Details
- Status
- Ongoing
- Reference
- HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-05
- Publication date
- Deadline date
- Department
- European Commission
Description
Circular economy and biobased sectors (2026-27)
This destination will support the EU Commission priorities ‘Sustaining our quality of life: food security, water and nature’ and ‘A new plan for Europe’s sustainable prosperity and competitiveness’.
The destination supports the EU Green Deal and contributes to Europe’s competitiveness and sustainable prosperity by supporting the development of a more resilient circular economy in line with the EU Competitiveness Compass, the announced EU Clean Industrial Deal and the EU Circular Economy Act.
It aims to increase market demand for secondary materials and establish a single market for waste, whilst enhancing Europe’s efforts to develop a single market for sustainable products. It will also support the implementation of the framework conditions set by the EU Startup and Scaleup Strategy.
Furthermore, the destination aims to facilitate the emergence and uptake of innovative, circular and bio-based materials, products, processes and value chains that play a key role for the defossilisation (reduction of feedstocks of fossil origin), climate neutrality and strategic autonomy of our economy, in line with the new EU bioeconomy strategy as well as with the New European Bauhaus.
In addition, this destination supports several key EU policies including the industrial strategy, the European Chemicals Industry Action Plan and the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation and its working plan.
It also contributes to the EU Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative, the SME strategy, the communication on safe and sustainable by design framework, the sustainable blue economy, the European Ocean Pact, the European Water Resilience Strategy, the European Life Sciences Strategy, the EU biodiversity strategy for 2030, and the Nature Restoration Regulation.