Ready to Accelerate Your Local Circular Transition? Join our CCRI Communities of Practice by 17 October 2025! Across Europe, cities and regions are tackling the same pressing questions: How do we measure circularity in a meaningful way? How do we make water cycles resilient to droughts and floods? How do we ensure that the circular transition benefits people, not just systems? How do we secure the critical raw materials our economies depend on? No city has all the answers alone. Yet by working together, cities can turn common challenges into shared progress—building a more circular, resilient, and inclusive future for all. That’s why the Circular Cities and Regions Initiative (CCRI) is launching four new Communities of Practice (CoPs), small, dedicated groups of frontrunner cities and regions that exchange openly, share what works (and what doesn’t), and co-create practical solutions. Cities can apply to join the following CoPs: Monitoring and indicators for the circular economy: Move beyond theory and explore indicator frameworks that actually work in practice. Circular water management: Exchange strategies for reuse, resource recovery, and nature-based solutions to create resilient water cycles. Social impacts of the circular transition: Explore how to foster equity, inclusion, and social value while driving systemic change. Critical raw materials in cities and regions: Learn how to recover resources embedded in infrastructure and goods to support local and EU targets. What to expect? Together with other cities and regions, you’ll be in the lead. Each CoP meets online regularly, and shapes the agenda, focus, and outcomes to solve the pressing challenges of the circular transitions. Bring your own project as a case, test ideas with your peers, and walk away with insights you can use immediately! Why join? Learn from peers from around Europe Find better solutions faster through collective expertise Expand your international network and visibility Co-create outputs such as case studies and policy briefs to inform policy and scale impact Who can apply? European local and regional authorities, their agencies, and publicly owned companies with hands-on experience in one of the four topics can apply until 17 October 2025! Register now to be part of our CCRI Communities of Practice! For further questions, please contact Luca E. Sander.