Projects

Regenerative Carbon Farming

Our project INNO4CFIs is promoting innovation for carbon farming with a positive impact on the environment, climate and local communities in 13 European regions. INNO4CFIs – “Nature-Based Business Model and Emerging Innovations to enhance  Carbon Farming Initiatives (CFIs) while preserving Biodiversity, Water  Security and Soil Health”,co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund I3 instrument, led by Fondazione E. Amaldi, consists of 14 partners representing the innovation ecosystem of 8 European countries (IT, GR, SP, BE, NL, IE, AT, DE).

We at Circonnact – Regenerative Circularity are leading the work package Dissemination and Sustainability promoting the communication of the project and fostering fruitful collaborations to support the market uptake beyond project-time.

The aim of INNO4CFIs is to promote carbon farming and nature-based business models, technology and innovation to increase CO2 uptake while nurturing vital environmental benefits like freshwater production, soil restoration, and biodiversity enhancement. With a focus on carbon farming initiatives and reforestation, the objective is to develop a Carbon Technology Platform, redefine carbon farming and create a highly replicable and scalable business model in the Carbon Farming sector. 

Demonstrated in 4 living labs, INNO4CFIs is integrating highly innovative technologies including desalination-, mycelium-, satellite and space technologies. The project is also funding highly innovative carbon farming technologies with minimum TRL6 promoted by SMEs located in i3-eligible countries and related innovation ecosystems, through a cascade funding system. Thus improving European regional areas that have been selected to be at the forefront of European market innovation and enriching the competitive advantage of the targeted territories. 

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Since March 2023, Vanessa Vivian Wabitsch from Circonnact has had the honor of supporting the implementation of the Destination regeneration plan by Whidbey and Camano Islands Tourism, Washington State, USA as Regenerative Tourism Lead with the Transformational Travel Council. 

In 2022, Whidbey and Camano Island Tourism started their journey to develop future-fit islands by regenerative development by tourism. They joined the Destination Regeneration program by the Transformational Travel Council as early adopters and developed the destination regeneration plan “EMBRACE – A Vision and Approach to our Desired Future for Whidbey and Camano Islands”. 

What does it take to bring the destination regeneration plan to life?

• People who are motivated to implement the vision and plan
• Very good collaboration and relationships among the team and with community members and other stakeholders
• Strategy implementation plan and tools to enable self-organized co-work, coherent and effective processes
• Capacity building, training, and co-design with the local community
• Creativity, presence, aligned action.

We work on all of these aspects and are excited to support the pioneers to take the bold step and create the desired future for their place with the regenerative approach.

Interested in learning more and how you can develop your desired future by regenerative tourism, innovation, and leadership? Contact Vanessa Vivian Wabitsch via vanessa (at) circonnact.world .

Micro and small companies represent the majority of businesses in most of the countries, and drivers of innovation and development of the economy. So it is important for them to understand and integrate circular economy solutions into their business. But how to address this in the best way, given that they often lack time to look in depth into the opportunities? If employees in the Business Centers and Agencies supporting these small companies understand what Circular Economy means, that would ensure that they integrate this thinking into their approach when consulting the small enterprises.

This is a project which Onda Circular, a Latin American organization, was leading with Sercotec in Chile from April to August 2021. They offer a platform for capacity building of the employees of >60 business centers nationwide and facilitated workshops to understand circular behavior with more than 400 employees attending. Andreas Ellenberger was supporting this project, facilitating workshops where the Business Centers were developing an initial life cycle analysis and circular business model canvas for one of their local companies to understand the opportunities if they apply circular solutions.

Equipped with that knowledge they worked with the entrepreneurs, how integrating the circular economy approaches, communicating their solution and finding additional partners for collaboration can contribute to the development of the small companies. In videos they presented the cases and have their own guideline to train, consult and inspire further entrepreneurs in their community. And as Chile has developed a national Circular Economy roadmap, they can contribute to a broader implementation.

Do you want to have impact in companies in your region? Contact Andreas! We develop programs locally to support the change to a circular society. Do you need an inspirational workshop, want to develop a program on capacity building or develop local circular solutions? Our services include different ways forward.