The BASF Group and Club of Excellence in Sustainability and with the collaboration of Green Efe as a media partner have opened the call for the fifth edition of the awards for the best practice of Circular Economy in Spain.
The objective of these awards is to recognize those projects and research works that, based on the circular economy, contribute or have the potential to contribute substantially to the development of business competitiveness in our country, with special attention to those projects that include the perspective of environmental and social sustainability in the development and object thereof. The period for receiving applications, which began today, will be open until next 23 of June 2023.
Carles navarro, general director of BASF Española, praises the will of both institutions to promote the circular economy throughout these five years. A commitment, he explains, aligned with BASF's “firm commitment to the circular economy and sustainability. On the one hand, we make efforts to circularize our own industrial processes and, on the other, as a chemical company, we research and develop solutions so that others find their way to the circular model. Any initiative aimed at promoting new models, products and services of these characteristics that are beneficial to society and the environment will have an ally in BASF. Now more than ever it is important to create chemistry for a sustainable future.”
The categories in which the prize is divided are:
- Best Public Initiative
- Best Practice Circular Large Companies
- Best Circular practice in SMEs
- Best Circular Start-up
- Best Circular Practice in the Academic World
- Best practice Circular for Disclosure: those works or articles in the media will be rewarded; scientific papers, influencer dissemination or dissemination initiatives, better initiatives in blogs, etc., related to the circular economy.
The criteria by which the candidacies and options for the award are governed are:
- Projects in the development phase, be it partial or total, at the time of submitting the application.
- The scope of action is the Spanish territory, regardless of whether its scope is national, regional or local in Spain.
- With results – total or partial – verifiable.
- Based on the concept of circular economy and that contribute to reduce or avoid the use of natural resources in our economy through the aforementioned business models.
The bases of the awards will be exposed in the newsletter of the Excellence in Sustainability Club www.most responsible.org
The jury will be made up of renowned experts at an institutional, academic and business level in business and technological innovation, development of training programs, and sustainability, as well as senior managers from BASF in Spain and the Sustainability Excellence Club.
The winning initiatives, as well as the rest of the proposals submitted, will form part of the online library of good practices in the circular economy in Spain, the largest of these characteristics and promoted by BASF based on its awards. Hosted on the Responsibility/i+ platform of the Sustainability Excellence Club, the platform allows filtering by size of the organization, circular business model and by sectors.
