Circular Economy for Business & Engineers with SDG Focus (Summer School)

Students must be enrolled in an engineering, social science or business bachelor’s degree program or the equivalent and have have passed no less than 70 ECTS on their bachelor or bachelor of engineering programme.

The students gain knowledge about:

• Importance of the circular economy principles applied to supply chain management context ( ie, procurement, manufacturing, logistics and warehousing)
• The SDG framework and it’s contribution to improve the value creation in business and supply chain context
• Implementation of the circular economy principles in companies through the SDG framework
• CE-specific tools, strategies and technologies that can contribute to create a more efficient production system
• Impact of digitalization in the supply chain functions that promotes circularity and SDG attainment

After attending the course, the students possess skills to:

• Analyze the strategic challenges faced by modern organizations in today’s global business environment towards CE implementation
• Analyze the enablers that promote the CE implementation in global supply chain contexts
• Analyze challenges in a systematic way related to circular economy and SDGs
• Identify specific actions/practices to support supply chains in the implementation of circular economy and SDGs attainment
• Analyze specific tools, strategies and technologies in procurement, production/manufacturing, logistics and warehouse activities to create a more efficient production system
• Be able to design businesses that create value through the implementation of CE related practices
• How businesses can create value by 6R / 9R practices (reduce, reuse, recycle, recover, redesign and remanufacture) 
• How business can create value by implementing closed loop supply chains and reversed logistics

The students develop competencies about:

• Develop an ability to take decisions that create economic, environmental and social value to the business on both local and global contexts
• Handling CE specific tools and strategies to promote sustainable competitive advantage for the businesses
• Able to connect to the SDG framework by addressing the CE among the business and supply chain contexts

Lectures, case-based teaching, group exercises on class based on theories learned, and industrial visits.

Time of classes: Two weeks in August.

Enrolment is limited to 40 students. If more applicants than places, applicants who meet the mandatory requirements are prioritized according to the below selection criteria:

1. Engineering students from GMM who need this specific summer course or 5 ECTS electives in order to graduate    
2. Engineering students from GMM (except the above)  
3. Other students from SDU-TEK, SDU-NAT or SDU-SAMF with preapproval of credit transfer
4. Other students from SDU with preapproval of credit transfer

Note: If further selection criteria are needed this will be based on a first-come-first-served basis.

Students from the master Program in Operations Management are not allowed to register for the summer school.

Please note that registration for this elective course is binding. However, we recommend you apply for de-registration of Summer School courses if you do not pass your exams in June, leaving you to register for re-exams in August. Apply by filling out the form “Application of Exemption from the Deadline for Registration or De-registration for Courses” here: https://spoc.sdu.dk/form/4153/view.

If you need to pass mandatory subjects from the 5th semester of your bachelor's programme, you cannot register for the summer course as a master's elective, as you can only take master's electives once your bachelor's degree has been completed.

Students who have taken this course as part of their bachelor’s degree are not allowed to register for the course as part of their master’s degree.