Knowledge Alliance on Product-Service Development towards Circular Economy and Sustainability in Higher Education

01.01.2017 - 31.12.2019
Education and academia management project

KATCH_e focuses on the potentials of a circular economy and tries to tackle the challenge of co-creating and producing ¿utility¿ in which the possible services and performance, safety, collection, recycling and end-of-life possibilities are taken into account. In detail it focuses on the construction and furniture sector. It brings together universities, research centers and companies to cooperate in the following fields:

  • Analysis of training needs, state of the art, trends and policies on design for CE and sustainability;
  • Setting up a stakeholders network to support the transfer of knowledge and help secure the activities after the funded period;
  • Development and testing an innovative, problem-based multidisciplinary Course, a MOOC and product-service development tools for CE and sustainability;
  • Implementation of the above in academic and company contexts, creating show cases.

KATCH_e will thus contribute to the innovation of the higher education system and influence business strategies and the development of new products and services that follow circularity and sustainability principles.

People

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Grant funds

  • European Commission (EU) Action Knowledge Alliances Programme ERASMUS+ European Commission Call identifier EAC/04/2015 Application number 575793-EPP-1-2016-1-PT-EPPKA2-KA

Research focus

  • Beyond TUW-research focus: 100%

Keywords

GermanEnglish
Kreislaufwirtschaft, Nachhaltigkeit, Ecodesign, design, ecodesign, Geschäftsmodelle, Ökobilanzcircular economy, sustainability, design, ecodesign, LCA, Business models

External partner

  • ITC - Instituto de Tecnología Cerámica
  • LNEG - Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia
  • Aalborg University Copenhagen

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