What We
Do

01
New skills and mindsets

Elearning

Introduction to circular economy

Take this course to learn the basics of the Circular Economy and what it has to offer us.

  • Limits to linear economy
  • Definitions and principles
  • Benefits and challenges
  • Circular EU landscape
  • CE in practice

Governing circular economy in cities

Learn about the different steps to implement circularity in your city
  • Sustainable cities frameworks
  • Circular city principles
  • Circular city frameworks
  • Tools and levers

Circular Business model innovation

Take a step by step approach to design a circular business model

  • Business model principles
  • Sustainable innovation
  • Circular innovation
  • Tools and processes
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Tools and resources

Circular business model toolkit

Understand

Draft your initial purpose, learn about your ecosystem and its actors, understand the context in which you want to operate, the value you might be able to create.

  • Purpose indentification
  • Stakeholder identification
  • Stakeholder priorisation
  • Offering diagrame
  • Value mapping

Design

Define the future users of your solution, bridge it with the circular value you intend to create.

  • Defining personas
  • Value proposition design
  • Sustainability check
  • Swot /Pestel
  • Circular principles

Prototype and experiment

Test key assumptions and variables of the concept via simulations and field experiments.

  • Benchmark
  • User journey map
  • Creative debugging
  • Rapid experiment design
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Mentoring

Circular coaching

Circular Academy Sprint

The circular sprint in a 5 day coaching programme designed to solve your circularity challenges. In a multidisciplinary team of 8 to 10 staff members, we support you in reframing your challenge, we explore with your team circular opportunities, codesign a circular business model, prototype a rapid solution and get user feedback. Yes, in one week only!

  • User-centered design
  • Rapid experimenting
  • circularity check
  • Roadmapping

Circular facilitator as a service

The Academy team can act on demand and provide you with the necessary facilitation skills to create awareness, coach and mentor staff to design and implement a circular strategy

  • Consultancy on demand
  • Capacity building
  • Research and benchmark