By 2050, the European Union plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to zero and become the first "continent" to achieve climate neutrality. To become the first climate-neutral continent in accordance with the GreenDeal, a transformation to a resource-conserving and sustainability-oriented circular economy is necessary. With the Designed4Circularity network, we want to promote a circular transformation in which materials in the construction industry are kept in constant cycles and waste in the construction industry is not created in the first place. 

The background to the network is a vision of achieving a decoupling of economic growth from resource consumption through circular value creation. The scarcity of finite resources and high CO2 emissions in the construction industry will be addressed through the durable reuse of construction materials. Waste materials resulting from renovation, remodeling or demolition will be transformed into new materials and integrated into an innovative circular system. The value of products will be preserved. 

Design as the "heart" of a circular economy is to be considered, (further) developed and optimized. Innovative product cycles, materials, technologies and business models will be developed in the sense of a cradle-to-cradle economy, which are ecologically, economically and socially sustainable.