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CIRCLE Workshop Suite

The Circle Workshop Suite is a set of powerful training courses that offer circular knowledge. Our approach to your challenges on the road to circularity is highly customisable. The trainings we offer address key topics that are directly applicable to key stages of your circular transformation.

Which training best suits you to take the next step on your circular journey?

CIRCLE INTRODUCTION

Be inspired to engage
The Circle Intro Workshop exposes participants to the key challenges of the circular economy. This half-day programme generates a strong learning curve for participants by engaging in role play that requires innovating with circular business models and design solutions. The result is experiencing the impact of the circular economy and new ideas on participant’s own economic and ecological challenges. This highly interactive workshop inspires to take action.

WHO IS IT FOR

Professionals and organisations trying to get familiar with the circular economy.

WHAT IS IT

An introductory workshop to the circular
economy which turns circular strategies into
concrete steps for a circular future.

GROUP SIZE

80 people max.

DURATION

2.5h

WHY

By raising awareness and understanding, this
programme supports business, cities and
institutions with a common language to kickstart
a circular journey.

KEY ELEMENTS DURING WORKSHOP

Learn
about circularity through practical, applied and insightful case studies.
Explore
the breadth of challenges and opportunities of the
circular economy with your team.
Understand
what circularity means to you by thinking as a circular entrepreneur.

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We bring the circular economy to life when we apply it to everyday products.
Hatty Cooper
Director of Action & Impact

CIRCLE FINANCE

Financing the circular business model
The Circle Finance Workshop works to improve the financeability of circular business models. In order to capture the added value in products and to ensure the return of products and materials to the value chain, circular business models require increased chain collaboration and a
shift of ownership and responsibilities from consumers to producers. Due to the newness of circular business models, financing barriers are not uncommon. This workshop addresses these barriers and offers practical advice in how to overcome them.

WHO IS IT FOR

Entrepreneurs, SMEs, multinationals and financial institutions seeking to finance their circular business model.

WHAT IS IT

An effective workshop that provides businesses and financial institutions with tools and strategies to overcome circular finance barriers.

GROUP SIZE

15 people maximum

DURATION

Between a half and a full day

WHY

By creating an understanding of the challenges that can arise when financing circular business solutions, participants are enabled to overcome them for their chosen business models.

KEY ELEMENTS DURING WORKSHOP

Understand
the opportunities and barriers when looking to finance a circular business model.
Explore
insights and best practices to finance circularity based on practical case studies.
Develop
applied learnings how to integrate learnings to your own challenges.

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Tackling the bottlenecks of circular financing is crucial to transitioning to circularity.
Hilde Sijbring
Finance Programme Lead

CIRCLE DESIGN

Design for circularity
The circular economy begins with circular design thinking. Applied to products, services, business models and processes, circular design is an enabler to develop future-proof innovations. The workshop shows participants how to design for circularity and embrace the complexity of developing solutions for lifecycle values with structure and professional guidance. This programme can be customized if needed to answer the specific design questions of participants.

WHO IS IT FOR

Changemakers, working individually or within larger organisations, who seek to creatively design for the future.

WHAT IS IT

A workshop dedicated to teach and apply circular design practices.

GROUP SIZE

15 people max

DURATION

Between a half and a full day

WHY

Learn how to design for circularity by applying strategic tools and strategies in order to create concrete steps for product, service and process innovation.

KEY ELEMENTS DURING WORKSHOP

Learn
how to design in the circular economy through practical case studies and insights.
Apply
the circular innovation process and explore the circular design process for your own product.
Create
circular impact by taking tangible steps as a future circular creative professional.

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Designers play a key role in the value creation process, which affects the entire system, supply chains, consumers and product life cycles. Applying circular design enables designers to be in the driving seat of innovation.
Simone Gager
Design & Brands Programme Lead

CIRCLE Business Innovation

Create circular innovations
The Circle Business Innovation Workshop enables participants to innovate business models through circular design thinking. Its practical approach kick-starts a good understanding of the circular economy through principles and case studies. Participants apply learnings directly through industry tested methods in order to innovate their own value propositions. Future-proof strategies and business model innovations explore the impact of circular opportunities by focusing on establishing business scope, collaborations, consequences and benefits. The result is a circular, impact driven business innovation which integrates circular economy elements. This workshop is the starting point for circular ambitions becoming reality.

