Designing an assessment methodology and tool for circular economy academic projects
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Data publicació2021
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Abstract
This project responds to the research question of how to evaluate circular economy projects in the academic context. For this purpose, it takes two programs, Recircula Challenge and Circular Economic Awards, of the HUB Recircula of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) as case studies. The development of the project follows the Action-Research methodology. For its process, the Recircula HUB organisation, the participants of the competition, and the jury of the Recircula Challenge program were involved. The project methodology is divided into three cycles; the first cycle defines the problem; for that end, it analyses different circular economy evaluation methodologies currently used in organisations and companies and defines the requirements to be met by the evaluation tool of the program. The second cycle codesigns the tools and develops the circular economy evaluation methodology using templates and rubrics created ad-hoc for each program. The third cycle evaluates and reflects on the tools and the implementation process by analysing consistency and validity. Finally, the project shows the two tools developed in this project consisted of templates for the participants and evaluation rubrics for the jury members. It concludes by pointing out the importance of learning and awareness-raising resources for university students and its potential to improve circular economy in higher education. Moreover, the results of the work show that environmental impacts are the most difficult to understand and the least adequate to evaluate. Therefore, it is necessary to deepen and reinforce this aspect among students and participants of the programs through workshops, working examples, and reviewing the criteria established for its evaluation. To this end, it is very important to achieve a common understanding of the designed tool and its concepts. To conclude, at present, Circular Economy projects are at the forefront of Sustainable Development; this work seeks to generate greater awareness and appreciation in academia by introducing the concepts and methods to measure such projects' results
CitacióAsua, J.; Segalas, J.; Valderrama, C. Designing an assessment methodology and tool for circular economy academic projects. A: European Roundtable for Sustainable Consumption and Production. "Proceedings of the 20th European roundtable on sustainable consumption and production: Graz, Austria: September 8-10, 2021". 2021, p. 43-58. ISBN 978-3-85125-842-4.
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