April, the President of the European Council and the President of the EU Commission presented the need to invest massively in the circular economy as part of the EU post-COVID19 recovery strategy. The same priority to CE has been given by several member states, for example, Italy has placed this for […]
Happy Birthday Veltha, a Story of Circular Economy
On 10th of May 2010 Veltha was set up in collaboration with Università della Tuscia of Viterbo-Italy with the scope to join the European research family in the fields of environment, sustainable development and eco-innovation Working on these fields, also through EU funded projects, Veltha realized in the early stage the importance of the CE […]
Announcing the 1st Digital Workshop Open for EU Regional Officers
The Policy Lab will launch in the month of June with an ambitious goal: to provide solutions to the challenges the European Regions face while implementing circular economy programs. The starting point will be to co-create a guideline to evaluate the projects. Circular Economy is an abstract term with many different definitions, which causes different […]