Recent meetings
| Date | Commissioner / Cabinet | Topic | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 Apr 2025 | Felice Zaccheo Head of Unit | Plenary Feedback round on previously held GGIA Working Group sessions of 9 different thematical groups regarding Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). | — |
| 01 Apr 2025 | Felix Fernandez-Shaw Director | In the context of the EU-LAC Global Gateway Investment Agenda, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA) launches an initiative with a view to develop circular economy value chains in Latin America | — |
| 01 Apr 2025 | Felix Fernandez-Shaw Director | Plenary Feedback round on previously held GGIA Working Group sessions of 9 different thematical groups regarding Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). | — |
| 01 Apr 2025 | Olga Baus Gibert () | In the context of the EU-LAC Global Gateway Investment Agenda, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA) launches an initiative with a view to develop circular economy value chains in Latin America | — |
| 01 Apr 2025 | Felice Zaccheo Head of Unit | Plenary Feedback round on previously held GGIA Working Group sessions of 9 different thematical groups regarding Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). | SRC |
| 01 Apr 2025 | Felix Fernandez-Shaw Director | Plenary Feedback round on previously held GGIA Working Group sessions of 9 different thematical groups regarding Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). | SRC |
| 01 Apr 2025 | Felix Fernandez-Shaw Director | In the context of the EU-LAC Global Gateway Investment Agenda, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA) launches an initiative with a view to develop circular economy value chains in Latin America | SRC |
| 01 Apr 2025 | Olga Baus Gibert () | In the context of the EU-LAC Global Gateway Investment Agenda, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA) launches an initiative with a view to develop circular economy value chains in Latin America | SRC |
Mission & Goals
HCH is a private platform (born out of a public-private initiative) in which the HCH foundation, (local) government authorities, knowledge institutes and companies intensively and internationally collaborate and exchange knowledge with the aim of stimulating entrepreneurship in the field of circular economy. The activities of Holland Circular Hotspot are: • Offer insights in and access to the network of Dutch & EU circular pioneers; • Develop and exchange knowledge on international market opportunities for circular economy; • Create circular opportunities internationally by matching offer and demand; • Support companies and organizations that want to contribute to internationalization of circular economy; • Stimulate cooperation between the private sector, knowledge institutions, governments and other relevant parties; • Provide international visibility of Dutch and EU CE innovations/best practices; • Facilitate access to Dutch and international (financing) instruments and programmes.
EU Legislative Interests
Circular Economy Act Clean Industrial Deal Bio Economy Strategy EU Green Deal EU Circular Economy Action Plan Circular Economy Act Critical Raw Material Act Chips Act Regulation on Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Batteries Regulation
Communication Activities
Holland Circular Hotspot (HCH) has an extensive set of CE best practices from businesses in several market segments that it shares with the world through own website, workshops and trainings, presentations, missions, reports and publications in which Circular Economy is linked to topics like Climate, Cities, Resource Resilience or SDGs. See https://hollandcircularhotspot.nl/themes/ See https://hollandcircularhotspot.nl/publications/ HCH also shares tools, insights and F&F from knowledge institutes as well as hard-learned policy lessons from the Dutch government. See https://hollandcircularhotspot.nl/ce-package-for-embassies/ HCH has built up a huge network of Circular Economy "sister organisations" in Europe and beyond, for knowledge sharing, joint projects, capacity building and advocacy. See https://hollandcircularhotspot.nl/network/. Our signature events are Circular Hotspot Events. Since 2016 we have had 17 editions on 5 continents with every year 4 to 5 new events scheduled HCH is active, often alongside Dutch representative Offices abroad and circular sister organisations", in incoming and outgoing missions, events and webinars for example COP, WCEF, World Expo and EU Stakeholder events of EU Circular Economy Missions and Circular Economy events
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Organisation Members
Holland Circular Hotspot is a private foundation. The Foundation has a 3-person Supervisory board, a 15 person Programme Committee and a network of ~30 HCH Special Envoys. https://hollandcircularhotspot.nl/about-us/ HCH has public and private sponsors. HCH also acquires projects (on a not-for-profit basis), for example, from The Netherlands Enterprise Agency HCH does not have members with a membership structure. HCH works predominantly in the pre-competitive field and creates mutual circular business opportunities. HCH is active in 1 EU i3 projects and a Erasmus+ project.
Additional Information
2024 was a transition year for HCH. Financial Support from the NL government had stopped, international projects funding for Circular Economy was much lower. HCH built up an EU project portfolio.