CircularPSP has established a Follower Network with cities like Amsterdam, Göteborg and Torino, and city collectives like ICLEI and Energy Cities.
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On the 7th of December, the first Follower event took place, jointly organised by empirica and ICLEI. Several members of CircularPSP’s Follower Network were present, but also other stakeholders in the field of circularity participated.
ICLEI presented the Circular City Declaration, in which the declaration goals and barriers for cities to the CE transition were discussed.
These barriers clearly overlapped with the common challenges defined by the CircularPSP consortium, which is based on the insights from eight procurers. In addition to these challenges, CircularPSP discussed the envisaged city-wide CE solution, including the main needs and requirements to overcome the barriers. Other insights shared include the standard contractual clauses for the procurement of AI by public organisations.
Finally, CircularPSP invited all the attendees to the open CE Taxonomy Working Group, in which Suppliers and Cities are encouraged to tackle the following issues together:
– Define core terminology (i.e. Taxonomy)
– Identify a set of core data sources
– Document a core set of data standards and protocols