Within Component 1 – Circular Economy of the EU-funded EU4Green Recovery East (EU4GRE) programme, ZSI implements the assignment “Technology Foresight for Circular Economy in Armenia and Moldova” in cooperation with National Service Providers from Armenia (CIVITTA AM) and Moldova (e-circular & DNT). The work is carried out under the overall supervision of UNIDO. The project identifies and prioritises technologies, innovation areas and enabling conditions that can accelerate the circular economy transition in selected value chains and industrial sectors in both countries. The foresight applies UNIDO’s circular economy framing: designing products to last, retaining the value of products and materials, minimising waste and pollution, and using renewable energy across value chains.
ZSI oversees the project implementation and gives methodological guidance. It provides the analytical execution and regional synthesis of the foresight cycle, ensuring methodological consistency, comparability and scientific quality. The work spans the refinement and validation of a multi-country foresight methodology, baseline and preconditions assessment, scoping and horizon scanning, and evidence-based scenarios across short-term, 2030 and 2035 horizons. Key transformative technologies are identified and assessed through expert surveys and panels and consolidated into a Technology Radar and Priority Matrix. The work also includes desirable long-term visions to 2035 and national roadmaps with actionable policy recommendations. Findings from Armenia and Moldova are consolidated into a supra-national synthesis and presented at a Regional Foresight Conference to support cross-country learning across the region.
Implementation is carried out in close cooperation with the UNIDO Team Lead (Strategic and Multi-country Foresight expert), who serves as methodological and quality-assurance focal point, and with the National Service Providers (NSPs) in Armenia and Moldova, who lead national coordination, stakeholder mobilisation, translation, survey dissemination and the facilitation of expert panels. Stakeholder mapping is provided by the EU4GRE team (Umweltbundesamt).
