EUSAIR towards the Green and Circular Economy - Territorial Challenges and Regional Development (Three Fora and AI_NURECC Plus Initiative)

The event will examine how successful circularity-based and innovative local development policies and policy instruments need to create interconnections between and within sectors, institutions and local actors. There will also be specific focuses on the bioeconomy and circular economy in tourism.

Indeed, the bioeconomy aims to drive both sustainable development and circularity through reuse, repair and recycling, reducing the amount and total impact of waste. At the same time circular tourism is the application of circular economy approaches to the tourism sector in order to achieve sustainable tourism.

Moderator:

• Ms. Anuska Stoka, Project Manager, AI-NURECC PLUS (on behalf of the coordinator CPMR)

Welcome speeches:

• Mr. Joze Tomaš, President of the Forum of the Adriatic and Ionian Chambers of Commerce (Forum AIC) - AI-NURECC PLUS Partner

• Mr. Stavros Kalognomos, Executive Secretary of the Balkan and Black Sea Commission (BBSC),Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR) - AI-NURECC PLUS Coordinator

Keynote address:

• Mr Uroš Novak, Expert in Biotechnology, Kemijski Inštitut – Slovenia National Institute of Chemistry

• Ms. Elena Gentilini, Expert in Circular Economy, Progetto Arcadia

“The importance of system thinking approaches to Circular innovation. How to improve circularity impact through networking and analysis at system level” (Italy)

• Mr. Bernard Massabo, Secretary General of the Euromed Cities Network

“Dialogue4LivingAreas project” (Interreg EURO-MED) (France)

• Ms. Milena Rmuš, Coordinator for Environment Protection and Energy Efficiency, Chamber of Economy of Montenegro

“Case study – Roadmap Towards the Circular Economy in Montenegro” (Montenegro)

• Mr. Marco Giuliani, Professor at Marche Polytechnic University

“AMOCEAB - Adrion Master On Circular Economy And Bioeconomy” (Interreg ADRION) (Italy)

• Mr. Marco A. Segovia Bifarini, External expert AI-NURECC PLUS Circular Economy,

Preliminary results of the “Circular Economy - EUSAIR territorial challenges and development” Study (Slovenia)