The Innovation Alliance Circular Design (CiD) project develops innovation in Circular Design education by fostering entrepreneurship in academia, with an accelerator programme for students’ start-ups and continuing education courses to upskill in emerging labour market. This Circular Design Innovation Ecosystem will boost the turn towards a circular construction and design economy.

CiD rethinks design for a circular economy, orients multidisciplinary collaboration towards carbon-neutral cities, and focuses on bio-based innovation for the built environment using bio-materials from other sectors, creating regional circular systems in renewable materials, and installing buildings as bio-machines. Green, digital, resilience and entrepreneurial skills in Circular Design are developed together with relevant actors from HEIs and VET with the broader socio-economic environment (RTO, municipalities, civil society and businesses).

In a multidisciplinary approach the Innovation Alliance Circular Design (CiD) addresses the gap in skills and knowledge, in the sectors of architecture, urban design, product/service design, offering a radically new model on how to link design to circularity and urban transformation. It contributes to the New European Bauhaus’ aim for merging creativity, arts, and technology for the Green Deal.

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Keywords: Education-enterprises partnerships, Curriculum design and development, Entrepreneurship, Circular economy, green skills, digital skills, New European Bauhaus, bio-based innovation, urban transformation, architecture, urban design, product/service design, built environment, construction economy, accelerator, continuous education.