Funded projects should focus on the development and/or deployment of technologies in the circular economy area, including breakthrough and disruptive innovations, through cooperation between actors from the 7 (seven) participating regions: Innlandet (Norway), Madrid (Spain), Kyiv-Oblast (Ukraine), Haut-de-France (France), Extremadura (Spain), Vienna (Austria) and Greece.

Funded projects should propose activities to establish new knowledge or to explore the feasibility of a new or improved technology, product, process, system, service or solution. This may include applied research, technology development and integration, testing, prototyping, demonstration and validation of a small-scale prototype in a laboratory or simulated environment and market replication.