EC2 - Circular Economy and Digital Health

Circular Economy and Digital Health is a postgraduate course that examines how circular economy principles can be applied to digital health technologies and healthcare systems. It focuses on the role of digital tools such as AI, IoT and lifecycle data platforms in improving resource efficiency, extending medical device lifecycles, and reducing waste. The course combines sustainability, innovation, and health management, addressing business models, standards, accessibility, and ethical and cybersecurity challenges in modern digital healthcare.

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Circular Digital Health Design

Data-Driven Healthcare Systems

Strategic & Ethical Health Innovation

Your 13-Week Journey

Understanding circular economy principles in digital healthcare systems.

Exploring how AI, IoT, big data and smart textiles support circular healthcare models.

Using digital twins and lifecycle data to optimise assets, devices and resource use.

Applying AI-driven insights to improve efficiency, sustainability and device lifecycles.

Designing circular business models and mapping digital health ecosystems.

Examining strategies driving circular and digital healthcare transformation.

Understanding standards that support sustainable healthcare operations.

Addressing inclusion, accessibility and responsible data governance.

Managing risk, cybersecurity and trust in circular digital health systems.

Implementing circular practices across healthcare supply chains.

Improving efficiency and sustainability in healthcare facilities.

Using lifecycle traceability tools for circular healthcare systems.

Exploring emerging research and future directions in the field.

Week 1 — Systems in Transition

See the world in systems.

Learn to rethink linear vs circular economies and explore planetary boundaries.

Week 2 — The Digital–Circular Nexus

Discover how tech enables sustainability.

Explore how AI, IoT, and data power circular innovation.

Week 3 — Policy as Infrastructure

Understand Europe’s circular blueprint.

Dive into the EU Green Deal, CEAP, and Digital Europe frameworks.

Week 4 — Designing for Re-entry

Design for durability, reuse, and remanufacturing.

Learn how digital twins and simulation tools extend product lifecycles.

Week 5 — Tracking Resources Through Data

Follow materials in motion.

Understand how IoT and data infrastructures create transparency in supply chains.

Week 6 — Blockchain for Accountability

Trust through transparency.

Explore blockchain’s potential for tracking, verification, and ethical assurance.

Week 7 — Learning Loops with AI

Let data drive regeneration.

See how AI and machine learning enable adaptive circular decision-making.

Week 8 — Cognitive Factories

Meet the new industrial symbiosis.

Examine how robotics and smart manufacturing create circular production systems.

Week 9 — Reverse Intelligence

Close the loop through recovery.

Explore reverse logistics, digital disassembly, and resource recovery networks.

Week 10 — Measuring Circularity

Turn data into progress.

Use metrics, KPIs, and dashboards to track circular performance.

Week 11 — Financing the Regenerative Future

Empower innovation.

Discover how deep-tech, investment, and valuation models support circular ventures.

Week 12 — Ethics and Mindsets

Lead with responsibility.

Reflect on ethics, human–machine collaboration, and the competences for circular leadership.

Week 13 — 2040 and Beyond

Imagine the future you want to build.

Learn to rethink linear vs circular economies and explore planetary boundaries.