The Shared Innovation Agenda of the Foia de Castalla is coordinated by AIJU and IVACE. Its objective is to activate systemic change in the territory, so that there is a transition to the Circular Economy.

This Shared Agenda for Circularity promotes spaces for debate on the impacts on the territory. It also seeks to identify opportunities for social and technological innovation in the territory of the region, and to open spaces for experimentation to create prototypes and pilot demonstrators.

In the process of creating sustainable projects in this Agenda, Monnou accompanied by facilitating agile dynamics of circular innovation. To reactivate the processes that had already been carried out previously, we started with a Circular Design Sprint.

With the Shared Agenda for the Circularity of the Foia de Castalla, we had begun to work collaboratively with different actors in the territory: companies, public administrations and associations, among others. A series of lines of action had been defined within the circular economy, among which the following were prioritized: waste and water.

To reactivate the collaborative process, define the sustainable projects to be carried out and create action plans, we created and facilitated a Circular Design Sprint.

We carried out the Circular Design Sprint during a morning at AIJU facilities, working on two main axes within the circular economy: waste and water. The Design Sprint is carried out with different agents of the territory (companies, municipalities, associations), to co-design future circular projects to be implemented.

The Sprint begins with a warm-up phase. In a second phase, the participants identify sustainable projects that have already been proposed, review and redesign them, and make a selection based on their feasibility and potential impact. All of this is then pooled among the different work areas (waste and water).

In a third phase, specific working groups are created for each of the selected projects. Each group works on the strategy of a circular project. Finally, in the fourth phase, the groups share their progress.

Thanks to the co-design process, it was achieved:

• Cohesion of the different stakeholders and their alignment with the Agenda.
• Select projects based on their feasibility and impact.
• Create working groups interested in the development of each of the projects.
• Create roadmaps for the development of each of the projects.
• Establish the basis for future support to the projects to be developed.

This is an example of co-creation to achieve the transition to a circular, collaborative economy for the common good.