Project Summary

CAROUSEL project creates a "Marketplace of up-cycled products" by piloting approaches and solutions that increase the level of circular lifestyles in small villages and lead to behavioral changes in citizens, enterprises, and local public authorities. This is the proposed response to a common challenge of the Adrion area where towns and villages are resource-intensive consumption centers that need a transition to circularity as a green solution. By now for Local Authorities, circularity is still a weakly applied concept and circular models only remain a niche of possible solutions. Challenges on this scale need to be addressed transnationally and beyond the borders. The project works in 6 Countries by involving and addressing small villages (like small islands and small internal rural municipalities) aiming to reach the whole ADRION area (and beyond) when the Marketplace is launched and fully operational. CAROUSEL promotes and tests an advanced up-cycling process by creating local circular ecosystems. Strong cooperation and jointly developed strategies bring these solutions to the Adrion region. The novelty stays in the creation of a community involving all the relevant actors of the "circle", acting on the CAROUSEL MarketPlace as providers of the resource (Local authorities), transformers (creative designers and innovative manufacturers, SME), influencers and facilitators (intermediates), buyers/consumers (either private or public).