About Zirgune
Zirgune is the Euskampus Circular Economy (CE) Community, which brings together key research and innovation actors from the Euskampus institutions (UPV/EHU and Tecnalia) and their closest collaborators in the EC.
In this context, Zirgune’s overall objective is to generate the necessary ecosystem conditions to create a Basque Circular Economy community that strengthens the Basque Country’s current economic system in the transition towards a Circular Economy model that, in turn, has a transforming effect on the whole of Basque society.
The Circular Economy represents a paradigm shift that is based on a socio-economic system whose production and consumption model implies reusing, repairing, renewing and recycling existing materials and products to keep the materials within the economy whenever possible. A circular economy implies that waste is turned into a resource and therefore the real amount of waste will be minimised. Generally speaking, a traditional linear economic model based on a pattern of “take-make-use-throw away” is rejected and replaced with one of: “re-use and recycle”, minimising the impact on the environment.
Facilitate links between research and innovation capabilities in order to enhance and implement collaborative models and co-creation mechanisms.
Foster entrepreneurship and innovative learning, generating challenge-based training capacities
Create a meeting point for public and private Basque stakeholders.
Foster the development of cross-cutting work methodologies in order to develop research and structuring project implementation capabilities.
Promote the positioning of the Basque Country in terms of its internationalisation in relation to the Circular Economy.
