KU Leuven is starting two new interdisciplinary postgraduate programmes on the circular economy for professionals, where students learn from both academic and industrial experts. The two programmes will be held in parallel and partly together and will start in October 2023. Courses are on site each Thursday (13:30-20:30) in either Kortrijk (2023-2024) or Leuven (2024-2025).

Enrol now in the new FOODRUS e-learning course to learn more about innovative solutions to reduce food waste!

Designed to empower individuals and communities, this online course developed by the EU-funded project FOODRUS offers valuable insights and practical strategies to tackle food waste and loss across various stages of the food value chain.

Closing the green skills gap is crucial to enabling a circular economy. Circle Academy is a gamified e-learning platform that boosts mass adoption of these skills.

The BUS-GoCircular project aimed to foster a green energy workforce in the construction sector. It was funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, and ran from September 2021 to March 2024.

The project produced a huge amount of training materials, such as the Train the Trainers’ programme guide. All of them can be consulted on the project home page.

The EU International Partnerships Academy (INTPA) is the European Commission’s free and public learning platform for development.

It offers an e-course and an introductory webinar to the circular economy that aim to strengthen your understanding of circularity, policy measures that accelerate the circular transition, and the opportunities arising for EU partner countries from the circular economy

TRANSFORM-CE, an Interreg North-West Europe funded project promoting the circular economy in Europe, is pleased to offer educational programmes for primary and secondary schools to learn about the collection, treatment and recycling of plastic waste. Through these educational programmes schools get teaching materials about plastic recycling.

RTSD introduces primary and secondary education teachers and students (from kindergarten to the 12th grade) to the 7 R’s of sustainable development (Reduce, Repair, Reuse, Reflect, Recycle, Reject and Respect). It invites them to express themselves artistically, while learning to design their own biomaterials using food waste and craft and digital fabrication techniques.

This Handbook for trainers "The circular economy applied to the construction industry" aims to provide trainers with a hands-on approach to circular economy practices in the construction sector. It does so by offering some holistic training material focusing on case studies.

The Erasmus+ project CirThink - Embedding Circular Economy Thinking in Higher Education Institutes (HEI) through University and Industry Partnerships aims to embed circular economy thinking in HEIs through cooperation between universities and industry.

There can be no doubt that a significant change in lifestyle and patterns of production and consumption is needed to cope with the various climate, energy and resource-related crises coming our way. Cittadinanzattiva promotes the circular economy by means of training, debates, awareness raising activities and the encouragement of  positive patterns of behaviour.