CIRC4Life

A circular economy approach for lifecycles of products and services

CIRC4Life is an innovative 3-year multidisciplinary EU funded research project which started in May 2018. It is funded under the HORIZON 2020 programme. It aims to develop and implement a circular economy approach by creating new sustainable products and services through their value and supply chains.

This project will focus on electrical and electronic products (E&E) and farming/agri-food sectors with four large scale demonstration cases:

  • LED lighting
  • Tablets
  • Vegetables
  • Meat
The demonstrators will be held in the UK (Cornwall and Berkshire Counties) and Spain (Regions of Murcia, Basque Country and Valencia).

Three new Circular Economy Business Models (CEBMs) will be developed, including:

  1. Co-creation of Products and Services model will bring end-users closer to the design and manufacturing phases by identifying consumer preferences via Big-data online mining product reviews and evaluating product specifications and prototypes via Living Lab to customise the end-user requirements. Benefited from the co-creation features, sets of sustainable production methods will be implemented and new products/services will be created.
  2. Sustainable Consumption model will develop a method to calculate the eco-points of products based on the outcome of FP7 myEcoCost project, assess product environment footprints (PEF), provide a traceability solution to monitor product’s sustainability along the value chain, and support end-users and stakeholders to actively implement the circular economy via awareness raising and knowledge sharing activities.
  3. Collaborative Recycling/Reuse model will develop a system for stakeholders to interact with each other to facilitate the recycling/reuse of end-of-life products and reduce waste, and implement the eco-credits awarding scheme to encourage people to recycle/reuse.

EECC is a member of the CIRC4Life project consortium in charge of the development and implementation of a of a EPCIS based tracability module, supporting the three new CEBMs and the to be developed ICT platform. Finally, EECC will contribute to the whole project consortium effort towards the best exploitation and dissemination of the project results.





This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 776503.


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