EC7 - International Conference/Bootcamp on Digital Deep tech Driven Circular Economy

This postgraduate course awards academic credit through participation in an international online conference or bootcamp on digital deep-tech innovations driving the circular economy. Students engage with expert lectures, research presentations and workshops exploring how technologies such as AI, IoT and blockchain support sustainable business models, resource efficiency and system resilience. Through critical analysis of conference content and real-world case studies, the course connects digital transformation with circular economy frameworks and ethical considerations, while strengthening students’ analytical, interdisciplinary and communication skills in an international context.

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Research & Critical Analysis

Communication & Knowledge Sharing

Global Collaboration & Lifelong Learning

Your 13-Week Journey

Understanding circular economy principles and how data enables social impact and circular strategies.

Mapping and integrating material, environmental, and social data to support transparency and decision-making.

Exploring data-driven sharing models such as libraries of things and community reuse initiatives.

Exploring smart city concepts through architecture and contemporary urban planning.

Applying circular economy principles in cooperatives, social enterprises, and community-based organisations.

Understanding ethical, legal, and governance challenges in socially oriented circular data systems.

Measuring and reporting social impact in data-driven circular economy models.

Analysing regulatory, organisational, and privacy challenges affecting social circular initiatives.

Exploring policy frameworks and data infrastructures that enable social circular economies.

Understanding how EU strategies support smart and circular regional development.

Developing metrics and indicators to measure social value in circular economy transitions.

Understanding how organisational culture enables or limits circular economy adoption.

Exploring emerging trends in data, inclusion, and next-generation social circular models.

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.