At the B2B Marketplace, 20 solutions with 50+ companies present their contributions to circular value creation.
Many businesses have food surpluses. Many businesses could use them - but the two don't know each other (yet)! On the Circunis B2B marketplace they come together. At the Circulator Forum we try this out ourselves, as an element of the new "Genussbühne" concept.
Digitally supported material take-back is the gateway to the circular economy. Using textiles as an example, we show how the success factors of customer loyalty, closed material loops, and an economically stable long-term business model come together - and how new cooperatives emerge from this.
Used materials from the Locarno Film Festival are turned into an exclusive, limited merchandise collection - with the motto "Sustainable. Designed with Love. Made in Ticino". Experience for yourself how the vibrant atmosphere of the Piazza Grande becomes a daily inspiration and energy source for the circular economy.
Get your circular startup or scale-up investor-ready and accelerate your path to funding with the Circular Investment Readiness Class for Leaders (CIRCL) – the hands-on, high-impact masterclass for ambitious founders and executives in the growth phase.
Swiss-made pioneer spirit, careful craftsmanship, unwavering quality, and expertise in solar furnaces and nanostructures come together to create the world's first circular watch – from the heart of Geneva, for Switzerland and global partners who want to strengthen the circular economy together.
In beer fermentation, wine fermentation, and biogas plants, biogenic CO2 is released as a by-product. Circea's innovative solution captures, purifies, and feeds it back into valuable industrial applications – closing the carbon cycle.
The widely used public waste bin demonstrates how municipal procurement drives circular innovation and saves time, money, and resources – featuring modular attachments, metal parts repairable by local businesses, and design even compatible with UNESCO World Heritage sites.
The Zirkulit Bank is a modular furnishing system for public spaces – making circular concrete tangibly and fascinatingly experienced as a sustainable building material, individually colored with natural regional materials such as gneiss or marl.
The Home Of Beach (HOB) is the new national high-performance center for beach volleyball – featuring integrated use for business, health, gastronomy, and events. Both the construction method and the operating concept are consistently sustainable and circular.
Vögeli AG and the Serendipity agency have developed a sustainable cradle-to-cradle solution for chocolate packaging. Supported by the SPEI economic promotion, the prototype is already being successfully tested in practice by the Lausanne chocolatier Durig.
The "Re:Collection Sofa" combines sustainability and aesthetics in circular Swiss furniture design. Start-up Mymyio manufactures the furniture using up to 94% circular materials, while Christian Fischbacher contributes high-quality, durable upholstery fabrics.
Fromages Spielhofer (Tête de Moine), Tide Ocean (ocean plastic upcycling), and Cemiplast (plastics processing) show how regional circular economy works. Together, they manufacture sustainable cheese accessories from recycled materials.