Circular Economy to Enable Europe’s Digital and Green Transition
digital technologies can accelerate the transition towards a circular economy.
DISCOVER THE COMMISSION’s PLAN TO BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN CIRCULARITY & DIGITALISATION AT the plenary SESSION ON “Circular Economy”
JOIN THE DISCUSS WITH high-level speakers from the European Circular Economy Research Alliance, EIT RawMaterials, Enel, Epson, and Huawei.
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the fragility of European businesses and their supply chains. If we want to build back better our economies, we need to make the transition towards a circular economy. We need to move away from linear patterns of consumption where goods are “Produced – Used – Disposed”, and focus instead on “Reduce, Repair, Reuse and Recycle”.
Digital technologies have a huge untapped potential to enable a circular economy and sustainable society. Many of these technologies already exist but are insufficiently integrated into current business practices. It is therefore crucial for technology providers to acknowledge their role in the transition, as well as understand and mitigate the environmental and societal risks related to the implementation of a digital circular economy.
How can we build a bridge between circularity and digitalisation to enable a circular economy and a sustainable society? Join the plenary session “Circular Economy: Connecting the dots between the Green Deal and the Industrial Strategy” on 28 October, 11:30-13:00 CET, to find out.
We will open the session with by Jean-Eric Paquet, Director General for Research and Innovation at the European Commission, who will explain how the Commission will connect the European Green Deal with the Industrial Strategy, and the digital and circular agenda. Holger Berg of the Wuppertal Institute will then present the white paper on Digital Circular Economy of the European Circular Economy Research Alliance (ECERA).
While digitalisation has the potential to accelerate the transition to a circular economy, what is the role of companies? How can the investment policy of the European Commission, and more specifically the European Raw Materials Alliance, contribute to the scale-up a digital circular economy?
In a panel discussion moderated by G-STIC, we will address this question with Henning Ohlsson, Director Sustainability Epson Europe & Managing Director Epson Deutschland GmbH, Ernesto Ciorra, Chief Innovability Officer at Enel, Zhou Hong, Head of the Research Center at Huawei and Bernd Schäfer, CEO of EIT RawMaterials.
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