Circular economy academy ACE 2.0 in Belgrade

Title: Academy for Circular Economy for SMEs - ACE 2.0

Date: 4-5 October 2019

Partners: Serbian Chamber of Commerce, CirEkon, Climate-KIC

Description:

The Academy for Circular Economy for SMEs - ACE 2.0 was organized by entrepreneur and circular economy pioneer Milan Veselinov in collaboration with Climate KIC and the Serbian Government. It brings students, mostly coming from the private sector, to a journey through various topics, with Circular Change leading the module on Systems thinking for the Circular Economy together with the Bertlanaffy Centre for the Study of Systems Science on October 4th and 5th.

Lecturers Ladeja Godina Košir, Karin Huber-Heim and Stefan Blachfellner encouraged the students to experience first-hand what true collaboration means by using puzzles which requires a significant amount of team work. In addition to learning the basics of systems science and systems thinking approach, participants defined several working groups for the academy, as well as started to map their circular journeys.