How to succeed in transforming the resource-intensive, linear economy into a circular economy in which the value and the raw materials contained in products are preserved in the best way possible after their usage phase? The Division Circular Economy focuses its research on this key question and develops targets and instruments for environmental services and digitalisation, which enables closed material cycles and creates the conditions for sustainable digitalisation. Following on from this, the analyses of the interplay between digitalisation and sustainability is one of the Division's main areas of its work.