Internal Seminar 2025
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Circular Economy Certificate
Innovations for a Circular Economy
Our Objectives
1️⃣ Understand the Circular Economy and Master Its Transformative Concepts
2️⃣ Identify and Design New Business Models Based on Circularity Approaches
3️⃣ Engage Partners in the Circular Economy and Drive Organizational Transformation
The Program
Module 1 📚
Understand the circular economy and master its transformative concepts
➢ The circular economy, an essential concept that has become incontournable
Define the key concepts of the circular economy, structure the existing and upcoming regulatory framework and public policies, and explore international approaches. Workshop: Circular Economy Fresco and seminar on key concepts and the regulatory framework of the circular economy.
➢ Resource constraints and sufficiency
Understand the various constraints (physical reserves, accessibility, economic limits) and dependencies related to natural resources, and develop knowledge and understanding of the concept of sufficiency. Resource constraints and technological implications (stocks, reserves, availability, primary and secondary resources, dependency), and seminar on sufficiency – key concepts and questions
Module 2 📚
Design a Circular Model
➢ The life cycle of products and the levers for reducing impacts
Understand Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and identify levers for reducing environmental impacts and dependencies. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and its implementation within companies, as well as case studies on extending product lifetimes through repairability, reuse, and the functional economy
➢ Reuse and Recycling of Electrical Equipment: Technical, Regulatory, and Environmental Challenges
Understand reuse and recycling and the multiple technical, social, and acceptability issues (repairability, recyclability, skills, territorial organization, value distribution). Visit to a recycling facility and a refurbishment site
➢ New Business Models
Develop a new approach to value, understand new business models, and discover new management and accounting tools. New business models with examples, along with lectures and case studies on new management and accounting tools
Module 3 📚
Engage Partners in the Circular Economy
➢ New Business Models and Practical Tools
Appropriate different innovative business models by exploring how they are effectively implemented by organizations. Conference / roundtable with actors from large companies, SMEs, and startups that have transformed their business models—sharing feedback and best practices. Illustration of approaches and tools used to demonstrate value and meet objectives (metrics, indicators, value calculation), tailored to internal and external stakeholders
➢ Convince, build, steer, and transform with stakeholders
Discover how to engage internal and external stakeholders and share experiences and best practices. Case studies: convincing top management and financial departments, convincing suppliers and procurement teams, building territorial industrial ecosystems, and managing customer expectations (taking them into account and guiding them)
➢How to project your activity into the future? A serious game exercise
Learning objectives: to think about one’s activity in the future, understand and become aware of the implications for one’s organization, and co-build solutions. Based on plausible scenarios, participants will generate innovative circular solutions through a design fiction exercise
➢ Certification
Each participant will propose a concrete project to apply the program’s teachings, developing reflection on key issues within their own company (or potentially a partner organization). This involves the effective implementation of the skills acquired throughout the program to address a real-world problem, grounded in an actual business or organizational context.
🔷 Target Audience and Prerequisites
- SME and mid-sized company executives
- CSR managers, sustainable development directors
- Production directors, operations directors
- Legal directors, financial directors
- Innovation directors
- Marketing directors
Prerequisites: none
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis based on an application file including a CV and a cover letter of intent to be sent to the following address: executive.education@minesparis.psl.eu.
Application deadline (CV + cover letter of intent): February 16, 2025.
🔷 Pedagogical Organization
- A unique learning experience: in-person training delivered in Paris at the École des Mines de Paris (Latin Quarter)
- A limited cohort of 20 participants to encourage interaction with instructors and peer-to-peer learning
- Duration of 8 days + 1 certification day, organized at a rate of one day per week on Thursdays
🔷 Teaching Method and Format
🔷 Assessment Methods
Participants in this certificate program are assessed as follows:
- Completion of an applied project in the form of a written report (50% of the final grade)
- Oral defense of the applied project (50% of the final grade)
The Certificate is awarded upon achieving an average score of 10/20 across these two assessments (written report + oral defense)
🔷 Certification Outcome of the Program
Executive Certificate in “Circular Economy” awarded by Mines Paris – PSL Executive Education and Dauphine – PSL Executive Education.
The program leads to the certification of the competency block RNCP34196BC05 – “Raise awareness and support all stakeholders in the search for and implementation of effective and innovative solutions for sustainable development” as part of the certification “Expert in Environment and Sustainable Development (MS)” delivered by Mines Paris – PSL and registered in the French National Directory of Professional Certifications (France Compétences) under reference RNCP39578BC05 (valid until 01/10/2029).
100% of participants in the 2024 cohort who took the certification exam obtained their Certificate. Participants from the 2024 cohort who responded to the satisfaction survey (92% response rate) awarded the program a rating of 4.36/5.
Academic Directors and Lecturers
Franck Aggeri
University Professor – Mines Paris – PSL
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