About This Course
This course introduces postgraduate students to the EU regulatory and standardisation frameworks shaping the digital circular economy, focusing on how policy and law translate into concrete business obligations. It covers key initiatives such as the Green Deal, Circular Economy Action Plan, AI Act, ESPR, CSRD, CSDDD, and Digital Product Passports, alongside the role of European and international standards in enabling transparency, interoperability, and compliance. Through policy analysis and applied case studies, students learn to navigate complex regulatory environments, design compliance-ready strategies, and address ethical and governance challenges linked to digital technologies and circular value chains.
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What You Will Learn
Skills You Will Gain
Regulatory & Policy Analysis
Standards & Compliance Integration
Governance & Strategic Leadership
Your 13-Week Journey
Week 1 – EU Policy Foundations
Understanding the EU Green Deal, CEAP, and the logic of the twin transition.
Week 3 – Standardisation Basics
Exploring the role of standards in interoperability, trust, and market access.
Week 5 – Global Governance & Climate Law
Analysing international environmental law and power dynamics in climate governance.
Week 7 – Digital Product Passport Implementation
Understanding DPPs for traceability, compliance, and circular value creation.
Week 9 – Standards for the Digital Circular Economy
Applying circular economy principles in digital and technical standards.
Week 11 – Future Standards & Policy Directions
Anticipating how technology shapes future standards and regulation.
Week 13 – Understanding the EU AI Act
Assessing AI risks, compliance duties, and responsible system design.
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.
Learn With Us
Giorgos Demetriou
Associate Dean of Research and Innovation
Giorgos Demetriou
Associate Dean of Research and Innovation
Giorgos Demetriou
Associate Dean of Research and Innovation
Giorgos Demetriou
Associate Dean of Research and Innovation
Giorgos Demetriou
Associate Dean of Research and Innovation










