Participants

Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Phys. Joachim Brötz

Department of Materials Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

Joachim Brötz is the coordinator of the Competence Centre for Materials Characterisation within the Institute of Materials Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt.

He has authored and co-authored over 70 cited publications in the field of Materials Science (h-index: 27) and is the local coordinator for the following international educational programs:

Management of Erasmus Mundus Master Courses FAME, FAME+ and AMIR-EM, Management of Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate IDS-FunMat, French-German Doctoral School DFDK Functional Materials for sustainable Energy and Information technology, Strategic Partnership EUCERMAT, European Master Course AMIS EIT-KIC, European Master Course AMIR EIT-KIC, and the European Strategic Partnerships IN4SOC and CIRC.LE.

Email: broetz@tu-darmstadt.de

Web: www.mawi.tu-darmstadt.de/competence

This project commits to empower new generations of professionals working in a circular transition with a socio-civic compromise. To that end, we establish the Circular & SOC Learning (CIRC.LE) Hub; a meeting point for students, professors, transdisciplinary experts, society at large, and decision-makers, working together with a circular and sociocivic compromise. In the Circular & SOC Learning Hub, students reflect on challenges by evaluating social and civic implications and become co-creators and active part of the challenge. This humanizing approach is here considered as the perfect complement to the technical skills for a true application of circularity principles. The CIRC.LE Hub creates a multi-stakeholder, participatory, democratic mutual learning and knowledge transfer platform and puts on the table complex dilemmas and “out of the box” ideas for students’ social and civic development and promoting local action and global thinking. This contributes to boosting the concept of the European Engineer. The pilot Circular & SOC Learning Hub will be promoted by the participating Universities and Associated Partners and then grow beyond this partnership.