You can now apply to join The Circular Lab in 2025. Submit your application no later than 8 January.
Do you have a new solution that can contribute to recycling rather than discarding? Do you want to test if your circular business model holds up? Or are you developing a product, a design, a rental solution, or new working methods that can contribute to a circular future?
Then you can participate when The Circular Lab offers the entire Roskilde Festival as a test platform for circular products and ideas.
With 130,000 residents, Roskilde Festival shapes up as Denmark's fourth-largest city and Denmark's largest test laboratory for circular ideas for eight days.
Here, in easily accessible and forgiving settings, you can gather knowledge and data on guests' interaction with your solution, or you can stress test it in a lively environment with many people.
Send your application to opencall.circularlab@roskilde-festival.dk.
The deadline for applications is 8 January 2025.
Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. We will get back to you no later than two weeks after the deadline.
What you get from testing your solution through The Circular Lab:
- Opportunity to test in Denmark's largest test laboratory for circular innovation
- Assistance in implementing your test in the most relevant areas of the festival
- Access to a network consisting of The Circular Laboratory partners and other entrepreneurs
- Exposure to relevant target groups
- A spot in our test workshops before, during, and after the festival, where you will be taught about test design, validation, and how to use your collected data to raise investment or enter the market
- Opportunity to seek funding through The Circular Laboratory for adjustments to the prototypes/systems you need to test
- Free access to office coworking space and guidance in the innovation hub KU Lighthouse in Copenhagen
- Invitations to other events, knowledge sharing, and testing opportunities
If you join our testing platform, we expect you to
- Share the knowledge you gather with the lab and assist in completing evaluations.
- Commit a certain level of engagement and effort to the testing process.
- Adhere to the contract we draft and sign.
- Attend preparatory workshops and other events before and after the test.
The Circular Lab covers access to the festival. Additionally, beyond your festival ticket, you can easily apply for reimbursement for costs related to prototype adjustments, transport, and purchasing or renting small items necessary for your test's success.
You can test your solution in several locations:
We have a dedicated area for entrepreneurs primarily needing user feedback on aspects such as design, ideas, or taste.
If you need to test in collaboration with one of the festival’s partners—perhaps you’ve developed a coffee cup to test in a café, or a product best suited for a specific area—we’ll help you place your test in the right setting.
- Test readiness (are you at a stage in your development where testing and validation are needed?)
- Creativity and innovation
- Relevance to solving a problem (reducing resource consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and promoting biodiversity)
- The degree of added value for the green transition
- Scalability
The Circular Lab primarily targets entrepreneurs under 30, but we can accept a limited percentage of participants from other age groups.
The solutions do not need to cater to a festival market in their final form. As long as the product can be tested within the festival framework and has the potential to contribute to a circular society, your application is valid.
If you have any questions about the application process, feel free to send an email to Bo Astrup Kristensen at bo.astrup@roskilde-festival.dk or Kristine Barenholdt Bruun at kristine.barenholdt@roskilde-festival.dk.
