The International Center for Resources and Innovation for Sustainable Development, an association constituted in accordance with the French law of 1901, was created in 2005 and is recognized as being of general interest. It aims to engage economic stakeholders, local authorities and business networks in the appropriation and implementation of collective processes of change for sustainable development, such as: circular economy, functional economy, industrial and territorial ecology.
Following a first collective action on the functional economy started in 2009, CIRIDD decided to create a club in order to keep the momentum going. The club was officially launched by CIRIDD on September 27, 2011 under the name Club d’acteurs pour une économie de Fonctionnalité (CLEF club). The club’s field of action is PPS and functional economy, both in its theorical domain and its operational implications with companies and local authorities.
CIRIDD is currently leading the CLEF Club within its initial regional scope: the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It aims to coordinate and implement collective work with its members to promote companies’ transition towards this model and enhance regional deployment of the functional economy. The CLEF Club therefore aims to bring together all entities with an interest in deploying the functional economy in the region and to support companies which engage in collective or individual initiatives. The club’s aim is to develop tools and methods for heightening awareness, training and diagnosis, and assisting companies in their transition to a functional economy.