The Innovation Alliance Circular Design (CiD) Erasmus + project develops innovation in Circular Design education by fostering entrepreneurship in academia, with an accelerator programme for students' start-ups and continuing education courses to upskill in emerging labour market. This Circular Design Innovation Ecosystem will boost the turn towards a circular construction and design economy.

CiD rethinks design for a circular economy, orients multidisciplinary collaboration towards carbon-neutral cities, and focuses on bio-based innovation for the built environment using bio-materials from other sectors, creating regional circular systems in renewable materials, and installing buildings as bio-machines. Green, digital, resilience and entrepreneurial skills in Circular Design are developed together with relevant actors from HEIs and VET with the broader socio-economic environment (RTO, municipalities, civil society and businesses).

Start date: September 2023 - End date: September 2026

Partners

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universitaet Hannover 

• Institut D'arquitectura Avancada De Catalunya 

• Universita Degli Studi Di Genova 

• E.M. Associazione A.R.C.E.S. 

• Fundacio Privada Ersilia