Circular Economy

BeCircular treated circular economy not as a waste-management topic but as a source of jobs — pairing Greek expertise in materials recycling and reuse with North Macedonian expertise in entrepreneurship training and business mentoring, so that each side’s strength filled a real gap on the other. For young graduates, technicians and artists in the Pelagonia Region, it meant a structured path from idea to business plan, backed by mentors and a dedicated centre rather than left to chance.

For the GAUSS Institute, BeCircular built directly on its earlier work on the SYMBIOSIS project’s composting-facility studies, turning that research experience into an operating entrepreneurship centre of its own — the Virtual Creativity & Entrepreneurship Center — and reinforcing GAUSS’s role as the region’s go-to partner for turning EU-funded research into hands-on business support for the Pelagonia Region.