Education
Education is key in building our institutional capacity to get CE accelerated! Therefore, the Delft Circularity Lab is committed to develop further world class teaching courses and programmes.
Circular Economy Teaching at TPM
- Course program Industrial Ecology(TUD & CML)
- Erasmus Mundus CIRCLE program (with TU Chalmers, NTNU,Graz University,Leiden University)
- Circular Economy Course for CIRCLE program (GK, elective for TU and LU students)
- CE thesis circle (JQ-GK)
- CE growing as thesis topic also with LDE
- Integration CE in existing courses (energy/supply chains/innovation/transitions)
Education programmes
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The Master of Science in Industrial Ecology (IE) offers talented students from around the world the opportunity to enhance their expertise and work on the grand challenge of achieving global prosperity within planetary boundaries. The course program has a strong focus on Circular Economy and attracts annually > 100 new students.
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The Industrial Ecology program participates in an European program on Circular Economy, this means that CIRCLE students join the classes in Industrial Ecology both in Leiden as in Delft.
The International Master's Program on Circular Economy is at the heart of the EU needs of the "Europe 2020 strategy" and the "Circular Economy Package”. It combines natural, social and technical sciences and will equip the students with the necessary tools to contribute greatly to the necessary transition into a more sustainable society. -
One of the key courses in the CIRCLE program is ‘Circular Economy’, a course module jointly offered by Delft and Leiden. This course is a first-year elective module for the joint degree MSc Program on Industrial Ecology and compulsory for the first-year Erasmus Mundus CIRCLE students. The course teaches basic concepts, methods, tools, and indicators related to the circular economy. The course can annually let 60 students in, but as it gains traction it is investigated if and how more students can take the course.
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Delft Circularity Lab (Jaco Quist) is running an ongoing thesis circle on Circular Economy & SCP (Sustainable Consumption and Produciton) where students from different Master programs at TPM, such as Industrial Ecology, MoT, EPA, CME and CoSEM and MADE can do a thesis project on a topic on CE or on the strongly related topic of SCP. All topics relate to closing, slowing and reducing resource loops through innovation, transitions and industrial symbiosis. Different perspectives can be taken at different scales, including business models, collaboration in circular value chains and eco-industrial park, niche and transition evaluations, social innovation, and sectoral and policy perspectives. Meetings of the thesis circle take place on average every 1.5 to 2 months where students can present on their progress and get feedback from other students and the thesis circle coordinator. Over 20 thesis projects on CE topics have been completed since 2020.