HOW TO assess projects' circularity
Once cross regional projects have been identified, and an agreement on how to finance them has been achieved, there is the need of a common set of assessment criteria to be adopted by the Regions
A specific action of the SCREEN project deals with a common agreement on a specific set of "evaluation criteria for circular economy projects".
Even if each regional authority managing structural funds already has its own assessment criteria for the evaluation and selection of projects, specific criteria for circular economy projects are still missing.
The criteria to be defined are therefore the additional ones to be used for the sole purpose of evaluating the "circularity" of one project respect to another one and help the evaluators to make a clear and transparent ranking list.
The Table of assessment criteria for circular economy projects in the following figure has been prepared on a "bottom-up" approach basis, including several discussions between the 17 SCREEN regions and a wide stakeholders' consultation.
It has been conceived as an user-friendly tool, able to be actually used by both applicants and evaluators, to be used in addition to the usual evaluation criteria. Version 3.0 has been validated by more than 160 European Stakeholders through an online questionnaire
The current version 4.0 has now instructions for both applicants and assessors, plus a practical example of its application allowing to compare two different circular economy projects.
Download Version 4.0 with instructions and examples
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The bottom-up approach
September 2017. First draft with 5 indicators only, developed on the basis of the first project activitiesOctober 2017. Discussion within the second Policy Lab; one indicator was rejected; the participant Regions were asked to test the remaining four indicators in real cases of project already financed.
November 2017-January 2018. Results o the tests and feedback by the SCREEN Regions.
February 2018. Draft table of assessment criteria;it is to be noted that the European Commission issued on 16th of January 2018 a Communication "on a monitoring framework for the circular economy", containing 10 indicators selected to capture the main elements of a circular economy. Although SCREEN has worked in a completely independent and separate way from the Commission's product, there is a noticeable correspondence between the indicators of the document mentioned and the evaluation criteria proposed for the projects, as shown in the following figure.
Comparation between the indicators in the Monitoring framework document and the assessment criteria; click to download pdf version
March 2018-May2018. Stakeholder consultation through an online questionnaire hosted by the Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform. Presentation of the results during the fourth Policy Lab hosted by the European and Economic Social Committee.
June 2018-September2018We worked on the 165 answers received, as well as on the 43 optional detailed comments
October 2018.Current version of the assessment criteria table presented at the SCREEN final conference
