EIB's Circular City Centre (C3) initiative continues: support to thrive circular transition in cities

EIB's Circular City Centre (C3) initiative continues: support to thrive the circular transition in cities

The Circular City Centre (C3), a support scheme of the European Investment Bank (EIB), launches a new phase of support to cities offering advice on their circular economy agenda and investment projects. Cities can benefit from guidance documents, resources, circular city advisory and capacity building and project advisory services. 

Recognising the role of cities as cradles and catalysts of circular action and change, C3 is a competence and resource centre aimed at supporting EU cities in their transition to a circular economy. Its main focus is to help cities advance their circular economy agenda and prepare impactful circular projects for financing. C3 is led by the European Investment Bank, under financing from the European Commission and with external support from a consortium comprising Circle Economy, Arup, ICLEI Europe, and ECORYS.

C3 supports cities in four ways:

  1. Provision of guidance documents on relevant circular topics and other tools for awareness raising and mobilisation;
  2. Facilitation of circular knowledge sharing and dissemination through webinars, roundtable discussions and other activities;
  3. Circular City Advisory (CCA) programmes supporting cities at various stages of their circular transition. The CCA comprises 3 standardised programmes, each consisting of a series of 4 workshops with active exchanges between the C3 team and the city representatives. A description of the C3 CCA programme can be found here.
  4. Circular Project Advisory (CPA). This service offers tailored advisory support aimed at developing sizeable and mature projects towards investment readiness and implementation. A description of the C3 CPA programme can be found here.

All C3 services are provided free of charge to municipalities and other public sector promoters acting on their behalf. More information about C3 can be found on the C3 web page or in this 2-page C3 in-brief document attached.

Cities interested in the C3 advisory support, can express their interest by using the form for the service that best aligns with your level of progress and needs, here for the CCA and here for the CPA, and send it to C3@eib.org. 

The EIB is an associated partner of the Circular Cities and Regions Initiative, one of ERRIN projects. Circular econmy is one of the important topics, which is followed up upon by ERRIN's Bioeconomy Working Group.