Introduction to Resource Efficiency and Circular Production for SMEs

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Are you interested to learn more about the benefits that saving resources, such as energy, water or waste, can offer to your company – both in term of saving costs, developing new business opportunities - and enhancing your company’s environmental footprint? If so, you have found the right course to enhance your company’s resource efficiency and to implement circular production practices.
This course introduces you to the basics of the circular economy, explains the concept of “reduce, reuse, recycle” and what it means in a business context. It helps you to assess your own resource consumption, the potential to introduce circular production measures and supports you to develop the business case for specific measures to enhance your company’s resource efficiency and circular production practices. With the learnings from this course, you can formulate your company’s circularity strategy as well as an associated communication plan. Finally, the course will introduce you to the topic of green finance, with the aim to help you identify adequate sources of funding to implement resource efficiency and circular productions measures.

After completing this course, participants will be able to: