Global Innovation Summit 2025

1–2 Apr 2025 | HANNOVER MESSE, Germany

Eliza Panagiotidou

Circular Economy Strategist | Sustainable Ecosystems Builder | Industrial Ecologist | Founder

Urban Camel

Athens, Greece

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Urban Camel

Urban Camel

Start-ups and scale-ups

Urban Camel is a member of EIT Climate-KIC, Europe's leading climate innovation agency and community, Catalyst Now, a global movement to drive sustainable change, and a winner of the Silver Award for Green StartUp at the Green Brand Awards 2023. It's vision is to enable the co-creation of sustainable business ecosystems, wherein eco-conscious and purpose-driven organizations are committed to create collective and long-lasting value. We are on a mission to inspire and speed up the adoption of sustainable solutions and enhance the circular performance of businesses and organisations. Our activities include: research and innovation to help compnies identify and implement strategies and solutions that create sustainable value (regardless of industry). training for upskilling and reskilling in the circular economy assessment and improvement of circularity performance
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About me

I am an industrial ecologist with a business background, working as a circular economy strategist.

I am the founder and managing director of Urban Camel, a boutique agency that specializes in strategic research and innovation for sustainable development and the circular economy. Urban Camel offers a suite of professional services, including research, training, and consultancy, to assist organizations in developing their capacity and enhancing their sustainability and circularity readiness. In addition, I collaborate with LDK Consultants, a prominent consulting and engineering firm, where I oversee sustainable solutions.

I am a registered advisor for small businesses at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and an independent proposal evaluator for EIT Manufacturing and the European Commission. I am also a member of the Sustainability and ESG Committee of the Hellenic-French Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In 2024, I was honored with the Ecosystem Hero of the Year title at the South Europe Startup Awards. Urban Camel received the Green StartUp award at the 2023 Green Brand Awards, as well as the Sustainability Research & Innovation Agency award at the 2025 Corporate LiveWire Innovation & Excellence Awards.

I am open to both B2B collaborations and EU Projects around circular innovation, sustainable growth, green transition cross-sector including upskilling and capacity building. Feel free to reach out to explore potential synergies. I am particularly interested in building a consortium for the project calls:

-> HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-39: Towards human-centric, sustainable and resilient energy-intensive industries".

->HORIZON-CL5-2025-04-D5-07: Accelerating the circular transformation of the EU automotive industry.

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