Circular Business Models: Doing more, with less, for longer
95 EUR + VAT (if applicable)
This course highlights the main Circular Business Models (CBMs) enabling the transition to a Circular Economy and their role in increasing the performance and sustainability of organizations.
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Circular Business Models: Doing more, with less, for longer
Course Overview
Circular business models (CBMs) can help slow, narrow, and even close resource loops as we transition from value chain thinking to a value cycle mindset.
When set up properly, CBMs:
- Help to lower costs
- Reduce emissions
- Reduce resource consumption
- Increase value
- Build deeper relationships between providers and users
- Create new value-accreting partnerships with suppliers and stakeholders
Besides superior performance, CBMs help:
- Create new jobs
- Promote innovation in industry and services
- Embed clean energy further into the economy
- Dematerialize many parts of the economy
- Make cities and communities more sustainable
- Promote responsible consumption and production
Overall, this course offers a look into three types of circular business models, highlighting their features, benefits and the impact they have on the Circular Economy, our lives, and our future.
Important Details
Downloadable material
100% online courses
Study at your own pace
Special Access to events, research and news
What are the Learning Outcomes?
What You Will Learn
Understanding circular business models (CBMs)
In this course, you’ll learn how circular business models (CBMs) can be developed for all industries and organizations, big and small and crucial for the circular transition.
Three types of CBMs
- Slowing resource loops (Maintenance & Repair, Reuse, Sharing)
- Narrowing resource loops (Refurbishing, Remanufacturing, Product-as-a-Service)
- Closing resource loops (Industrial Symbiosis, Upcycling, Recycling)
Explore how CBMs are key to designing out waste and regenerating our planet.
How CBMs work
CBMs tend to fall under one or a combination of three strategic approaches to increasing circularity.
- Retaining product ownership means we speak more about users than ownership
- Extending product lifecycles such that assets are used longer and more intensively while avoiding the extraction of virgin raw materials
- Implementing design-for-X principles such that products are engineered to last longer and be easier to repair, maintain, disassemble, upgrade, return and recycle.
The impact of CBMs
The role of remanufacturing
Explore now how remanufacturing is not only great for the planet but also a highly efficient and profitable business model.
The role of refurbishing
With the explosion of electronic gadgets in modern living, refurbishment offers consumers the option to buy “like new” and reconditioned products at a more accessible price. Discover why this is a highly profitable CBM.
The process of closing resource flows
Explore how CBMs help to close resource flows by “closing the loop” so there is no waste in the ecosystem, just like in nature.
Turning industrial waste into raw materials
Discover how Industrial symbiosis is a CBM in which one company’s waste becomes another company’s raw materials. This often requires matching companies from different industries, for example, a shoe manufacturer that uses the rubber from a tire manufacturer for its’ shoes.
Important Details
Enrollment Information
Once you have enrolled, you will be given access to our Learning Management System.
You will be guided through the original content of the course with dynamic, rich, enjoyable, narrated, and easy-to-understand content.
- The course is divided into easily navigated sections.
- Each section is followed by non-graded “knowledge check questions” to help you ensure that you successfully assimilated the content.
- You can go back and view the content as often as you like.
When you reach the end of the course, you will be awarded the Certificate of Completion.
“Education is the key to change. Getting certified in the Circular Economy is the first step to being the change you want to see, and that we need in the world. It is a way of stating to the world that “I am serious about changing the way we do things and I’m willing to align my words with my deeds.” When you do that, you can be sure others will follow you and that you will start your own movement.”
How You Will Learn
Interactive training sessions
Knowledge check questions
Case studies / Best practices
Unique learning platform with Mobile Access
Exposure to a network of experts
Be part of a community
Explore cutting edge research
Exposure to a network of experts
Be part of a community
Explore cutting edge research
Are you a business or an organization? Contact us for team training offerings
Are you a business or an organization? Contact us for team training offerings
What Our Certified Professionals Say
“The Certified Circular Economy Specialist certificate offered by CEA is a "must" for all professionals who wish to explore this field. It provides not only the basic theory but also tonnes of industry examples that can easily fill up your knowledge gap.”
Ka Hing Hui
Production Manager, Viva Healthcare Packaging (HK) Ltd.
“Getting certified at the Circular Economy Alliance will give you an advantage in your field of business, a boost in your ability to think creatively and, most importantly: the ability to think holistically.”
Raphael Schranz
Circular Economy Consultant
“The journey was thought-provoking and insightful. With a career in the renewable energy market, the fundamentals of the Circular Economy support our cause for a cleaner, greener energy transition.”
William Van Wyk
Country Manager - South Africa, FIMER
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This Course in a Bundle
Circular Economy Specialist (High-Mastery)
Gain highly- specialized insights to drive industry change, advance your career and become a renowned expert in your field.
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Total dedicated effort required: 45 hours *
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Gain expertise that goes beyond the basics to offer in-depth knowledge of circular economy principles and applications.
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Total dedicated effort required: 30 hours *
Circular Economy Professionals (Foundational)
Get an in-depth, comprehensive overview of foundational Circular Economy principles to get familiar with industry concepts.
385.00 € + VAT (if applicable)
4 courses
Total dedicated effort required: 16 hours *
Circular Economy Specialist (High-Mastery)
Gain highly- specialized insights to drive industry change, advance your career and become a renowned expert in your field.
1,085.00 € + VAT (if applicable)
12 courses
Total dedicated effort required: 45 hours *
Circular Economy Manager (Advanced)
Gain expertise that goes beyond the basics to offer in-depth knowledge of circular economy principles and applications.
745.00 € + VAT (if applicable)
8 courses
Total dedicated effort required: 30 hours *
Circular Economy Professionals (Foundational)
Get an in-depth, comprehensive overview of foundational Circular Economy principles to get familiar with industry concepts.
385.00 € + VAT (if applicable)
4 courses
Total dedicated effort required: 16 hours *
* Depending on the level of experience and pace the learner is willing to invest in the learning journey.
