While policymakers are yet to actively link digitalisation with wider sustainability efforts when developing policies and nancing projects, there is a growing need to align the circular and digitalagendas. The Green Deal recognises that circular economy and strong involvement from industry is central to making the EU’s economy sustainable.

CEI BOOST project will focus at enhancing policies conditions in the partner countries for boosting the application of emerging digital innovations to support the growth of circular economy at regional, local or national level, gathering expertise from different regions, different levels’ policymakers and leading innovation ecosystems’ actors. The project will investigate and test approaches and tools to assess, strengthen and support both regional digital and circular innovation ecosystems in non-metropolitan, rural and emerging regions in Europe.

Project website: https://www.interregeurope.eu/cei-boost