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| Detailinformationen |
| Anmeldevoraussetzungen |
(*)IK Circular Economy Fundamentals
(parallel enrolment in the same semester possible on request)
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| Quellcurriculum |
Masterstudium Sustainability and Plastics Management (SPM) 2025W |
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Kompetenzen |
(*)- Competency to identify, scope, and translate current scientific research on the circular economy into meaningful research questions, industry application, and recommendations.
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Kenntnisse |
(*)- Ability to analyze current research findings and discuss their implications for circular economy practices (K4).
- Skill to evaluate innovation processes for their potential to advance circularity in different industries (K5).
- Ability to analyse strategies for managing partnerships and collaboration within circular value cycles (K4).
- Skill to integrate smart product concepts as enablers for implementing circular economy strategies (K3).
- Ability to assess the role of quality standards and certification systems in supporting circular economy goals (k5).
- Skill to formulate design strategies for circular products that consider the entire lifecycle (K6).
- Ability to apply research methods (K3).
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(*)- Identify the latest research topics and their significance for implementing circular economy principles (K2).
- Understand the current scientific discourse on CE and its application in industry (K2).
- Explain innovation processes that support the development of circular solutions (K2).
- Recognize strategies for managing partnerships and fostering collaboration across the value cycle (K2)
- Outline the enabling role of smart products in advancing the circular economy (K2)
- List design principles for circular products, including modularity and lifecycle thinking (K1).
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| Beurteilungskriterien |
(*)Exam or class assignments and active participation
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| Lehrmethoden |
(*)Research-based seminar in which students work alone or in groups on selected circular economy topics.
Initial literature is provided by the instructor is used to enter the scientific field. This allows students to get an in-depth insight into the current scientific discourse.
Manifold practical insights into diverse industries through practical examples or case-based teaching.
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| Abhaltungssprache |
Englisch |
| Literatur |
(*)To be announced
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| Lehrinhalte wechselnd? |
Nein |
| Sonstige Informationen |
(*)The Circular Economy (CE) is a new vision covering the multiple levels of economies, organizations and individuals (as well as the societies they are embedded in) by addressing several of today's challenges. Such challenges include resource scarceness (e.g. critical materials), environmental pollution and degradation (e.g. climate change, loss of biodiversity, unhealthy products) and the increasing dependency on ever increasing production quantities (and related resource usage) for safeguarding (national) employment levels. The CE proposes a value creation architecture based on material flows circulating either in biological cycles (e.g. biodegradable products) or technical cycles (e.g. reuse, refurbishing, repairing, recycling of products and materials) ultimately aiming at higher resource efficiency, decreased dependency on external inputs and significant increase of regional job opportunities in the service sector (e.g. repair, refurbishing). Furthermore, product sharing (e.g. carsharing) is considered an additional strategy for using existing resources more intensively.
Against this background, this seminar will look at the implications of the CE for product and service development strategies (e.g. design-for-circularity, product take-back strategies), quality design and management (e.g. quality criteria for cycled materials and products) and firm's business models (e.g. transformation from product sales to product-service-systems approach).
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| Frühere Varianten |
Decken ebenfalls die Anforderungen des Curriculums ab (von - bis)
480AMSGCE1K17: KS Circular Economy 1: Innovation, Design and Quality Perspectives (2017W-2023S)
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