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 re^N · Balear Circular Hub. Because the challenge is no longer simply to share a common direction, but to begin putting it into practice.

Activating re^N · 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

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 re^N 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 Košir, Founder and Executive Director, Circular Change
• Fiona Macklin, Head of Climate, Apolitical
• Carlota Sanz Ruiz, Co-founder and Executive Director, Doughnut Economics Action Lab

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 Bernal, Regional Strategy Development Officer, Sodena

• Pau Ruiz, Research Consultant and Strategist, Circle Economy

• Bart Volkers, director, Circulair Groningen Drenthe

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 pm

Closing remarks

• Margalida Prohens, President, Government of the Balearic Islands and Impulsa Balears