ExpertiseUpdated on 13 August 2025
Circular economy in the manufacturing industry
About
The three-year project CIRIS (Interregional Circularity in Central Scandinavia) aims to enhance research and innovation capacity in Värmland and Innlandet by developing circular industrial value chains. Glava Energy Center is the project owner and leads the initiative together with Swedish partners Karlstad University, Arvika Näringslivscentrum, and the Norwegian project owner Vaager Innovasjon AS.
The project will strengthen research and innovation to optimize and implement circular value chains in industrial sectors such as manufacturing, steel, aluminum, plastics, composites, and energy. Through collaboration between industry, academia, and the public sector, new solutions will be created to enhance the regions' competitiveness and sustainability.
The initiative is built on close cross-border cooperation between Sweden and Norway and is funded by participating organisations, Region Värmland, and co-financed by the EU through Interreg Sweden-Norway.
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Project cooperation
- Process innovation
- Looking for partners
- Proposal in preparation
- Business model innovation
- Circular packaging solutions
- Regional systemic innovation
- 2nd Call 2026 (max 1.5 years)
- Social and behaviour innovation
- Digitalisation and ITC of industrrial processes
Fredrik Östlin
Senior Innovation advisor and circular economy expert at Karlstad university
Karlstad, Sweden
Project cooperation
- Process innovation
- Looking for partners
- Experimentation call
- Proposal in preparation
- Business model innovation
- Circular textile and fashion
- 2nd Call 2026 (max 1.5 years)
- Social and behaviour innovation
- 1st Call December 2025 (max 2,5 years)
- Repair, Reuse, Refurbishment, Remanufacturing
Natalia Moreira
Company partner at Hanze Hogeschool
Groningen, Netherlands
Project cooperation
Circular, Chemical-Free and Climate-Resilient Water Systems for the European Steel Industry
- Product innovation
- Process innovation
- Looking for partners
- Circular water cycles
- Proposal in preparation
- Steel, metals and mining
- Technological innovation
- 1st Call December 2025 (max 2,5 years)
Nicklas Tarantino
Head of Innovation and Facilitator for On demand and additive manufaturing at Sustainable Steel Region
Borlänge, Sweden