circle17 supports the design of practical business solutions to the most urgent sustainability challenges, by facilitating a platform for startup collaboration with corporates and non-profit organisations.  
 

Through a series of two engaging workshops, you receive guidance on defining your sustainability challenge. We will tap together with external experts in the fields of circular innovation and will shed light on how partnerships with startups could look like.

Workshop I | 08.03.2022  I 14:00 - 17:00 | online

SDGs AS A COMPASS FOR CHANGE
Input by engageability | Circular Economy Forum Austria 

• Connect - SDGs with Circular Economy

• Identify - SDGs along along the Value Chain

• Target - SDGs based on the impact

Workshop II | 09.03.2022  I 14:00 - 17:00 | online

CIRCULAR ECONOMY AS THE ROAD TO RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY

Input by Circular Co-Creation | DORDA Rechtsanwälte | Mind-X

• Legal Trends - compliance around circular economy

• Qualification - identify competences and requirements for circular economy 

• Challenge frame - the Challenge for the target SDGs with a Circular Challenge

The workshop is part of the circle17-programme. Only "challenge leads" can partake in the workshops. For more info about the program go to www.circle17.at or contact Viktoria Pichler.

About the circle17 program: 

circle17 is an initiative, which unites the corporate- and startup ecosystem to share and rapidly develop ideas to urgent sustainability challenges. By offering a 8-month program to re-think, re-design and re-connect, circle17 aims to nudge the development multi-stakeholder collaborations, contributing with their business models to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

The circle17 program consists of three Milestones: 

1. Discovery Phase: Circular Innovation Workshops 8. & 9. March 2022

In consecutive Workshops the participating corporates will define their sustainability challenge that will be tackled by social innovators at the Impacthon.

2. Ideation: Impacthon 20. - 22. May 2021

A 3-day event where social innovators dive into the SDGs to hack the given sustainability challenges and co-create with diverse stakeholder groups.

3. Matchmaking September 2022 (tbd)

After successful workshops and the Impacthon the journey continues: One day of building bridges between our social innovations, startups and corporates. There they get empowered to contribute to the achievement of the SDGs