The Research and Development Centre for Circular Economy will concentrate excellent scientific and innovation teams and capacities with the ambition to integrate its sites in Třinec and Ostrava into the system of national reference laboratories. CirkArena builds on a broad partnership, will be a bridge between the technology and knowledge base and will help accelerate R&D, innovation and education activities in the field of circular economy. In June 2021, the CirkArena project was selected as one of the strategic projects of the Moravian-Silesian Region, that will apply for funding from the OP Fair Transformation.