Arbeidsgrupper - NCCE
NCCE

Working groups


Members contribute to this goal by:

  • Developing new technology and circular business models for waste and side streams.
  • Developing new value chains and markets for waste and side streams across existing industries.
  • Influencing operating conditions to open new markets for products based on waste and side streams.

We are a practical-minded cluster, and we establish working groups centred around different topics to achieve our goals. Here, members can get involved as participants and be the driving force to solve our collective challenges in collaboration with other cluster members.

At present, we have working groups for multiple topics, and the groups themselves organise how they work. The working groups bring a resource from the administration or the board. Feel free to contact us if you would like to participate or if you have input on topics other than the ones we currently have:


Quality, price, and stable access are the biggest challenges to the development of new value chains and markets for processed waste and side streams. There is therefore a need for research and innovation for new technologies and new processes that can boost the quality and increase the use of secondary raw materials, in addition to making these competitive with similar products on the market. The development of secondary raw materials must be done in close cooperation with all players in the value chain. The working group is working to develop joint projects that can solve circular challenges and create new circular value chains.

Contact: Natalia Mathisen

Operating conditions create barriers to product and market development, especially in the field of waste management law. This happens in several areas, such as in regulations, administrative burdens, incentives, and bans. The working group will work to implement frameworks that promote a transition to a circular economy, in collaboration with relevant partners in the ecosystem. As part of this work, the cluster has initiated a project that includes our co-financing of an industry PhD in Norwegian and EU waste management law.

    Contact: Natalia Mathisen

    Access to capital and project funds is essential in supporting R&D activities, commercialising pilot projects, and company development. The working group will work on a strategy for how the cluster can serve as a bridge between companies that need capital and the opportunities that lie in policy instruments, as well as in both national and international private and public investment environments and funds

    Contact: Tina Wågønes

    A lack of knowledge about circular economies is a challenge for many companies, in many disciplines, and at every educational level from vocational schools and colleges to universities and professional development. The working group will contribute to the development of expertise development programmes adapted to our present and future needs in order to improve knowledge regarding, and to ensure the implementation of, a more sustainable management of our resources.

    Contact: Tina Wågønes

    Norwegian companies have the knowledge, technology and circular solutions for a market that goes far beyond the borders of Norway. The working group looks at how we can help companies gain access and establish themselves in new markets.

    Contact: Tina Wågønes