The event examined how successful circularity-based and innovative local development policies and policy instruments need to create interconnections between and within different sectors, institutions and actors. A specific focus was devoted on bioeconomy and circular economy in tourism. Indeed, the bioeconomy aims at driving both sustainable development and circularity through reuse, repair and recycling, reducing the amount and total impact of waste. At the same time, circular tourism allows the application of circular economy approaches to the tourism sector in order to stimulate sustainable tourism.