Up2Circ

**Let’s make Europe more circular! Up2Circ supports European SMEs on their way towards circular economy** **Learn more about Up2Circ:** You are a small or medium-sized Enterprise (SME) and want to move your business towards circular economy? Find more information on how we can support you by following the respective button below! Or you are an EU SME Advisor, who wants to be involved in creating a stronger circular economy support ecosystem? Click on the other button below and find information on how to get involved and share your knowledge! Up2Circ project receives funding by the European Union under EU Grant Agreement 101091367. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HADEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. We are 7 partners from Southern, Eastern and Northern Europe, passionate about supporting Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). For more than 15 years all partners are members in Enterprise Europe Network. We help SMEs to innovate and increase their growth. Doing that, we have a track record of successful collaboration with enterprises from all our regions of origin. With Up2Circ we bring all our expertise on advanced technologies, social innovation and international business collaboration to the table and expand our services explicitly to the field of circular economy. **Up2Circ – Boosting the uptake of circular business model, product and process innovation**, is an international project, funded by the European Commission’s Horizon Europe programme – Horizon 2.4 – Digital, Industry and Space. Our project **aims to accelerate and scale up the transition of European small and medium sized companies towards a circular economy.** Up2Circ will develop and implement attractive and efficient measures tailored to the specific needs of each company. The Up2Circ client’s journey to circularity starts with the ‘Wake-Up2Circ’ phase, showing what opportunities circular innovation can offer to SMEs. Together with their Up2Circ regional advisor, the SME develops a detailed action plan with next steps to be taken towards becoming more circular. The SME can then participate in the Up2Circ Academy, which is a set of training modules, each of which shows a detailed pathway to implementing circular solutions for their business and includes knowledge on implementing advanced technologies and social innovation as enablers of circularity. SMEs that want to go further – to change their business models to circularity or to implement specific transition measures towards circular products, processes and services – can apply for EU-funding of up to €50,000. We will present the most inspiring stories of implemented projects in the catalogue of Up2Circ success stories.