Biobased Circular Value Chains
The biobased and circular transition requires decisions that go beyond good intentions. In the context of complex value chains, regulation, and market dynamics, actionable knowledge is essential. Here, you develop systems insight, practical tools and new perspectives to put circular and biobased innovations into practice, across sectors such as textiles, construction and chemicals, and in collaboration with diverse value-chain partners.
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Navigate complexity and deliver circular impact
The transition towards a biobased and circular economy requires more than technological innovation. As a professional, you operate within complex value chains, evolving regulations and growing societal expectations. Making sustainable choices means navigating the balance between ambition, feasibility, and impact.
Here, you develop the systems insight, knowledge and practical tools needed to translate circular and biobased strategies into concrete applications, from policy and product development to new business models. This enables you to move beyond intention and create tangible, circular impact in practice.
Connecting science and practice in biobased circular systems
This learning environment operates at the intersection of science, policy and practice within the biobased and circular transition. It connects in-depth expertise on biobased resources, circular design and system innovation with the realities faced by organisations making decisions today, across sectors such as textiles, construction and chemicals.
Where circular initiatives often remain at the level of pilots or intentions, the focus here is on applicability and scaling. By combining knowledge with real-world cases, multidisciplinary perspectives and open dialogue around dilemmas, participants gain actionable pathways that work within real organisations and value chains.
The approach is interdisciplinary and evidence-based, with attention to the full system: from raw materials and technology to policy, business and behaviour. This makes it possible to translate circular ambitions into decisions that hold up in practice.
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