European Circular Construction Alliance - adopting Circular Economy for internationalization and global competitiveness of European SMEs in Building and Construction

2026-07-22

The main objective of the proposed action is to establish European Circular Construction Alliance (ECCA), an EU wide meta-cluster as a long term Europena Strategic Cluster Partnership (ESCP) supporting clusters and business network organizations, their SMEs and other cluster members collaborating for innovation, market-uptake, and marketing of competitive products, services and technologies in the field of circular construction and support SMEs in global competition. Specifics objectives are: • Prepare communication and promotion plan to support development of joint brand and international recognition • Perform in-depth review of the circular construction and its contribution to circular economy and other EU goals, • Identify thematic areas, potential collaborative industries, stakeholders in regard the complementarity, compatibility and interest for collaboration in EU and worldwide • Intensify cluster and business network collaboration across borders and sectoral boundaries and to build a partnership among interested clusters and between members of the clusters • Prepare partnership agreement respecting the characteristics of the “European Strategic Cluster Partnerships” • Officially set-up the ESCP partnership called European Circular Construction Alliance • Analyze the options for legal body representing the ECCA worldwide and if agreed among partners • Develop new value proposition schemes and collaborative, cross-sectoral business models • Develop a joint strategic vision and internationalization plan, including the plan for exploitation of the synergies with the inter-regional activities and other supporting and funding schemes, • Map international opportunities in third countries • Prepare an implementation roadmap with overview of the joint activities foreseen to be implemented.

Slovenia, Poland, Spain

2026-01-15