Circular Economy - Sustainable Materials Management

Course by various universities and organizations including Lund University, Ghent University and TU Delft. Centered in circular economy, the course explains the material efficiency usage in industry in relation to decisions and strategies of workers at each state of the production process (suppliers, designers, businesses, policymakers and consumers).

It is divided into 5 modules:

• Module 1: Materials. 
• Module 2: Circular Business Models.
• Module 3: Circular Design, Innovation and Assessment. 
• Module 4: Policies and Networks. 
• Module 5: Circular Societies. 

Access: https://www.coursera.org/learn/circular-economy

Circular Economy: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Course by edX divided into 6 modules:

• Module 1: Introduction to the Circular Economy
• Module 2: Circular Systems Engineering
• Module 3: Transition Management
• Module 4: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
• Module 5: Agent Based Modelling (ABM)
• Module 6: Case 

Access: https://mooc.es/course/circular-economy-an-interdisciplinary-approach/

Introduction to Corporate Sustainability, Social Innovation and Ethics

Course of edX of 6 weeks long, dedicating from 2 to 3 hours per week. It's focused on sustainability in business in three blocks: corporate sustainability, business ethics and social innovation.

Access: https://www.edx.org/es/course/introduction-to-corporate-sustainability-social-in

Sustainability Driven Innovation

Course given by Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences thats eeks to prepare professionals to take advantage of the opportunities that sustainability can offer to projects and companies. To do this, it provides various tools and practical experience on innovation in sustainability.

More information: https://www.oercommons.org/courses/sustainability-driven-innovation-2

Access: https://roam.libraries.psu.edu/node/1310

Becoming an Agent of Sustainable Change

Course focused on training professionals to be agents of change towards sustainability in companies and projects. It contains the following modules:

• Module 1: Dissecting sustainability
• Module 2: Understanding Complexity
• Module 3: Challenging Norms and Values
• Module 4: Collaboration for Sustainable Change
• Module 5: Thinking about the Future
• Module 6: Making your plan work
• Module 7: Wrapping up: Being an Agent of Sustainable Change

Access: https://mooc.es/course/becoming-an-agent-of-sustainable-change/

Sustainability: the business perspective

This course provided by the University of Nottingham tries to explain how managers and companies are increasing their consideration towards sustainability and incorporating it into their activities. How these transitions are being carried out is explained via different case studies.

Access: https://www.oercommons.org/courses/sustainability-the-business-perspective/

Responsible Innovation: Building Tomorrow’s Responsible Firms

The Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is explained in this course through Research and Development (R&D) and processes of innovation in medium and large companies.

It is considered a key aspect of CSR and allows companies to anticipate social and environmental aspects and at the same time be able to introduce them into their design and innovation processes from the earliest stages. As a consequence, companies can see productive improvements and a better environmental and social impact.

Access: https://www.oercommons.org/courses/responsible-innovation-building-tomorrow-s-responsible-firms

Landscape Finance: Investing in Innovation for Sustainable Landscapes

 Course given by Wageningen University that explores financing sources and mechanisms, bankable projects and coordinating investments in relation to sustainability.

Access: https://mooc.es/course/landscape-finance-investing-in-innovation-for-sustainable-landscapes/

The ecological footprint of electronic products

Technique that intends to provoke reflection on the ecological (and social) deterioration that the consumerism of electronic products entails. To achieve it, it is shown the real need for what we buy and the frequency with which we renew these devices, or the importance of moderation in consumption (especially in the permanent renewal of new products ahead of time), reuse and recycling. In more general terms, this technique can also provoke reflection on the limitations of technology as the only solution to environmental problems.

The objetives are:

• Be more aware of the ecological and social impact that the consumerism of electronic products is associated with.
• Critically reflect on the limitations of new technologies as a solution to environmental problems.

Link to the course: https://tiempodeactuar.es/blog/la-huella-ecologica-de-los-productos-electronicos/

Measuring Sustainable Development - Course

Opencourse of edX launched in 2015 about the measuring of progress of sustainable development and the SDGs. Tools like SDG Index, Dashboards and databases are presented and explained in order to understand how the use of them can help to make important decisions about development policies. 

Different resources, such as videos, readings, activities and quizzes, are used in the course to facilitate learning of the objetives, which are:

• Know the value of measuring progress on the SDGs.
• Learning to apply the SDG Index and Dashboards for understanding SDG progress in the environment of the student. 
• Manage data sources and differentiate between different types of data.
• Understand the steps to construct an SDG Index.

More information: https://learning.edx.org/course/course-v1:SDGAcademyX+SDGi001+2T2020/home

Learning for Sustainability - Course

Open courseware of the University of Nottingham that searches of giving the students an holistic view of Sustainability focusing on current work and debates.

Website: https://www.oercommons.org/courses/learning-for-sustainability/view#

Introduction to Life Cycle Thinking - Couse

E-learning module inspired by and using the materials developed by the Life Cycle Initiative and is intended to provide all participants with a global perspective of life cycle approaches. The course divided into 4 blocks that gives a holistic view of Life Cycle Thinking. Life Cycle Thinking is taken into account environmental, economic and social impacts of products and processes at each stage of their life cycle and how decisions taken in one stage might impact consequences in another stage.

Website: https://www.learnlifecycle.com/courses/copy-of-introduccion-al-pensamiento-de-ciclo-de-vida