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Import Export I Kreativquartier

Flash Gordon & 1. EG

A circular economy journey – new insights, new priorities, new bearings

Evening impulse

The 5 day hackathon ‘Circular Hackfest’ has come to an end and 10 innovative solutions to the predefined challenges have been developed. Listen to the best 3 teams pitching their ideas and get inspired by new approaches.

Circular Hackfest pitches

Anmeldung für den kostenfreien RAD-001 Kurs hier: https://bit.ly/45wz9QN

Kennenlerntag I Bike-Repair Kurs

Get inspired by the start-ups and enjoy the coffee bar sponsored by IFAT.

Start-up Exhibition & coffee bar (whole day)

Kennenlerntag I geführte Tour durch den MAKERSPACE

Green deal reloaded: Deep insights into current European policy developments

Keynote and panel with Christian Haub, start-ups and other experts.
What is needed to transform the textile industry? Christian Haub and other experts alongside leading start-ups share their thoughts and solutions. The session opens with a keynote, followed by a panel discussion and start-up pitches.

New high-tech solutions turn the textile industry circular

Circularity Gap Report Munich launch with Circle Economy.

The world is only 7% circular - what does this mean for a city like Munich?

Beauty that moves the world. Kiri Trier on the essential decisions to build a sustainable business

Start-Up Area & Main Stage

Coffee break & live band

Join us on stage as CRITICAL FRIENDS provide a critical summary of the Circular Republic Festival and the circular economy in general. Four distinct voices, embodying 'the ecologist', 'the realist', 'the transformer' and 'the visionary' unite with one vision to deliver a captivating and thought-provoking critique, leaving us inspired for a circular revolution.

Critical outro. Finally CE in action, but are we doing enough?

More than half of waste is generated in the construction sector. Earthlike will introduce current waste sources and construction materials and elaborate how the industry can transform with regards to circularity.

Circularity in construction: How the construction material industry reinvents itself

Learn from and discuss with TUM and IFAT startup alumni Orcan Energy AG how they have scaled an innovative hardware technology for waste heat recovery into a marketable and impactful industry solution.

IFAT Coffee Table Talk: How to scale and sell innovative hardware for the circular economy

Streaming of Main Stage

Was bedeutet eigentlich „Zero Waste“? Und wie will München Zero Waste City werden? Helga Seitz von der Zero Waste Fachstelle (Abfallwirtschaftsbetrieb München) berichtet.

re.public I Grußwort Helga Seitz

Check out the Maker Space: https://maker-space.de/

Kennenlerntag im Makerspace

Circular Futures Festival 2023 I Start ins Festival - Im Dialog mit der Zukunft (online)

Streaming of  Main Stage

Hack'n'Talk by Circular Hackfest

Circular Hackfest (registration only)

Wir sichten alle Erkenntnisse des Tages, ziehen Schlüsse und eruieren, wie wir in den jeweiligen Themen Kräfte bündeln können.

Circular Futures Festival 2023 I Landkarte für kollektives Handeln (online)

Lunch break & networking time

24 konkrete Lösungsansätze zu unseren Schwerpunktthemen: Macher_innen der Kreislaufwirtschaft präsentieren und diskutieren die spannendsten Hebel, an die wir kollektiv ran müssen.

Circular Futures Festival 2023 I Bühne frei für transformative Ideen (online)

Café-Gespräch mit hochrangigen Gästen.

Circular Futures Festival 2023 I Blockbuster: Kreislaufwirtschaft? Auf der Suche nach starken Geschichten (online)

Mit erfahrenen Expert_innen leuchten wir aus, wo wir in den jeweiligen Themen stehen, welche Herausforderungen wir nur kollektiv adressieren können und wo jetzt Momentum entsteht.
	… Circular Design
	… Repair
	… Return
	… Circular Literacy

Circular Futures Festival 2023 I Unter der Lupe - 4 Hebel für die zirkuläre Wende (online)

Circular Hackfest Exhibition

Kreativquartier

re.public - Münchens müllfreier Tag

Fünf Initiativen stellen jeweils fünf Minuten ihre Ideen für ein müllfreieres München vor:

treibgut | WerkBox | Auergarden (Zona Libre) | Klimacafé | Kreislaufschränke München

re.public I Pitchsessions

Opening and Welcome by Bertelsmann

After all of our innovative start-ups from the start-up exhibition presented themselves and their solutions, the jury has selected a winner for each category who will now be announced to the CIRCULAR REPUBLIC FESTIVAL audience. See the innovative circular economy solutions at our start-up awards ceremony.

