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Peer-review

COMMUNITY ACTIVATION FOR IMPLEMENTING CIRCULAR ECONOMY PRINCIPLES IN SLOVENIA

The aim of the expert meeting

The peer-review event is organized to mobilize communities to implement the principles of the circular economy. In order to increase understanding and interest in circular resource use, the expert meeting will discuss an action plan that focuses even more on waste prevention, circular design, product life cycle, and the implementation of a circular economy approach, using the example of the re-use of discarded shipping containers for educational, business, tourism, and other purposes. They will be given new content to understand the principles of the circular economy in everyday life. New Action Plan is one of the main building blocks of the European Green Deal, which sets out an ambitious roadmap for a carbon-neutral, resource-efficient, and circular economy, decoupling economic growth from growth in resource use. This will bring the circular economy into all areas of European planning, and its implementation in Slovenia is therefore essential. In order to establish a partnership between public and private stakeholders in the context of increasing the potential of circular resource use, an informal agreement will be signed at the end of the project to ensure sustainability and to continue cooperation as a community after the end of the project with identified common development challenges for the expansion of the circular economy in Slovenia.

The following lecturers, experts in the field of circular economy, participated in the peer-review:

A) Introductory greeting:

• Darko Ratajc, mayor of the Municipality of Slovenske Konjice
• dr. Franc Trček, Secretary, Office of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia for Development and European Cohesion Policy
• mag. Aleš Brglez, director, JKP Slovenske Konjice

B) Program Lectures:

• dr. Klavdija Rižnar, project manager, ZRS Bistra Ptuj
  Studio of circular economy, project studioKroG

• dr. Marinka Vovk, director, Reuse center
  Presentation of investment of the first Circular Economy Demonstration Centre in Slovenia and an innovative approach to understanding and implementing principles of the circular economy

• Jan Evensen, partner Fonix AS (Norway)
  Ambitious good practices of circular economy in Norway

• mag. Zala Božič Strojin, manager of the transition to a circular economy, City Municipality of Ljubljana
  Circular Economy Transition Strategy of Ljubljana Municipality

• dr. Jure Kotnik, an internationally recognized architect in the field of container infrastructure, Architecture Jure Kotnik
  Green transition and circular economy in the use of used shipping containers

• Rihard Fekonja, Institute PUR
  Issues of centralised space management, with a focus on mobile facilities

• izr. prof. dr. Kaja Pogačar, University of Maribor - Faculty of Civil Engineering, Traffic Engineering and Architecture
  Perceived interest in waste prevention in construction and architecture and integration into circular systems

• Nina Meglič, coordinator SRIP – Cyrcular Economy, ŠGZ
  Climate neutrality as a new challenge

• Barbara Kač Kadunc, Regional Chamber of Commerce of Celje
  How to decouple economic growth from rising resource consumption?

• Mojca Žganec Metelko, director, social enterprise KNOF
  Example of implementing the actions of the Circular Economy Action Plan with local stakeholders

Short presentation of the project Studio of circular economy: FLYER2.48 MB

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