Welcome to the HOOP Network of Cities and Regions

The HOOP Urban Circular Bioeconomy Hub is an online platform to foster knowledge exchange and replication in cities across Europe. Start exploring it now.

As an instrument to understand their current position/performance in implementing circularity at city level, HOOP is developing a circular ranking system to serve as the baseline for green policies and to boost investment projects for the production of urban biowaste & wastewater-based products. Cities and regions will be able to find out their circularity level by filling an online form in the Urban Circular Bioeconomy Hub.

An array of activities will be carried out throughout the project duration to share learnings and foster replication of urban bioeconomy concepts among the HOOP network of cities and regions. This will include: national replication workshops in the 8 countries of the lighthouse cities and regions, one-on-one capacity building including peer reviews and training sessions, and thematic study visits and workshops. Online webinars and forums will facilitate peer-to-peer learning between lighthouse- and network- cities and regions. To be kept abreast of these activities subscribe to our newsletter or register your city/region to our network.

The HOOP Virtual Academy is an online space hosted on the Urban Circular Bioeconomy Hub and specially targeting follower cities, providing them with access to resources and interactive services related to Urban Bioeconomy. The Virtual Academy will gather both outputs from the HOOP project and resources from other initiatives.