Piloting
As part of the Nordic Circularity Piloting Program, six pilots on circularity in technical building equipment will be selected to enjoy facilitated support and joint communications efforts. Read on for how to apply and how the Program supports the planning of pilots.
Forming pilots (Spring 2025)
- Companies pitch their piloting ideas at the events (Feb 13th, March 6th, April 10th, May 15th)
- Speed dating between companies at the events
- Open access Pilot Cards at Miro to explore and connect with potential partners
- Friday Fika for informal networking to meet peers
- Meetings between piloting partner companies to plan and agree on the details of the pilots
- A Circular Pilot Canvas is available for download to help plan pilots and prepare for filling in the Application Form.
- Pilot partner companies write up pilot descriptions and fill in the Application Form for the Steering group’s review by June 6th
- Steering group meeting on June 16th to decide which six pilots get to enjoy the program’s facilitated support and comms efforts
How to apply?
The deadline to apply for the Nordic Circularity Piloting Program is June 6th, 2025, at 23:59 CET.
Please submit your application via Typeform.
The information you provide will help the Steering Group evaluate your project's potential, feasibility, and alignment with the program’s goals.
You can use the free Circular Pilot Canvas tool to plan your pilot and prepare for the application.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to reach out to melissa.kanerva@combient.com
Please note that the Program does not provide funding for pilot projects.
The form will ask for the following information:
Contact details a. Contact person b. Company c. Email address d. Phone number
- Project title
- Brief description of the piloting project
- Piloting timeline (planned start and end date)
- Which technical building equipment is involved? (product category like HVAC, elevator, etc.)
- Which companies are involved and what are their roles?
- Are all pilot partners ready to publicly share the learnings and insights from the pilot, in line with the program’s ambitions? (Learnings from the pilots will be shared in the final report & final event, and used to make policy recommendations).
- How does the pilot demonstrate and promote resource efficiency and emission reductions in the industry?
- How does the pilot contribute to improving or ensuring energy efficiency?
- What goals and KPIs are used to determine circularity performance in the pilot? (e.g., extended product life, material savings, CO2 reduction, cost savings, etc.)
- Please evaluate the likelihood of the pilot being executed by the end of 2025 (from the perspective of all stakeholders)
- What is the market potential of your pilot, and how can it be scaled for greater adoption and impact in the future?
Decisions on the selected pilots will be made during week 25 and communicated directly to the contact person in each pilot team, as indicated in the Application Form.
Selection criteria for circular pilots
1. Strategic Fit
- The pilot should promote circularity in technical building equipment and enhance value chain-wide collaboration
- The pilot should concretely aim to explore increasing the circularity of technical building equipment, e.g. reuse, refurbishment, remanufacturing, intensifying product and resource usage, closing resource loops
- Improving or ensuring energy efficiency necessary
- Actors need to be willing to share results and insights from piloting publicly, in line with the program’s ambitions
2. Feasibility and Readiness
- The proposed solution should be at a stage where it can be tested in a real building
- The pilot should optimally involve at least two actors across the value chain to test collaborative dynamics and validate circular business models.
- All necessary stakeholders (e.g. product manufacturer, property owner) should be willing and able to actively participate
- The pilot team should demonstrate access to the resources (financial, technical, human) required to execute the pilot successfully
3. Impact and Scaling
- Most impactful pilots when it comes to resource efficiency improvement and emission reduction impact will be prioritized
- Pilots groups should have clearly defined goals related to circularity (e.g. lifetime extension, material savings) and optimally also ability to measure the solution’s CO2 reduction impact
- The solution should have the potential to scale commercially
Download the Circular Pilot Canvas
The Nordic Circularity Piloting Program has developed the Circular Pilot Canvas as a free tool for any piloting team to use in developing pilots. The Canvas helps plan out the pilot activities, as well as prepare answers to the Program Application Form.
The Canvas is built to address the three main questions to be validated during piloting:
- Value Proposition - Is there demand?
- Circular Business Model - Is it worth it?
- Feasibility & Readiness - Can we do it?
The Canvas also helps prepare for and anticipate common challenges in piloting circular business models.
