8 Educating Students as Future Transition Intermediaries for Circular Ecosystems

Jean-Claude Boldrini and Donatienne Delorme

DOI: 10.4324/9781003457763-8

Abstract

Higher education institutions (HEIs) have a fundamental role to play in the education of students who will soon be responsible for meeting the socio-environmental challenges of the 21st century. In this chapter, we report on a 10-year experiment to design, test, disseminate, and evaluate a circular business model called BM3C2. We present the pedagogical uses we made of this model during workshops and graduation projects. Our goal is to prepare students to become sustainability transition intermediaries as well as reflective and committed citizens. To this end, we believe that graduation ...

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