Circular Economy Specialist (High-Mastery)

Circular Economy Specialist (High-Mastery) This verifiable certificate is hereby issued to the holder and serves as proof that all the requirements for the award of the professional certification have been fulfilled. The certificate holder has successfully met the course attendance requirements and achieved the necessary passing grade on all the respective examinations. The certificate holder established a specialist’s understanding of Circular Economy that goes far beyond the fundamentals and covers a broad spectrum of Circular Economy principles and practices. The courses composing the Circular Economy Specialist (High-Mastery) gave the holder additional insight into a wide range of tools, policies, business models, design principles, enabling technologies, best practices, and innovative strategies used to create a better tomorrow. The certificate holder has the knowledge necessary to act at the personal, corporate, institutional, and societal levels to accelerate the transition from the current take-make-dispose economic model – which continues to harm the planet, to a more circular economic model – which favours the planet. The eight core courses included in the Circular Economy Specialist (High-Mastery) program are as follows: “Circular Business Models: doing More, with Less, for Longer”: What’s inside: • What are Circular Business Models • What is the impact of CBMs? • How can we do more with what we have? • Why is remanufacturing so impactful? • How can we do more with less? • How important is refurbishing? • Closing Resource Flows • How can we turn industrial waste into raw material? “Circular by Design: Innovation, strategy and resource flows”: What’s inside: • What is circular design? • How to reach multiple product lifecycle? • How to slow resource flow? • How to close resource flow? • How to use biological strategies? • How to narrow resource flow? • How to design sustainable and circular behaviors? “Driving Circularity: The role of energy policy and legislation”: What’s inside: • What is the link between energy and climate change • What is the role of the circular economy in the energy sector? • Reshaping the energy system • What is renewable energy? • What are instrumental drivers for the transition to a circular economy? • What is the Paris Agreement? • What is the European Green Deal? • What is the New Circular Economy Action Plan? “Circular Industry 4.0: Redesigning the future”: What’s inside: • Why is Industry 4.0 crucial in the Circular Economy? • How will resources be extracted in a circular economy? • How can technology be advancing circular design? • How can smart factories enhance the circular economy? • What role do digital technologies play in enabling new circular services? • How can value be recaptured in the digital era? • How can technology support in the slowing and closing of flows? “Training for Circularity: Upskilling, reskilling, mobility and job creation”: What’s inside: • Why is upskilling and reskilling the workforce urgent? • Is a disruption in the labour market coming? • Which are the future Skills in demand? • Can we close the skills gap? • How do we close the skills gap? • What are the Drivers to the Circular Economy? • What is the role of organisations? • How can an organisation develop the Workforce? “Circular Together: How ecosystems will drive the transition”: What’s inside: • How can we shift away from the linear economy? • How can we transit toward a circular economy? • What is an ecosystem approach? • What’s the catch with ecosystems? • What are the synergies offered by an ecosystem? • What are the enablers for an ecosystem approach? • Case studies and best practices • The overarching impact of ecosystems on Circular Economy “Circular Supply Chains: Leveraging the power of strategic procurement”: What’s inside: • What is circular procurement? • Who has the power to advance the implementation of circular procurement? • What is the convergence between the linear and circular procurement? • What is the impact of circular procurement on circular supply chains? • What is the impact of circular procurement on the public and private sector? • What is the impact of circular procurement on Multinational corporations and SMEs? • What are the key elements to activate circular procurement practices? • Now, what? “Circular and Digital Economies: The dual transition”: What’s inside: • Repercussions of Linear Economy • The Digitally Empowered Circular Economy Alternative • The Forthcoming Digital Economy • Digitally Empowered Sustainable Competitiveness • Digitally Empowered SDGs • Policy Initiatives and Strategies as the Drivers of the Dual Transition • Circularity as Competitive Edge • Innovation Opportunities in the Circular Economy In addition to the eight core courses, the certificate holder completed four optional courses from the below optional courses list that cover diverse aspects of the Circular Economy that are closer to the certificate holder's practice. The list of the optional courses: • Circular Procurement: Innovative solutions in practice • Digitally Empowered Circular Economy: Business model and industrial innovation • Digitally Empowered Circular Economy: Industry 4.0 technological enablers • Circular Energy: The EU’s pathway to a circular and carbon-neutral future • Circular Water Management: A framework for the transition • Circular Life of Buildings: Designing out obsolescence • Circular Water Management 2: Closing the H2O loop • Designing out Waste: The challenges to full circularity • The Circular Flywheel: Green finance, building on success and strategic vision • Circular Performance Economy: Benefitting people, profits and planet