Creative Cities, Circular Futures: CCC brings three years of learning to Kiel

On 29–30 September, partners, creatives and policymakers from across the Baltic Sea Region will come together in Kiel for the final conference of Creative Circular Cities (CCC), an Interreg Baltic Sea Region project exploring how creativity, culture and design can contribute to the circular transition.

After three years of testing new approaches in Aarhus, Gdynia, Kiel, Riga, Tallinn and Turku, the conference will provide an opportunity to share experiences, reflect on what has worked in practice and discuss what is needed to move from city pilots towards lasting circular change.

Across two days, participants will explore how creative businesses, artists and policymakers can contribute to circularity and how culture and design can influence the way cities think about resources, consumption and urban development.

The programme will also look at innovation procurement as a tool for supporting new circular solutions. CCC was the first project in the Interreg Baltic Sea Region programme to implement innovation procurement, using it to develop and test solutions that can make circular services more accessible to city residents. The CCC Policy Roadmap will also be presented at the conference, outlining systemic approaches to creating more supportive policy frameworks for circularity.

A key part of the conference will be hearing directly from creatives involved in CCC activities and from project partners about what they have learned from working across different sectors and cities. Discussions will address practical questions such as what makes circularity work in practice, how creatives can be meaningfully involved, and what creative approaches can contribute to the circular transition.

The conference will conclude with lessons and recommendations from the project partners on how cities and organisations can continue to foster circular change beyond the CCC project. Key project resources will be available at creativecircularcities.com, providing other cities with an opportunity to explore the project’s approaches and learn from examples developed across the Baltic Sea Region.

The Creative Circular Cities project is co-funded by the European Union through the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme.

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