WHO IS IT FOR

Entrepreneurs, organisations seeking to turn circular ambitions into reality.

WHAT IS IT

An innovation workshop aimed at developing circular business models.

GROUP SIZE

24 people maximum

DURATION

One to two days

WHY

A powerful and practical approach is needed to turn circular business model innovation into action.

KEY ELEMENTS DURING WORKSHOP

Understand  
how to innovate your business model towards a circular economy by defining your circular value proposition.
Build
a circular business model and strategy that enables you to make diligent decisions for viable innovations.
Action
your roadmap towards circularity by creating a realistic plan to set up your circular business model.

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Participants become circular ambassadors because they can take action towards circularity.
Marc de Wit
Director of Strategic Alliances

CIRCLE BRANDS

Empowering brands in circularity
Created by ADCN & Circle Economy Foundation, this workshop is designed to empower consumer brands to make circular brand and business innovation a reality. Learn from circular leaders sharing their best practices, insights, experiences and tools to become the driver of a circular vision, able to envision and map a circular future for your brand.

WHO IS IT FOR

Seniors from a variety of disciplines: Marketing/Brand & Communications,  Innovation, Research & Development (R&D), Digital Media, Creative or Design Agency.

WHAT IS IT

Pioneering workshop that aims to achieve circular brand and business innovation.

GROUP SIZE

6 to 15 people

DURATION

One day

WHY

Learn how to apply design thinking methods to create a portfolio of circular brand opportunities with your team and join the growing network of circular brand pioneers.

KEY ELEMENTS DURING WORKSHOP

Understand
the business value
of circularity for
your brand.
Build
a circular business model and strategy that enables you to make diligent decisions for viable innovations.
Learn
how to leverage the potential of the circular economy for your brand and with your team and stakeholders.

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Sustainable and circular business has moved from being a risk and reputation function to being a business lever function to being an innovation function.
Hannah Jones
CSO, Nike

CIRCLE Explore Roundtables

Collaborate for circularity
This short workshop focuses on the strong potential of collaborating with like-minded organisations. Identifying the common purpose and goal of organisations to work with can lead to groundbreaking projects that make common ambitions concrete. As part of this roundtable, participants explore in a playful manner the opportunities to benefit from each other’s expertise. This setting facilitates a neutral ground to formulate an innovative goal based on circular principles. Circle Explore is an easy entry to start exploring and embracing co-innovation.

WHO IS IT FOR

Entrepreneurs, organisations seeking to turn circular ambitions into reality.

WHAT IS IT

A workshop that triggers collaboration between stakeholders, partners and industries.

GROUP SIZE

24 people maximum

DURATION

Four hours

WHY

A curated opportunity to identify ways to collaborate and meet like-minded parties to shape a common circular goal.

KEY ELEMENTS DURING WORKSHOP

Explore
the innovation process towards collaboration with partners, stakeholders on
this journey.
Identify
commonalities to
build a circular
purpose and goals
to collaborate on.
Embrace
the development process to co-innovate a circular agenda with commitment.

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The circular economy is unavoidable. Collaboration is key to make it happen.
Marc van Gerrevink
CEO, Van Gerrevink BV

Personalised Flexibility

As part of the circular innovation process, Circle Economy Foundation has developed a modular, integral approach to address the interconnected workings of the circular economy. Evolving from leading schools of thought in the area of design thinking, we offer an impact-driven, personalised approach to circularity. This creates a huge opportunity to develop your learning curve for yourself, your team, your partners and stakeholders. Workshops and training modules are increasingly available on- and offline.

CIRCLE Training-of-Trainers (ToT)

As part of the Circle Workshop Suite, our Training-of-Trainers program enables our partners to carry out professional, industry-tested trainings themselves to their clients, partners or value chain stakeholders.

TOT BENEFITS

Circular ambassadorship

Professionals enrich their circular economy expertise and skills, enabling them to facilitate change towards circularity.
Capacity building

Individual professionals can help build the capacity needed for a circular economy globally by training others.
Scalable impact

The ToT methodology is a scalable tool for individuals and organisations to continuously increase their impact and to build networks of circular partners and innovators.
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