Final start-up award ceremony

While a Circular Economy is more then reclying, recovering resources from products at the end of their lifecycle is an indispensable part of it. Effective resource recovery and hence closing amterial loops must be part of the value chain to ensure the extraction of valuable and rare resources worn out products.

Start-up Award I Who’s best in category: Resource recovery

Going Circular is a documentary that unlocks the secrets of the circular economy. Dare to imagine a future where humankind not only survives but flourishes by rethinking global paradigms, respecting the limits of our planetary resources, and transforming the modern world. The documentary Going Circular unlocks the secrets to the concept of circularity - an economic system that eliminates waste and saves the planet’s resources. The film explores concrete solutions individuals and communities worldwide can use to move toward a more circular economy.

"Going Circular” Movie Night

Circular Design - How to make your business more circular and resource efficient

By Club of Rome, BMW Foundation, Max Planck Foundation and Sustainable Founders. 
The primary aim of this panel is to deliberate on tangible measures to create incentives for startups and established companies. The emphasis is on fostering a regenerative economy where "sustainable development" and "responsible leadership" are upheld as the standard “by default, not by design practice”. The Club of Rome plans to draft a white paper outlining action-based implementations for the next 2-5 years based on these discussions.

Regenerative capitalism - How to get it done, now!

A single player will not manage to pivot from linear to circular. Therefore, enablers and facilitators are indispensable to connect actors, to collect, store and process data, or to scale solutions and business models. Circular enablers are the key to thriving together in circular ecosystems.

Start-up Award I Who’s best in category: Circularity enablement 1 - technosphere

Collective strategizing with PACE - the Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy.

From waste to resource: Extracting value from the urban mine - collective strategizing

rehab republic lädt zum “Meet ’n‘ Brunch” ins Import Export ein: Tausch‘ dich bei gemütlicher Brunchatmosphäre mit Münchner Zero Waste Akteur*innen aus und lass‘ dich von nachhaltigen Alternativen inspirieren. Für das leibliche Wohl sorgt die Community Kitchen (#geretteteLebensmittelOnly) und für die passende Musik das OSSA Duo mit jazziger Livemusik.

re.public I Meet'n'Brunch

Major announcement from tozero: Closing the battery loop in Europe

In this workshop we invite you to join us for a few rounds with the strategy game “Make it circular” developed by acatech and WWF. Using the theoretical use case of a manufacturer, the game leads you through the process of developing a circular business model and thinking about new partnerships. The target group are representatives of small and medium-sized enterprises of all possible sectors as well as anyone interested in the paradigm shifts of circular business models.

Make it circular! Zirkuläre Geschäftsmodelle im Unternehmen spielerisch kennenlernen (in german)

The true heroes of transformation: SMEs getting ready for a circular economy by using digital tools (in german)

Find out about the real potential and challenges of DPPs.  
In the context of a circular economy, digital product passports are bundling data and functionalities from multiple key technologies: Digital twins, RFID, blockchain, cloud computing, AI and many more. Yet we still have to face crucial questions: For what kind of products does a product passport make sense? For products with high or with low levels of complexity, for fast or slow moving consumer good?  Which technologies should we choose in this regard? Join us for a discussion between experts in the field of battery passport and digital enablers to find answers to these questions.

Digital Product Passports - a trillion dollar opportunity for Europe?

Food waste, unsustainable use of natural resources and mountains of textile junk: The Circular Economy seeks to tackle these issues. Yet to eliminate the concept of waste and to support natural cycles, technlogy driven enablers are indispensable.

Start-up Award I Who’s best in category: Circularity enablement 2 - carbon, textiles & food

Stadtrats-Hearing der Stadt München. 
Die Zukunft zirkulär gestalten – das gilt auch für Baubranche. Der schonende Umgang mit Ressourcen, die Umnutzung von bestehenden Gebäuden, die zirkuläre Verwendung von Baustoffen bedeuten Herausforderungen ebenso wie Chancen.
Auf Einladung der Stadt München werden in dieser Veranstaltung zentrale Fragen gestellt, hochkarätige Speaker_innen zeigen Wege, Trends, Probleme und Potenziale auf und laden zum gemeinsamen Gespräch ein.

Prof. Dr.

Prof. Dr.-Ing.

