First PolyCE Academy

The PolyCE Academy events aim to reach university students from industrial design, chemistry, mechanical and environmental engineering programs, presenting concepts of circularity and sustainability. In total, four PolyCE Academies are planned, involving different universities.

The first PolyCE Academy took place on 5 April 2019 at Ghent University. During this event, collaborators from Ghent University, Fraunhofer IZM, Ecodom, and KU Leuven presented different topics addressing the circular economy concept, treatment of electrical-electronic equipment waste (WEEE), recycling operations of WEEE, design guidelines for circular economy, collection methodologies for WEEE materials, plastics recycling policy, industrial examples, and advanced processing operations in plastics recycling.

Over 60 students attended the first PolyCE Academy, providing an excellent opportunity in disseminating the circularity concept and preliminary results of the PolyCE Project. The next PolyCE Academy is planned to be held at Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin) in 2020.