MOOC - Conditions for the success of the circular economy

The videos in this dossier, taken from the MOOC UVED Circular Economy & Innovation, aim to provide reference elements in relation to the following question: Which actors and which conditions are needed to successfully make the transition to a circular economy?

This first poses the question of what kind of circular economy we want, before exploring the political, economic and technological dimensions of the transition. It ends with a general overview of the organisational principles to be implemented within territories to achieve this.

Under the dual scientific responsibility of Jean-Claude Lévy and Vincent Aurez, both experts at the Institut National de l’Économie Circulaire, this dossier also involves Béatrice Bellini (Université Paris Nanterre), Dominique Bourg (Université de Lausanne), Alain Geldron (Ademe) and Romain Ferrari (Fondation 2019).

(The videos are only available in French)

This course consists of 4 parts:

1 : Contextualization of the circular economy by Dominique Bourg (University of Lausanne)

• The finiteness of resources
• Earth System Boundaries (Part 1) - Climate Change and Biodiversity
• Earth System Boundaries (Part 2) - Other Global Changes
• What’s at Stake: Food Production Capacity

2 : Cadrage de l’économie circulaire by Sabine Barles (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) and François Grosse (ForCity)

• Introduction to the circular economy
• The limits of recycling versus growth
• Territorial Metabolism: Key Issues and Concepts
• Material flow analysis on the scale of France
• The nitrogen cycle in Paris

3 : Implementing the circular economy by Béatrice Bellini (Université Paris Nanterre), Sandrine Gombert-Courvoisier (ENSEGID - Bordeaux INP), Frédérique Vincent (Institut Mines Telecom) and with the participation of Vincent Aurez (Institut National de l’Économie Circulaire), Eric Buffo (SMICVAL), Eric Fromant (SEFIOR) and Alain Geldron (Ademe)

• Genesis of Industrial Ecology
• Key principles of feature-based economy-
• Responsible consumption in the circular economy
• The circular economy in action
• Industrial Symbioses and Eco-Industrial Parks: The Symbiosis of Kalundborg
• The Circular Economy as an Organizing Principle: Concrete Examples and Initiatives
• Feature saving examples
• From Household Waste Management to the Development of the Circular Economy
• Programmed obsolescence: Theory, current events, and future prospects

4 : The conditions for the success of the circular economy by Vincent Aurez and Jean-Claude Lévy (Institut National de l’Économie Circulaire), with the participation of Béatrice Bellini (Université Paris Nanterre), Dominique Bourg (Université de Lausanne), Romain Ferrari (Fondation 2019), Alain Geldron (Ademe)

• What circular economy?
• Political Agendas of the Circular Economy
• Duty of care and extended value chain for responsible management
• Disruptive Technologies and the Circular Economy-
• Issues,barriers and levers to the transition to a circular economy-
• "On the move" towards a circular economy
• Developing the circular economy in France through a succession of economic incentives and regulatory measures
• Circular economy and developing countries: the resources of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization

All of these sessions are available here