CIRRUS: Accelerating Systemic Urban Transformations

Metabolic is creating an AI-powered platform to help cities develop circular economy action plans.

Empowering cities to create resilient, regenerative urban landscapes.

Cities play a vital role in fostering sustainable development but face significant barriers: fragmented knowledge, a lack of scalable solutions, and unclear circular economy definitions.

These challenges make it difficult for cities to develop actionable plans for transitioning to a circular economy, delaying sustainable transformation.

We are developing CIRRUS, a platform to guide public officials in assessing their city’s circular economy baseline and creating a comprehensive transition roadmap tailored to its unique context and priorities.

Your city, your insights.

We’re looking for cities to help us build this platform tailored to their needs.

Are you a policy officer, city representative, or passionate about advancing circular city initiatives?

Connect with us and help shape the next-generation AI platform for circular cities!

How will we help cities?

Leveraging established circular economy frameworks and continuously learning from user data, CIRRUS aspires to foster a growing repository of circular economy knowledge for all cities in Europe.

Streamlining circular economy adoption

Supporting public officers from a current state assessment to formulating tailored implementation strategies, accounting for city-specific factors like climate, population, geographical constraints, and political priorities.

Enhancing collective learning with AI

Leveraging AI-enabled co-learning, our platform captures existing curated data from diverse datasets (e.g. EU policy documents, public and consortium-provided databases), refining advice and fostering knowledge exchange to solve challenges collaboratively.

Promoting a systemic view on circularity

Rooted in a systemic perspective, our approach extends beyond material flows to consider the environmental and social impacts associated with the lifecycle of materials, avoiding burden-shifting or rebound effects.

Empowering city officials

Elevating circular economy awareness and capabilities through targeted upskilling and engagement strategies, our platform adapts to users’ knowledge levels, supporting their transition from understanding to action.

Activating networks for circular collaboration

Leveraging the accumulated learnings to involve and engage relevant stakeholders and establish public-private relationships.

Your city, your insights.

We’re looking for cities to help us build this platform tailored to their needs.

Are you a policy officer, city representative, or passionate about advancing circular city initiatives?

Connect with us and help shape the next-generation AI platform for circular cities!

CircularPSP project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement n° 101092208.