Circular economy

About the program

The Center for Research and Policy Making (CRPM) is actively engaged in advancing the Green Agenda in North Macedonia, focusing on sustainable development and environmental protection. Through evidence-based research, policy advocacy, and capacity-building initiatives, CRPM supports the transition to a green economy.

Key areas of focus include promoting circular economy, renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, waste management, and biodiversity conservation. CRPM collaborates with national and international stakeholders to ensure policies align with the principles of the Green Agenda, fostering economic growth while addressing environmental challenges.

By engaging with policymakers, civil society, and the public, CRPM works to ensure an inclusive and effective green transition for a sustainable future.

About the projects:

I love Skopje green

The City of Skopje, through the sector Education is supporting the implementation of the project I love Skopje green.

The project is within the framework of the CRPM Sustainable Development Program, sub-program for climate change and waste management. Within the framework of the project, youth-eco-activism was promoted and citizens’ engagement in recognizing, reporting and clean-ups are encouraged, focusing on proper bio-waste management (composting) in the high-schools.

The goals of the project are to reach out to citizens through social networks to report existing or new illegal landfills, clean them up through joint actions in which the local community will actively participate, increase awareness and the importance of proper waste management and reuse through an educational/promotional campaign, as well as increase composting capacities in high schools, and thus actively use compost to maintain school greenery.

Donors: The City of Skopje.

Capacity development of Informal Green Parliamentary Group in North Macedonian EU-complaint energy and transport goals

Center for Research and Policy Making (CRPM) is implementing the project ” Capacity development of Informal Green Parliamentary Group in North Macedonian EU-complaint energy and transport goals“, which is financially supported by the German Federal Government, provided through the Open Regional Fund for South-East Europe – Energy, Transport and Climate Protection (ORF-ETC). ORF-ETC is commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), co-funded by the European Union, and implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.

The project is within the framework of the CRPM Sustainable Development Program, sub-program for Climate Change. Within the framework of the project, the MPs of the Macedonian Parliament who are members of the Green Parliamentary Group, alongside the respective staff of the Parliamentarian Committees on Economic Affairs, and Transport, Connections and Ecology, are acquainted with the latest developments regarding the Decarbonization pillar of the Green Agenda.

The goal of the project is to create a platform for dialogue and discussion among MPs from the GPG and encouraging a discourse aiming at sensitizing the general public on the benefits of rational use of energy and practicing smart and clean urban mobility. This project also brings up a regional dimension through the regional exchanges among the GPGs from WB in light of the Sofia Declaration.

Donors: German Federal Government, provided through the Open Regional Fund for South-East Europe – Energy, Transport and Climate Protection (ORF-ETC).

Development of an organic waste management in grapes and wine production in Tikveš region

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the private partner Bovin Winery, in cooperation with the Center for Research and Policy Making (CRPM), are implementing the project ” Development of an organic waste management in grapes and wine production in Tikveš region”, which is financially supported by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany (BMZ).

The project is within the framework of the CRPM Sustainable Development Program, sub-program for the development of a circular economy. Within the framework of the project, a circular business models were developed and piloted, including sharing, processing, reusing and recycling of bio-waste in the long term.

The goal of the project is to create and establish an efficient and sustainable model for bio-waste management (utilization) from wine and grape production in Macedonia. This project engage big and family wineries from the Tikvesh region, local authorities from Demir Kapija, Kavadarci and Negotino, PUCs, several higher education institutions, line ministries, civil society organizations and associations working in the field of ecology and the wine industry.

Donors: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

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