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Day 1 (Oct. 15ᵗʰ)
Circular Economy and Sustainable Production
Rectory of the University of Coimbra (here)
09h00 – 09h30
Opening Ceremony *
Ana Abrunhosa (President of CCDRC – Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional do Centro)
Amílcar Falcão (Rector of Universidade de Coimbra)
Teresa Mendes (President of Instituto Pedro Nunes)
Joan Prummel (Rijkswaterstaat’s representative)
09h30 – 11h00
Introducing Circular Economy *
Keynote speaker: Walter R. Stahel (Founder-Director of Institute Product-Life, Geneva)
Keynote speaker: Inês Costa (Ministry for the Environment and for the Energetic Transition)
Presentation by Gonçalo Lobo Xavier (European Economic and Social Committee)
11h00 – 11h30
Coffee break & Networking
11h30 – 13h00
Group exercise & discussion
13h00 – 14h30
Lunch
14h30 – 16h15
Sustainable Production – product design and manufacture
Keynote speaker: David Fitzsimons (Director. European Remanufacturing Council)
Keynote speaker: Fausto Freire (University of Coimbra)
Debate
Moderator: João Nunes (BLC3)
– David Fitzsimons
– Fausto Freire
16h15 – 16h30
Coffee break
16h30 – 18h00
Group exercise & discussion
20h30
Course Dinner & networking (Restaurant Loggia – here)
Day 2 (Oct. 16ᵗʰ)
Sustainable consumption
Casa das Caldeiras (Boiler House) (here)
09h00 – 11h00
Circular and Sustainable life styles
Keynote speaker: Kate Burningham (CUSP – Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity)
Keynote speaker: Teresa Franqueira (University of Aveiro)
Roundtable
Moderator: Carlos Silveira (CCDRC)
– Filipa Alves (Casa da Esquina)
– Bia Carneiro (Sustainable consumer)
– Kate Burningham
– Teresa Franqueira
11h00 – 11h30
Coffee break & Networking
11h30 -13h00
Group exercise & discussion
13h00 – 14h15
Lunch
14h15 – 16h15
Circular Procurement
Keynote speaker: Cécile van Oppen (Co-founder of Copper8, Amsterdam, NL)
Keynote speaker: Despoina Kouria (Sustainable Procurement/Programme Management Consultant, UN Environment; One Planet Network Sustainable Public Procurement Programme)
Roundtable
Moderator: Joan Prummel (Rijkswaterstaat)
– Paula Trindade (Senior Researcher at the National Laboratory of Energy and Geology)
– Cécile van Oppen
– Despoina Kouria
16h30
Social Event: Visit tour to the University of Coimbra
Day 3 (Oct. 17ᵗʰ)
Closing Products and Material Loops
Casa das Caldeiras (Boiler House) (here)
09h00 – 11h00
Closing the loops
Roundtable
Moderator: Sérgio Costa (Simbiente)
– Alexandra Aragão (University of Coimbra; Coordinator of one of the Innovation Platforms of Centro’s RIS3)
– Luísa Magalhães (Smart Waste Portugal)
– Diana Nicolau (LIPOR)
– Ricardo Rosa Pais (Bankinter)
– Lívia Tirone (Co-founder of THNK Lisbon; mentor of the REBUNDANCE initiative)
11h00 – 11h30
Coffee break & Networking
11h30 – 13h00
Assessing the territory
Keynote speaker: Leonardo Rosado (Chalmers University of Technology)
Keynote speaker: Reijo Väliharju (City of Tampere)
Debate
Moderator: Paula Trindade
– Leonardo Rosado
– Reijo Väliharju
13h00 – 14h30
Lunch
14h30 – 18h00
Group exercise & discussion
18h00
End of Day 3
Day 4 (Oct. 18ᵗʰ)
Course Conclusion
IPN (Instituto Pedro Nunes) – Building D Auditorium (here)
9h00 – 10h15
Presentation: Results from the working groups
Each working group presents the results of the exercises made during the Course
10h15 – 10h30
Delivery of Certificates and Group Photo
10h30 – 11h15
Presentation of Instituto Pedro Nunes *
11h15 – 11h45
Coffee break & Networking *
11h45 – 12h45
Course conclusion *
Presentation by Cillian Lohan (European Economic and Social Committee’s representative on the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform)
Final Conference *
Keynote speaker: Helena Freitas (University of Coimbra; Member of the Mission Board for Adaptation to Climate Change, including Societal Transformation)
12h45 – 13h00
Closing Ceremony *
13h00
Farewell Lunch
* This part of the event will be open to the general public.