A NEW EUROPEAN PROJECT AIMS TO MAKE THE TRANSITION TO THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY SOCIALLY FAIR: WELCOME TO JUST2CE
SCP/RAC is welcoming JUST2CE, a new EU-funded project aiming at understanding the transition to a circular economy and its implications on the environment, economy and society.
Coordinated by the Autonomous University of Barcelona in collaboration with the University of Vigo, this project brings together 14 partners (including the SCP / RAC) from nine European and African countries (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, United Kingdom, South Africa South, Ghana, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe), both academic institutions and research centers and non-governmental organizations.
The project was officially launched on September 9 and 10 in a hybrid event both online and face-to-face, in the halls of the Recinte Modernista Sant Pau where the SCP / RAC has its own premises. More than 50 partners, experts and academics associated with the project were able to officially launch, all together, the future activities of this promising project.
JUST2CE aims at understanding, in critical and thoughtful way, under which conditions a responsible, inclusive and social just transition to a circular economy is possible and desirable, what technical, political and social factors can enable or hamper such transformation and how these aspects can contribute to the development of transitional policy measures. The conviction underpinning the project is that the success of a transition towards a sustainable circular economy does not merely depend on the development of new technologies - artefacts or processes - but also in the reconfiguration of the governance of productive processes into more democratic and participatory mechanisms of designing and managing technology.
In order to better understand how Circular Economy is implemented on the ground and identify enablers and barriers to the implementation of Circular Economy in different contexts, 10 case studies will be developed. One of them will be conducted under the supervision of SCP/RAC and will focus on the Plastic Recycling Value Chain in Morocco.