The manufacturing of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE) is rapidly increasing with the digitalisation of economy, society and our daily lives. EEE has severe negative environmental and climate impacts arising from materials use, emission of air pollutants & greenhouse gases,chemicals use and waste. Additionally, planned obsolescence is often used in EEE. The increasingconsumption and production of EEE makes its complex and challenging waste stream one of the fasted growing ones.

12 partners from business support, academia, policy-making and regional development from strongmanufacturing regions in central Europe work together in CIRCOTRONIC with the objective to:

- foster sustainable growth by transforming EEE manufacturing in Central Europe towards circularand resource-efficient processes, value chains, products and services, and minimising the negative impacts of EEE

- to design a policy framework and implement circular economy policy measures supporting circular EEE manufacturing and the management of E-waste as a resource.

Ten CIRCOTRONIC partners will collaborate as transnational network of regional circular labs, takingup solutions that were jointly developed and tested for improved circularity in EEE manufacturing SMEs covering the themes 1) design, 2) materials & recovery, and 3) circular business models & value chains. We will capitalise knowhow, tools, approaches and instruments from existing projectsand initiatives and adapt and test them in the EEE manufacturing sector.CIRCOTRONIC will prepare a transnational action plan, in which we design policy measures to implement the CEAP 2020 in Central Europe in the field of EEE manufacturing and the E-wastemanagement, and support and monitor its up-take in the involved partner regions. A circular electrical & electronics industry is just evolving. CIRCOTRONIC engages with stakeholders, key actors and localcommunities to make circular change happen in a sector of key importance for Central Europe.