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Incubation Forum for Circular Economy in European Defence (IF CEED)

EDA manages IF CEED to apply the EU Green Deal’s Circular Economy approach to European defence, by engaging a cooperative community: e.g. EU Ministries of Defence, industry, institutes, research centres, financial institutions, academia, pertinent public bodies at national and international level.

What we do

IF CEED aims at incubating collaborative and transnational circularity projects and/or roadmaps in Defence. The Forum is organised around two main Incubation Clusters (IC): ''Materials and Innovative Designs'' (IC1 MID) and ''Processes and Digitalisation'' (IC2 PD). Under each IC, projects/roadmaps are incubated within the following dedicated thematic communities called "Project Circles'' (PCs):
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Critical Raw Materials

Stake:

  • To generate project ideas contributing to build an EU-endogenous supply chain for CRMs in Defence.
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Additive Manufacturing

Stakes:

  • To assess the full circularity potential of Additive Manufacturing in Defence.
  • To develop military requirement for Additive Manufacturing deployable solutions.
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Materials for Textiles

Stakes:

  • To avoid contamination, presence of impurities and degradation in the textile recycling process in Defence.
  • To pre-evaluate the circularity levels by design, especially for textronic-based textiles.
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Sustainable Ecodesign

Stake:

  • To contribute to make the eco-design framework applicable to the broadest possible range of defence capabilities and make it deliver on circularity.
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Waste Framework Directive, 9.1.i

Stake:

  • To analyse MS transposition of the Waste Framework ‎Directive (WFD), considering SVHC requirement under art. 9(1)(i) of the revised WFD and the new SCIP database.
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EMAS Uptake Strategy

Stake:

  • To explore the possibilities to implement the Eco-Management and Audit scheme (EMAS) in selected military installations.
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Green Procurement

Stake:

  • To support Ministries of Defence (MoDs) to procure goods, services and works with a reduced environmental impact, throughout their life-cycle.
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Data

Stakes:

  • To enable circularity via an appropriate exchange of defence-related data.
  • To balance the need for information sharing and confidentiality.
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Spare Parts Management

Stake:

  • To enable increased reuse of spare parts value in Defence by common pooling and sharing.
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For more information, contact circular.economy@eda.europa.eu

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