ECIV partnership and Région Normandie aim to set up an external pool of experts to support the review process of the proposals received from ECIV project. Received project proposals deal with Interregional Circular Innovation Projects, with a technology readiness level of 6-8 or its equivalent if their object is not technological.

At present, we are looking for experts in circular economy innovation in the following sectors (non-exhaustive list):

• Food and Agro-Food Systems: minimize food waste, valorise by-product, develop sustainable food products.

• Textiles and Fashion: reduce waste and pollution, innovation in sustainable fibers, encourage repair, resale, rental, and recycling.

• Circular and sustainable bioeconomy: use renewable biological resources, develop bio-based products.

• Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE): innovate in e-waste management (reuse, refurbishment, repair, recycling, and remanufacturing), promote modular and repairable design.

• Circular and sustainable packaging: reduce the use of packaging, industrialize sustainable recyclable, compostable, biobased or reusable packaging, increase the use of secondary raw materials, reduce waste, recover materials.

• Energy Systems: reuse components (e.g., batteries, solar panels, turbines) and materials, enhance the energy efficiency of industrial processes and buildings, support the development of renewable energy linked to resource loops.

• Steel, Metals, and Mining: valorise industrial by-products, promote urban mining recovering metals, increase the use of secondary raw materials in manufacturing.

• Water and Wastewater management: reduce freshwater use in industry, implement water recirculation/recharge and closed-loop systems, wastewater treatment and nutrient recovery.

• Construction and Built Environment: use circular or sustainably produced bio-based and recycled materials, implement design-for-disassembly and material recovery strategies in architecture and urban planning, reduce construction and demolition waste through reuse, modular building systems, and material passports.

We are seeking expertise in (non-exhaustive list):

• Circular and sustainable new Materials, including new plastic solutions, green steel, critical raw materials, chemistry and biobased materials, new textile solutions, construction and demolition waste.

• New Industrial Processes, including strategies and processes suppering the 9 R’s of circularity, like Ecodesign and lifestyle thinking, Product R’s, Industrial Symbioses, maximum valorisation of waste and by-products and renewable energy.

• New Business Models, including circular supply models, extended product lifecycle models, sharing models and product service models

Previous experience in the evaluation of innovation projects calls on circular economy will be valued. Experts should demonstrate experience and possess a proven track record in their expertise.

The selection of the experts to support Normandie and ECIV partners in the evaluation of the open calls will be taken at a later stage, since it depends on the number of received proposals, the affiliation and the expertise of the evaluators and the balance between various criteria (e.g. gender, background, affiliation type, expertise etc.).