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If you are starting your journey and activating your transformation towards a Circular Economy, this section can help you better understand how the Circulab Academy works but also how to access our courses and tools.
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To whom the courses are for?
Our online courses are for anyone who wants to learn more about the circular economy and business resilience. Consultants, managers, designers, project managers, teachers, entrepreneurs our online courses are made for you.
Is it possible to tailor the training to my company?
Our online courses can be adapted to your needs. Choose a project, define the scope and the deliverables with the tutor. Adapt the content, exercices to your industry, project and context.
Contact us here to adapt the content to your company.
How to register ? What are the requirements?
First, choose the course you want to participate in and proceed to payment. We'll get back to you by email to complete your registration.
What are the objectives of the training?
What are the requirements? How to prepare the training?
Is it necessary to have a positive impact project or challenge in mind to start the training?
No need to have a project or challenge in mind to start the training course.
How does the training work?
- You have access to the content at your own pace.
- You have access to the secured forum in the education platform to exchange with your peers and the trainer.
- You have the possibility to get personal feedbacks from the trainer, only on request, through the forum.
- You have access to video Q/A session, live and recorded if included in the training program.
- You have access to the content at your pace by following the program steps. The cohort-based programs are built to ensure that participants progress in a homogeneous way through the content.
- You must contribute to the group work (from one at two hours per week). At the beginning of the training, the participants are allocated in small groups of 5 maximum.
- You must organise your own group work time allocation within the group according to your availability.
- You do not have to organise video-conference sessions to contribute to the group work, although this is helpful to create and maintain the group dynamics.
- You should divide the tasks between each member of the group. For example, an investigation of the Value Chain will be divided between members, some will research the conception part and others the production part etc.
- You will work in group on our tools accessible on our digital platforms (Mural), no need to create an account, we provide you with the access).
- You have access to the secured forum in the education platform to exchange with your peers and the trainer.
- You have the possibility to get personal feedbacks from the trainer, only on request.
- You have access to video Q/A session, live and recorded if included in the training programme.
What are your teaching resources?
How long do I have access to the platform?
You have access to the content, the recordings of the Q/A sessions, the forum and the Mural/Miro tools for 12 months from the start date of the course
How do you obtain the certification?
You will get your certification "Catalyst" once you have completed the training and filled the feedback form.
How to access to trainees reviews?
If you want to read reviews and testimonials of our previous trainees, we recommend you to visit our Circulab page.
How can I pay for the training?
You can pay by credit card or bank transfer. Contact us if you have a question.
What if I want to stop the training?
We are confident in the quality of our courses. However, if you are not satisfied, you have a 30-day cooling off period during which we offer full refund if you are not satisfied by the course quality.
What are the Circulab tools?
- The Circular Canvas helps you rethink your business models, products, services, flow, projects to create sustainable and positive impacts.
- The Partner Map enables you to identify the stakeholders of your business ecosystem, facilitate the collaboration, create shared values while anticipating the opportunities and obstacles that may arise in your project, solutions, service, product.
- The Value Chain Canvas allows you to investigate, analyze and identify new opportunities in your value chain.
How can we use these tools ?
You can learn how to use our tools through our online courses.
Are the tools freely accessible?
Our tools are available on open access by respecting the copyright and the Creative Commons 4.0 licence.
Which languages are the tools available in?
Our free tools are available in different languages.
How useful are these tools to accelerate circular economy?
The Circulab tools allow you to analyze a context, map your impact, identify your key stakeholders and to innovate, create, design services, products, business models and busioness systems.
Thanks to our tools, you can start your transformation towards a circular and regenerative economy by considering and designing the whole business system.
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What is Circulab and the Circulab Academy ?
What is the Circulab community ?
The Circulab community is a network of 80+ certified experts located in more than 22 territories across the world. The members are independent consultants, design agencies, consulting firms, universities operating in various sectors such as supply chain, eco-design, circular economy, CSR, sustainable development, consulting, R&D, education ...
The community members are certified to use the Circulab methodology and tools to help various organizations at all steps of their projects. They cooperate in various projects, co-develop trainings and tools together aiming at scaling positive impacts across industries and geographies.
Visit this page to learn more and reach out to members of the community in your territory
How to become a Circulab community member ?