Circular Experiences circular@action r-mechanisms

Date of the activity: 19-20.01.2023
Organized by: ITU, SSA, UPM
Sponsors/ other stakeholders: Funded by EELISA Joint Inter-Institutional Activities in Communities

Circular@[action] is a series of integrated activities structured to introduce an innovative and creative platform to rethink education in European universities and explore alternatives for responsive, inclusive and interactive learning environments and strong communities. Promoting the incorporation of a mindset that favours the transition to the circular economy, the series attempts to tackle the circular challenges and socio-civic competencies in the form of research by practice. Circularity is transformed into a manifest by which every locality adds upon different meanings while producing its responses to tackle the challenges.

W0.1 R-mechanisms, Pisa, January 2023

W0.2 Cofabulating the Waste Terrain, Madrid, April 2023

W0.3 Summer School, Istanbul, September 2023*

# inscriptions: 74
# participants: 14 ITU (7), UPM (4), UPB (2), SSSA (1)
# staff: 8 staff ITU (4), UPM (2), SSSA (2)
# badges: 2
# ECTS: –
# mobilities: 13 (19 with staff)
Universities involved: ITU, UPM, UPB, SSSA

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.