♻️ 2025 Newsletter

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✅ Looking back and looking forward: developments at a hotspot in turbulent times

Intro from the Director of HCH, Freek van Eijk

✅ Upcoming 2025 CE Hotspot Events

• Upcoming CE Hotspot Event in Slovenia - September 10-13, 2025 in Ljubljana

• The Circular Economy Hotspot is coming to the Asia-Pacific region—and Taiwan takes the lead! October 20-23, Taipeh

• Upcoming Mexico Circular Hotspot 2025 will take place on November 5–6 in Guadalajara, Jalisco!

• The third Circular Hotspot Event in Africa will be held in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia in September 2025.

✅ Circular Accelerator Trainings and Learning Expeditions - Latest News

We’ve launched unique and exciting new training programs to support public and private circular transitions.

• Circular Accelerator Trainings for Businesses

• Circular Accelerator Trainings for Public Sector

• 2025 Learning Expeditions to the Netherlands

✅ EU Projects

• CLOSER: Closing the loop for 4 critical raw materials in Europe in the semiconductor and solarpanel sector

• Digital Kiosks unites 12 partners to drive the sharing economy forward through the deployment of 22 sharing stations in 7 European countries.

• The Biomodel4Regions project aims to establish innovative governance models at the local and regional level

• HCH is a member of The Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC). BIC connects companies of all sizes with researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders to develop innovative value chains using renewable biological resources.

✅ Top News Picks

• EVEN CLOSER, an EU i3 project around critical raw materials and HCH as circular economy coordinator has been approved! Stay tuned!

• EU–Canada Circular Economy Collaboration. LCBA webinar on May 21!

• The Circularity Gap is Widening. The 2025 Global Circularity Gap Report is here — and the world is moving further away from a circular economy. Circularity has dropped from 7.2% to 6.9%, meaning 93.1% of materials entering the global economy are still virgin.

• Check out the new publication to the Dutch Circular Textile Industry. The time for going circular is now. HCH is proud to be listed in this publication.

✅ News from our partners

• Netherlands Materials Observatory (NMO) officially opened (TNO)

• Excess Materials Exchange (EME) has just been selected by the UAE Independent Climate Change Accelerators (UICCA) for its flagship Circular Economy Launchpad. Dxb News Network

• Closer to home, Excess Materials Exchange is gearing up to host the EU Green Week partner webinar “Paving the runway for circular airports” on 11 June. Read more here.

• Duynie Launches Operations in Sweden.

✅ Looking back at past events

• European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform (ECESP). In the run-up to EU Green Week 2025 on June 3-5 ECESP organised a Stakeholder Dialogue on April 10 as a warm up for the EU Green week 2025 and ECESP stakeholder event. Freek van Eijk as Director Holland Circular Hotspot and co-chair European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform. Van Eijk shared insights on how circular economy strategies can strengthen Europe’s resilience and global competitiveness. Read more here.

• HCH Boosts Circular Collaboration in China: Showcasing Dutch Innovation Across Three Cities From Shanghai to Shenzhen, HCH’s mission spotlighted circular solutions in waste, water, and the built environment — forging strong ties and new opportunities for Dutch-Chinese cooperation. Read more here.

• Read our latest circular economy opportunities country report on Turkiye!

✅ Holland Circular Hotspot helps circular entrepreneurs thrive internationally—by overcoming market and policy barriers, connecting key stakeholders, and sharing deep CE knowledge. We:

• Showcase Dutch & EU innovations

• Publish CE insights and country reports

• Connect CE with climate, SDGs, and global resilience

• Facilitate missions, workshops, and training

• Offer custom tools like market scans and the Circular Market Compass

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