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.
This article identifies sustainable practices that are intended to reduce food loss and waste from the value chain, highlights the importance of sustainability accounting and reporting during each stage of food preparation, production and consumption and advances a theoretical model that clearly summarises different aspects related to environmental, social and governance dimensions.
CICLO (Boosting the CIrcular eConomy skills of the EU services Labor fOrce) is an e-learning platform. It focuses on upskilling and reskilling long-term unemployed and low-skilled workers by equipping them with circular skills.
Climacy is an Erasmus+ small-scale partnership which promotes environmental education and sustainability. It equips teachers, trainers and educators with the tools to educate students about sustainability, including circularity, and ways to tackle climate change.
ecoCEO is an interactive and engaging educational game for the classroom. It increases awareness and transfers knowledge about circular economy strategies and circular business models in a hands-on and fun way. The game is web-based and does not require any prior installation. It is also free to use.
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.
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.
The research project Assessing the social impacts of circular strategies in the apparel value chain is a collaborative 4-year research project supported by the Laudes Foundation. This document presents evidence of the social impact of the circular economy in the textiles and apparel value chain in India, Spain and the Netherlands.
