At T6, in order to ensure that trajectory from research to impact, the relevance of the outcomes depends greatly on the pertinence and quality of the technical input integrated during the research process. This is precisely why stakeholder engagement activities are at the core of T6 Ecosystem’s research tasks in CircEUlar.
On September 23, taking advantage of the CircEUlar’s Consortium gathering in Berlin, we organised a stakeholder event in collaboration with LMU and PIK. Throughout the project, stakeholder engagement opportunities have been planned at key milestones to ensure that the research is informed, enriched and validated by practitioners.
T6 Ecosystems together with LMU, designed and delivered the workshop “Towards Net-Zero through a Circular Economy: Pathways to Circularity for the Built Environment”, bringing together stakeholders from policy, industry, research, and civil society to explore circular futures through participatory backcasting.
In the housing session, participants considered modular housing, relocation, and commoning, with the latter selected for its potential to build climate-resilient, community-oriented and integrated neighborhoods. Priority actions needed to realise this future included sharing best practice and developing blue prints to scale proven models, using creative financing and subsidies, and ensuring multi-level governance. In mobility, participants assessed visions of car sharing, car shedding, and multimodal mobility, with multimodality chosen for its emphasis on reduced travel demand, equity, and accessibility. Priority actions highlighted to make this vision a reality included enforcing existing rules, combining hard infrastructure with soft policy measures, leveraging technology for rural and urban contexts alike, and extending concepts such as the 15-minute city to suburban and peripheral areas. Through careful and dynamic facilitation, T6 enabled the translation of these visions into concrete strategies, demonstrating how circular practices in housing and mobility can advance inclusive, resilient, and net-zero pathways.
T6 will do further analysis of the gathered feedback ensuring that it informs the final development of CircEUlar’s pathways.
For further information on this event visit CircEUlar’s news page!
