Communities of Practice
At its most basic, a Community of Practice (CoP) is a group of organisations coming together to share knowledge and experience to better enable circular procurement. Each CoP has a focus on a particular sector or geographical region – at a minimum of a city scale, and will meet a minimum of four times. While each CoP operates independently, they share approaches and learnings through frequent transnational exchange of information events.ProCirc Partner OVAM, through the initiative Circular Flanders, is sharing the experiences from the Flemish Green Deal on Circular Procurement with everyone who is setting up a community of practice on circular procurement in a white paper How to Run a Community of Practice on Circular Procurement. This document guides readers through the methodology of Flanders’ learning trajectory and it provides tips and tricks to stimulate peer to peer learning.
ProCirc has created, or brought a circular procurement lens to, the following Communities of Practice:
If you are interested in joining a CoP that's open to new participants, please send an email to: procirc@rws.nl
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CoP Name |
Region |
Description of CoP Activities |
Open to new participants? |
Lead Partner |
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Circular Workplace |
UK |
Identifying opportunities to implement circular products and services in office based private sector organisations. Language: English |
No |
Business in the Community |
|
Professional Clothing |
UK |
Corporate clothing procurers coming together with the supply chain, through the Professional Clothing Industry Association Worldwide, to create agreed circular procurement principles for corporate clothing tenders. Language: English |
No |
Business in the Community |
|
Climate Action in Supply Chains and Circular Economy Leadership |
UK |
Engaging with large private sector procurers and sustainability leaders, on identifying enablers and levers for change to create circular economy transformation in business, across supply chains, and in the wider economy. Language: English |
No |
Business in the Community |
|
Optimising Bioresources |
UK |
Highlighting a threat to maximising the value of biosolids extracted from wastewater by the prolific use of non-degradable chemicals and products that release microplastics and other microparticles into wastewater underlie this problem. It calls for action by those whose products or activities lead to this contamination. It also asks Government and regulators to take on board a set of principles that have been created. Language: English |
No | Business in the Community |
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Circular Office Edinburgh |
Scotland – Edinburgh |
Identifying opportunities to implement circular products and services in office based organisations in Edinburgh Language: English |
Yes |
Zero Waste Scotland |
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Circular Office Aberdeen |
Scotland – Aberdeen |
Identifying opportunities to implement circular products and services in office based organisations in Aberdeen Language: English |
Yes |
Zero Waste Scotland |
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Circular Office Glasgow |
Scotland – Glasgow |
Identifying opportunities to implement circular products and services in office based organisations in Glasgow Language: English |
Yes |
Zero Waste Scotland |
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Circular Office Tayside |
Scotland - Tayside |
Identifying opportunities to implement circular products and services in office based organisations in Tayside Language: English |
Yes |
Zero Waste Scotland |
|
SICEF - Scottish Infrastructure Circular Economy Forum |
Scotland |
Existing forum with ZWS involved, identifying opportunities to increase circualrity in infrastructure. Language: English |
No |
Zero Waste Scotland |
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PCP - Public Circular Procurement and market inclusion |
Denmark |
Identifying opportunities to create new tender on plastic and centralized plastic recycling centers for municipal plastic fractions, with inclusion of private and public stakeholders. Language: Danish |
No |
CLEAN |
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Circular construction for municipalities |
Sweden |
UT Skåne, a NGO, is running several CoPs on Circular procurement during 2019-2021. The built environment CoP is run together with City of Malmö and ProCirc and has the aim to build knowledge and capacity to procure circular solutions. Language: Swedish |
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City of Malmo |
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Green Deal Circular Bouwen (GDC construction) |
Belgium |
Within this joint engagement building companies, material suppliers, local and regional governments, private builders, researchers and other organisations will cooperate to make circular construction common practice in Flanders. Language: Dutch Link: https://vlaanderen-circulair.be/nl/onze-projecten/detail/green-deal-circulair-bouwen |
No |
Circular Flanders |
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CoP Circular Procurement in Construction |
Belgium |
Within the GDCC, this COP focusses specifically on circular procurement for construction, tackling concrete issues and sharing good practices. Language: Dutch |
No |
Circular Flanders |
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Belgisch leernetwerk duurzame aankoop van ICT (Fair and Circular ICT procurement) |
Belgium |
Promoting circular and fair procurement of ICT with Belgian public procurers by sharing knowledge and good practices. Language: Dutch and French Link: https://fairictflanders.be/activiteit/belgisch-leernetwerk-voor-duurzame-aankoop-van-ict/ |
Yes |
Circular Flanders |
|
Green Deal Anders Verpakt (Circular Packaging) |
Belgium |
This Green Deal focusses on the reduction of the environmental impact of packaging. The main focuss is on suppliers, yet circular procurement will be addressed. Language: Dutch Link: https://ovam.vlaanderen.be/web/green-deal-anders-verpakt |
Yes |
OVAM |
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Green Deal Duurzame Zorg (Circular Healthcare) |
Belgium |
This Green Deal will bring stakeholders in heathcare together to work on sustainability in the sector. One of the 4 key themes is ‘Waste management and circularity of materials’. Circular procurement will be a main focus for this. Language: Dutch Link: https://omgeving.vlaanderen.be/green-deal-duurzame-zorg |
Yes |
OVAM - Circular Flanders |
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Environmentally friendly artificial football turf |
Norway |
Reduce amount of rubber granulates in artificial football turf, through collaboration with academic research group, municipalities, suppliers, football clubs and associations Language: Norwegian |
No |
DFO |
|
Circular furniture regional network |
Norway - Vestland |
Understand circular procurement of furniture in Vestland fylke, including options for used furniture instead of new, specifications for new furniture, and how to maintain and prolong lifetime of existing furniture Language: Norwegian |
No |
DFO |
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Circular furniture national network |
Norway |
A network of 30+ public organizations meet every 6 weeks to share best practices and discuss various issues related to circular procurement of furniture Language: Norwegian |
Yes |
DFO |
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Procurement from municipalities |
Denmark |
Promoting and teaching circular procurement to public procurers and environment employees in municipalities of North Jutland by sharing knowledge and good practices. Language: Danish |
No |
NSBD |