On behalf of the EU partnership on Circular Economy, the city of The Hague invites you for the workshop: “Roadmap to a Circular Resource Efficient City”. This (interactive) workshop will take place on October 9th as side event of the European Week of Regions and Cities (7-10 October 19) in Brussels.

This workshop is part of the process for the development of a “Roadmap for a Circular Urban Resource Management plan” for cities. The roadmap will consist of 3 pillars, a) inventory of resource flows, b) brokerage activities with tools to transform the linear resource flows into circular flows and c) monitoring, to be able to keep track of the result of the implementation.

The aim of this workshop is to elaborate on the development process and provide substantiated arguments for cities in order to be able to design a circular resource management plan that is tailored to the specific needs of every individual city.

Workshop

First of all, a general introduction is given about the Urban Agenda, presented by Jan Harko Post. This workshop looks at the design of a circular resource management plan according to the following structure:

Drivers

The first perspective looks at the drivers for cities that want to improve their resource efficiency and contribute to the circular economy; Cities with this motivation will tell us why they want to contribute to the development of the circular economy and why they want to take action.

Experience

The second perspective examines the benefits that cities experience when they have a circular policy plan or resource efficiency plan in place. A city with experience in this area will elaborate on the problems they encountered, the pitfalls, what they learned and the opportunities that opened up after completing their plans.

Roadmap

This is followed up by a short presentation which goes into detail on framework that has been developed to design a circular resource efficiency plan by the project leader, Gerko Brouwer. The framework consists of three parts: 1) well founded process steps to guide you through the development process combined with; 2) a substantive assessment framework to make well-funded decisions to tailor the plan for your city and 3) the associated theoretical (scientific) background information to, if needed be able to deepen the knowledge on the involved subjects.

12:30 Welcome with Coffee/Tea/Registration of participants

13:00 Setting the context: Introduction of the EU partnership on CE and the 12 actions.

Presentation by Jan Harko Post (city of The Hague) about the EU partnership on CE.

13.20 Presentation: drivers for cities wanting to contribute to the Circular Economy: (problems, changes, possibilities, challenges etc)

TBA

13.40 Presentation on experience of cities with a city program on Circular Economy: (inventory, targets, projects, barriers, results, etc)

TBA

14.00 Break

14.15 Presentation on process steps and considerations of the roadmap on Circular Urban Resource Management

Presentation by Gerko Brouwer, project leader for the development of the roadmap

14.45 Discussion

15.30 End of the meeting (with network possibility)

Workshop - Roadmap to a Resource Efficient City