IF CEED 4th General Conference

Following through the successful conclusion of the first phase of the European Defence Agency's (EDA's) INCUBATION FORUM FOR CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN EUROPEAN DEFENCE (IF CEED), which has achieved the objective to both build the widest defence community in the EU engaged in Circular Economy (with more than 300 experts) and incubate more than a dozen collaborative and transnational topics for projects, a second phase of the same Forum (“IF CEED 2”) started in October 2023, under a 4-year official Contribution Agreement signed by the European Commission’s DG Environment (DG ENV) and the EDA, co-funded by the EU LIFE Programme (2021-2027).

“IF CEED 2” has now moved to the implementation phase, generating first concrete results with two initial projects. New "Starter Projects", launched in 2025, will further develop technologies, tools and best practices in support of circularity in defence!

The IF CEED Fourth Annual General Conference ("IFCEED4GC") allows for high-level sessions highlighting the synergies between circularity and operational efficiency, from resilience of supply chains to optimised use of materials. Parallel sessions will develop cross-fertilising approaches to keep liaising productively and igniting synergies among any expertise: from Ministries, industry, research-and-technology organisations, academia, other private and public bodies/entities.

The Conference is also a unique opportunity for networking and initiation of new collaborations.

This IF CEED Conference is organised the support of the Italian Ministry of Defence. It benefits of the collaboration with the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform (ECESP) - a joint initiative of the EESC and the DG ENV.

COUNTRY OF THEIR ENTITY (N.B.: representatives of EU bodies and international organisations are included under their respective location, i.e. 48 in Belgium, two from The Netherlands, 'one respectively in Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Spain, and Sweden)