{"id":20198,"date":"2026-04-14T09:44:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/?p=20198"},"modified":"2026-04-14T09:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:45:26","slug":"european-circular-innovation-valley-eciv-for-building-interregional-ecosystems-for-circular-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/european-circular-innovation-valley-eciv-for-building-interregional-ecosystems-for-circular-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"European Circular Innovation Valley (ECIV) for Building Interregional Ecosystems for Circular Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<strong> European Circular Innovation Valley <\/strong>(<strong>\u201cECIV\u201d<\/strong>) project is one of the most ambitious European initiatives to support<strong> interregional cooperation in circular innovation<\/strong>. Funded by <strong>Horizon Europe<\/strong>, it connects <strong>12 European regions <\/strong>with a common goal: to accelerate the development, testing and scaling of circular solutions that strengthen <strong>Europe\u2019s environmental and industrial resilience<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>ECIV has a dual role &#8211; it is a<strong> five-year project (2024-2029) <\/strong>and at the same time the basis for the emergence of a <strong>permanent \u201cinterregional valley\u201d <\/strong>ecosystem. The project phase builds structures, partnerships and long-term cooperation mechanisms so that after the end of funding a <strong>self-sustaining ecosystem<\/strong> for the circular economy across regions is created.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative uses a<strong> mission-oriented approach<\/strong> combining a \u201ctop-down\u201d strategy and \u201cbottom-up\u201d stakeholder engagement. The result is six shared sub-missions that set a common framework: <strong>waste reduction, circular packaging, regenerative agrifood, biobased construction, natural &amp; recycled fibers and circular metals<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>ECIV is already operational: it supports thematic clusters and the linking of actors through the <strong>Matchmaking Platform<\/strong> (over <strong>400 organisations<\/strong>). A key milestone was the first open call (December 2025) with an allocation of<strong> \u20ac9.13 million<\/strong> for projects i<strong>n TRL 6-8<\/strong>, which attracted<strong> 21 interregional proposals<\/strong> and over <strong>115 applicants<\/strong>. For more information, use this <a href=\"https:\/\/eismea.ec.europa.eu\/news\/building-europes-circular-future-progress-european-circular-innovation-valley-eciv-2026-04-03_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Circular Innovation Valley (\u201cECIV\u201d) project is one of the most ambitious European initiatives to support interregional cooperation in circular innovation. Funded &#8230; <a class=\"cz_readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/european-circular-innovation-valley-eciv-for-building-interregional-ecosystems-for-circular-economy\/\"><i class=\"fa fa-angle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><span>\u010c\u00edst v\u00edce<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","iawp_total_views":0},"categories":[577],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20199,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20198\/revisions\/20199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}