Circular Economy Management
Sustainable, future-oriented, interdisciplinary
Have you already earned an undergraduate degree, but find you are not quite ready for a master’s yet? Are you disappointed with the current job market as a new graduate? Would you like to enhance your résumé with additional qualifications and improve your long term career prospects? Then consider enrolling in the Future Semester certificate programme offered by Rhine-Waal and Ruhr-West Universities of Applied Sciences. Choose between several exciting specialization paths!
Are you intrigued by the field of sustainability and interested in a career where you can make meaningful contributions towards protecting the environment and improving social equality? Does the thought of studying effective resource management to reduce waste and preserve value sound appealing?
Then pursue a specialisation in Circular Economy Management!
What is Circular Economy Management about?
- Thinking in closed loops to ensure greater recyclability of products and materials: circular value chains instead of wasteful linear value chains.
- Re-envisioning the development and manufacturing of new products. Planning from the get-go how products can be used more effectively and for longer, and accounting for what happens after their life cycles.
- Using innovative technologies, processes and business models to close the product loops, ensuring longer term use of materials and reducing risk to both people and the environment.
- Considering possible future developments in the political, administrative and commercial conditions for “circular economies”.
- Implementing a continuous improvement process and measuring progress towards a "circular economy" according to specific indicators.
What can you expect from a specialisation in Circular Economy Management?
- You will learn the fundamental principles of circular (and not linear) value chains through real case studies, particularly with regard to goals, strategies and concepts, indicators and terminology, action areas and measures.
- You will on your own application-oriented project in the field of the Circular Economy individually or in a team, for example in cooperation with the research project Prosperkolleg (www.prosperkolleg.de).
- You will acquire a deeper understanding of select topic areas within the field of Circular Economy Management.
- You will have the opportunity to acquire additional professional skills in personal development, languages or IT.
The Future Semester programme offers graduates of both universities the opportunity to obtain additional professional skills and qualifications while retaining their student status, which also prolongs their eligibility for positions as a working student or practical projects for students at host companies.
The Future Semester was developed by university teachers for their graduates. It is a direct and pragmatic certificate programme designed to help students beyond the usual means of the participating universities!
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