Beyondly and CircularPSP – circular economy project
In April 2024, Beyondly started working with digital product innovation partner Supercharge on Phase 1 of a research & development (R&D) project for the EU horizon, funded CircularPSP project.
This project brings together leading circular economy cities, representing 45 million citizens, investing €5.64 million in R&D to tackle the common challenge of accelerating the transition towards a circular economy with a focus on cities, their employees and business.
The open tender process selected the best five solutions form fifteen applicants and our multidisciplinary of Beyondly and Supercharge are now focused on solution design, creation and delivering the results we set out in the tender for our CircularCities Platform (CCP).
Over the next four months we will communicate our solution and collaborate with the eight cities as we compete for a place in Phase II - prototype development.
Beyondly and Supercharge will be focusing on the following areas:
Providing Information to users: accelerating AI and circular economy value to simplify and enable user journeys navigating the circular economy
Creating circular economy solutions: enabling cities to replicate, procure and design impactful projects
Creating a circular economy community: developing a state-of-the-art Public Service Platform (PSP) for collaboration as individuals, teams, cities and with business and wider stakeholders
Supporting change and upskilling: a user led adaptive change framework, self-assessment tool, upskilling, and knowledge and wisdom creation
Coupled with our customer service excellence and B Corp certification, Beyondly have a culture of developing innovative user led environmental, compliance and sustainability services
Our core delivery team of circular economy experts, Chris Smith, Lead Consultant – Resource Efficiency & Circularity and Charlotte Davies, Senior Consultant – Resource Efficiency & Circularity, are supported by Liz Wood, Sustainability Manager & Principal Consultant, who brings a track record of developing collaborative innovative digital solutions in the sustainability domain.
Chris Smith, commented on the great potential of the project;
‘’Supporting cities to be more circular has great potential to tackle climate change given over 80% of the UK and over 70% of EU population live in urban areas. Cities concentrate skills, resource and have the economies of scale to deliver change, yet only 10% of cities have advanced on their transition to a circular economy. The project will create a digital, AI powered solution to enable cities and businesses to collaborate, build expertise and deliver circular economy initiatives more often, and with greater impact’’
We look forward to keep you up to speed as the project develops.