Zirkuläres Bauen:  Herausforderungen und Potenziale (in german)

After the pandemic and interrupted sea routes have shown the vulnerability of international supply chains, Russia’s war against Ukraine has demonstrated the severe consequences when natural resources are used as a weapon in global confrontations. How can Europe ensure that what happened in the oil and gas crisis will not repeat itself in terms of the raw materials which constitute the backbone of various industries and play a key role in digital transformation and energy transition? How far "derisked" are the key industries and which potentials - and limitations - can circular approaches offer?

Precious materials, global scramble: The circularity case for electronics

Opening with keynote & panel discussion by Circular Futures & CIRCULAR REPUBLIC.
Making Circular Economy the new normal. With this motto, the long-awaited CIRCULAR REPUBLIC FESTIVAL will kick off. With a welcome from our founders, a greeting from Circular Futures from Berlin and a message from our CEO Helmut Schönenberger, we will give our visitors an outlook on how the Circular Economy relates to growth prospects, entrepreneurship and innovative ways of raw materials recovery.

Towards a new normal: Circularity as a way to make our economy future proof

Das Kreativquartier öffnet seine Türen und bietet viele spannende Aktivitäten: 
… Ausstellungen der Initiativen
… Workshops
… Repair Café
… Kleidertausch
… Tanzperformance

Mehr Infos gibt es hier: https://zerowaste-muenchen.de/re-public/

re.public I Open Door, Workshops, Kleidertausch

Guided Tour I MAKERSPACE

Impulses from the battery value chain.
Currently, most batteries are melted down at 1400 degrees Celsius, resulting in the loss of valuable materials like lithium. Only cobalt, nickel, and copper are recovered, albeit at high energy costs. This makes end-of-life batteries more of a liability than an asset. Moreover, the opportunities for battery-reuse are hardly used. Fortunately, a new generation of tech start-ups is working to solve this problem with innovative approaches. Simultaneously, corporations are recognizing the potential of battery circularity and reshaping their supply chains into circular value networks. The battery session will explore how innovation is making circular batteries a reality and the challenges that need to be overcome.

How innovative tech start-ups and big corporates jointly enable car battery circularity

While many of us focus “applied Circular Economy”, i.e. repair-models and industry-collaborations that try to close the loops, the demand side of the equation is typically underrepresented compared to its importance. Janez Potocnik, author of the most influential report "System Change Compass" will explain how to think and act in a systemic way and apply circular economy beyond incremental measures

A new vision for Europe

The efficiency with which we use materials is declining worldwide. Sharing service providers are fighting this trend and increasing material productivity by optimizing the use of products and increase their ofverall lifetime by reparing, reusing and refurbishing. At the seam time you should re-consider what you really want: A CD or music, a lamp or light. Products can be services. Get blown away by the latest innovations in the product-as-as-Service domain.

Start-up Award I Who’s best in category: Product-as-a-service, sharing platforms & product lifetime extention

Startups and entrepreneurs making circularity an essential part of their DNA are the innovative engine of a circular economy. Get inspired by exciting pitches during the next two days. 
We will kick-off with the category circular inputs. The way we design products and the materials we use predefines circularity througout the entire life cycle. Therefore, products need to be made of sustainable and regenerative, degradable or recycled materials. Take a look at what startups have to offer in this regard.

Welcome by IFAT & Start-up Award I Who’s best in category: Circular inputs

Nach dem Festival ist vor der Umsetzung - wie machen wir weiter?

Circular Futures Festival 2023 I Blick nach vorn - 2024: das Jahr der Ressourcenwende (online)

By FOCUS Online Earth. 
Saving money and doing good at the same time? For most German companies, circular economy has gone from green fantasy to actual business case. But even though circular economy has become one of the most powerful climate tools in our arsenal, it's seldom a point of public discussion. How do we make a topic popular that most people don't really know about? A talk about better storytelling.

Circular economy: The most important story you have never heard

Challenge yourself with a full innovation and circular economy readiness scan. 
What does it take to innovate for circularity? Are conventional design and innovation practices sufficient, or must we strive to move from purely human-centered design solutions to systems-oriented and holistic design, considering people as part of ecosystems rather than at their epicenter? Join us for this workshop on product, process and business model innovation in the Circular Economy to understand what it takes to bridge the gap between linear and circular innovation.

Why you can still fail: How to innovate for circularity and build an ecosystem strategy

Both among startups and in corporate innovation, regulatory developments and standardisation constitute central framework conditions for circular materials, products and business models. Together with the Federation of the German Waste, Water and Raw Materials Management Industry BDE and the German Institute for Standardization DIN, we explore the interplay between regulation, standardization, and innovation around circularity, and how innovators can leverage these aspects on the way to a circular economy.

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