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Circular Economy

Course
2024-2025

Admission requirements

This course is a specialisation module of the MSc Industrial Ecology (joint degree TU Delft and Leiden University).

Description

This course is a first-year elective module for the joint degree MSc Programme on Industrial Ecology. The course teaches basic concepts, methods, tools, and indicators related to the circular economy.

Course objectives

  • Knowledge of concepts and definitions related to Circular Economy

  • Insight in analytical framework for Circular Economy

  • Insight in (sense and nonsense of) metrics for Circular Economy

  • Insight in technological options for circularity

  • Insight in business models and governance options for Circular Economy

  • Ability to apply knowledge and insights in a practical case study

Timetable

In MyTimetable, you can find all course and programme schedules, allowing you to create your personal timetable. Activities for which you have enrolled via MyStudyMap will automatically appear in your timetable.

Additionally, you can easily link MyTimetable to a calendar app on your phone, and schedule changes will be automatically updated in your calendar. You can also choose to receive email notifications about schedule changes. You can enable notifications in Settings after logging in.

Questions? Watch the video, read the instructions, or contact the ISSC helpdesk.

Note: Joint Degree students from Leiden/Delft need to combine information from both the Leiden and Delft MyTimetables to see a complete schedule. This video explains how to do it.

Mode of instruction

Interactive lectures with discussions, flipped classrooms using MOOC material, case study based learning.

Assessment method

Group assignment on a case study.

Final grades are expressed by means of a figure between 1 and 10, rounded to the nearest half. The grade 5,5 cannot be granted. Grades between 5,01 and 5,49 are rounded to 5,0 and grades between 5,50 and 5,99 are rounded to 6,0.

Reading list

None

Registration

As a student, you are responsible for enrolling on time through MyStudyMap.

In this short video, you can see step-by-step how to enrol for courses in MyStudyMap.
Extensive information about the operation of MyStudyMap can be found here.
There are two enrolment periods per year:

  • Enrolment for the fall opens in July

  • Enrolment for the spring opens in December
    See this page for more information about deadlines and enrolling for courses and exams.

Note:

  • It is mandatory to enrol for all activities of a course that you are going to follow.

  • Your enrolment is only complete when you submit your course planning in the ‘Ready for enrolment’ tab by clicking ‘Send’.

  • Not being enrolled for an exam/resit means that you are not allowed to participate in the exam/resit.

Contact

Remarks

MSc Industrial Ecology students can register for the course and exam via MystudyMap. Other students need to contact the study advisors of the programme via studyadvisor-ie@cml.leidenuniv.nl

Software
Starting from the 2024/2025 academic year, the Faculty of Science will use the software distribution platform Academic Software. Through this platform, you can access the software needed for specific courses in your studies. For some software, your laptop must meet certain system requirements, which will be specified with the software. It is important to install the software before the start of the course. More information about the laptop requirements can be found on the student website.