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Impulsa Circular Meeting 2026

While last year’s Impulsa Circular Meeting revolved around the launch of the Balearic Islands’ first Circular Roadmap, this year it opens a new chapter with the activation of reN · Balear Circular Hub. Because the challenge is no longer simply to share a common direction, but to begin putting it into practice. 


Activating reN · Balear Circular Hub

In this context, the hub’s annual gathering is structured around a decisive question: what does it take for a shared direction to translate into a community, projects, partnerships and new capacities for action?

Through four movements —gather, connect, mobilise and showcase— ICM 2026 sets out to move from the Roadmap to the hub, from the platform to the community, and from the community to action.

Date

September 16, 2026

Place

Palma Aquarium

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Speakers

Legarda Campos

Legarda Campos

Regional Strategy Development Officer

Sodena

Alejandro Dorado

Alejandro Dorado

Commissioner for the Circular Economy

Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge

Ladeja Godina

Ladeja Godina

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Circular Change

Andoni Hidalgo

Andoni Hidalgo

Value Chain Transformation Lead

Climate-KIC

Carmen Planas

Carmen Planas

Vice-President

Impulsa Balears

Margalida Prohens

Margalida Prohens

President

Govern de les Illes Balears and Impulsa Balears

Antoni Riera

Antoni Riera

Technical Director

Impulsa Balears

Pau Ruiz

Pau Ruiz

Research Consultant and Strategist

Circle Economy

Diego Viu

Diego Viu

Director-General for the Circular Economy, Energy Transition and Climate Change

Govern de les Illes Balears

Bart Volkers

Bart Volkers

Director

Circulair Groningen Drenthe

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Program

9:00 am

Registration and welcome

9:30 am

Opening remarks

   • Carmen Planas, Vice-President, Impulsa Balears 

9:45 am
Key 1 · Gather

What does it mean to open a new chapter?

This first key session presents how reN will operate in this new phase and the role its participation platform will play in delivering the Circular Roadmap. It focuses on the mechanisms that will help identify capabilities, connect stakeholders and turn shared interests into concrete collaborations and initiatives.


   • Antoni Riera, Technical Director, Impulsa Balears 

10:15 am
Key 2 · Connect

How is a community built?

Building a community involves much more than bringing people and organisations together in the same space. Through a conversation with international leaders in community building and systems transformation, we explore what it takes to move from dispersed stakeholders to a connected community, and from a reference platform to a useful, dynamic space with lasting collective momentum.


   • Ladeja Godina, Founder and Executive Director, Circular Change
   • Bart Volkers, Director, Circulair Groningen Drenthe


Moderator: Andoni Hidalgo, Value Chain Transformation Lead, Climate-KIC

11:00 am

Coffee break

11:30 am
Key 3 · Showcase

How can a place-based experience become a model for others?

We focus on how a place-based experience can gain robustness, visibility and the capacity to become a reference for other regions. Drawing on local, national and international perspectives, we explore what the Balearic Islands need to position their circular transition as a model that others can learn from and replicate, grounded in real cases, evidence, partnerships and transferability.


   • Legarda Campos, Regional Strategy Development Officer, Sodena

   • Pau Ruiz, Research Consultant and Strategist, Circle Economy


Moderator: Antoni Riera, Technical Director, Impulsa Balears

12:15 pm
Key 4 · Mobilise

What does it take for a community to spring into action?

A community gains transformative capacity when its members stop being merely recipients of information and begin engaging in challenges, partnerships, projects and shared solutions. Through an inspiring keynote, this session explores the conditions needed to mobilise complex ecosystems and turn a shared ambition into initiatives capable of influencing value chains.


   • Andoni Hidalgo, Value Chain Transformation Lead, Climate-KIC

13:00 h
Institutional dialogue

Public policies to activate and scale the circular transition

   • Alejandro Dorado, Commissioner for the Circular Economy, Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge

   • Diego Viu, Director-General for the Circular Economy, Energy Transition and Climate Change, Govern de les Illes Balears


Moderator: Antoni Riera, Technical Director, Impulsa Balears

13:20 pm

Closing remarks

   • Margalida Prohens, President, Govern de les Illes Balears and Impulsa Balears

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