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Circular Economy - Sustainable Materials Management

This course looks at where important materials in products we use every day come from and how these materials can be used more efficiently, longer, and in closed loops. This is the aim of the Circular Economy, but it doesn’t happen on its own. It is the result of choices and strategies by suppliers, designers, businesses, policymakers and all of us as consumers. In addition to providing many cases of managing materials for sustainability, the course also teaches skills and tools for analyzing circular business models and promotes development of your own ideas to become more involved in the transition to a Circular Economy. You will learn from expert researchers and practitioners from around Europe as they explain core elements and challenges in the transition to a circular economy over the course of 5 modules: Module 1: Materials. This module explores where materials come from, and builds a rationale for why society needs more circularity. Module 2: Circular Business Models. In this module circular business models are explored in-depth and a range of ways for business to create economic and social value are discussed. Module 3: Circular Design, Innovation and Assessment. This module presents topics like functional materials and eco-design as well as methods to assess environmental impacts. Module 4: Policies and Networks. This module explores the role of governments and networks and how policies and sharing best practices can enable the circular economy. Module 5: Circular Societies. This module examines new norms, forms of engagement, social systems, and institutions, needed by the circular economy and how we, as individuals, can help society become more circular. This course is brought to you by: LUND UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS (IIIEE) EIT RAWMATERIALS VITO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS GHENT UNIVERSITY DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

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Rating 4.8★ based on 61 ratings
Length 6 weeks
Effort 5 weeks of study, 5-8 hours per week. You may transfer to later sessions to extend the course.
Starts May 22 (48 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From EIT RawMaterials, VITO, National Technical University of Athens, Delft University of Technology, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Lund University, Ghent University, International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics via Coursera
Instructors Jessika Luth Richter, Sophie Sfez, Konstantinos Modis, Erika Faigen, David Peck, Jeroen Gillabel, Philip Peck, Katherine Whalen, Karl Vrancken, Saskia Manshoven, Julia Nußholz, Dr. Yuliya Voytenko Palgan
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Subjects Social Sciences Business Engineering Science
Tags Social Sciences Governance And Society Business Physical Science And Engineering Environmental Science And Sustainability Business Strategy

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circular economy

It provides the attendants with useful skills, specific knowledge and help them to reason and deduce new solution about resources management, in order to support the transition to a global circular economy.

Multiple sides of Circular Economy are touched in a very attractive and informative manner.

This Course is highly recommended for those individuals who are interested in learning circular economy in depth.

Great for anyone with limited knowledge on the circular economy as it starts from the beginning of a product life cycle and works all the way to policies that can help move societies to a more circular framework.

Goes into quite a detail on circular economy.

Enjoyed the broad range of topics and stimulating ideas to create a society that takes care of our finite resources, pollute less while aiming to keep our living standard I think that the course gives interesting tips to get started to circular economy.

It provides tools to analyze circular business models and allows to know the experiences of companies that have already been implementing the circular economy in their corporate strategy.

Industries, governments, academia- everyone should be planning to implement respective stages of circular economy within their fields.

I recommend this course to anyone interested in sustainable resources and the circular economy!

excellent course to get the foundation of circular economy Very good introduction to Circular Economy.

Best course to gain insights of circular economy with implementable suggestions and efforts needed..

Excellent training, I learned a lot about the circular economy this will help me in my future job (designer), the courses are complete and tests pushed.

We learn the key points about circular economy and how minerals, speacially the scarcer ones, need to be circularized to garantee the necessary stocks for modern life speacially for countries in developing.

The chapter one seems a little confuse because it speaks about circular economy and extraction of metals in a separated way.

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very well structured

Very well structured course and great knowledge shared!

Very well structured and very inspiring!

Amazing Course that tackle the challenges of product development and how to make the product last longer taking into consideration different aspect of Circular Economy This course was very well structured and very up to date when it comes to the materials and information used.

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recommend it

I recommend it to everyone, not only the "sustainable geeks".

Overall, a very good course, fully recommend it!

It was such an enriching experience, I´ve learned a lot and I´m more into a circular economy.I really recommend it.

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material management

As an introduction course to sustainable material management the course was valuable.

It leaves the student broad high-level understanding of elements to consider when addressing sustainable material management.

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Rating 4.8★ based on 61 ratings
Length 6 weeks
Effort 5 weeks of study, 5-8 hours per week. You may transfer to later sessions to extend the course.
Starts May 22 (48 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From EIT RawMaterials, VITO, National Technical University of Athens, Delft University of Technology, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Lund University, Ghent University, International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics via Coursera
Instructors Jessika Luth Richter, Sophie Sfez, Konstantinos Modis, Erika Faigen, David Peck, Jeroen Gillabel, Philip Peck, Katherine Whalen, Karl Vrancken, Saskia Manshoven, Julia Nußholz, Dr. Yuliya Voytenko Palgan
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Social Sciences Business Engineering Science
Tags Social Sciences Governance And Society Business Physical Science And Engineering Environmental Science And Sustainability Business Strategy

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