Environmental and Technical Cycles

Course description

Learning outcomes and content:

Environmental Cycles & Sustainable Bioeconomy Students will learn about

• critical Earth cycles and their impacts
• circular bioeconomy principles in action
• different technologies for circular bioeconomy
• the measurements used for sustainable development

Technical cycles Students will learn about

• principles of a circular economy for technical materials
• policies and regulations driving development in key industries
• principles for circular business development
• circular and ecological design methodologies

Climate change Students will learn about

• the history and reality of climate change-its impact on human systems
• climate change theory and climate science
• climate change as a sustainable development challenge
• knowledge and institutions for mitigating and adapting to climate change

Assessment criteria

Approved/Failed

Course way of working and time table

Time- and location-independent online implementation. Students get to freely go through the material while the course is available. Students must complete all of the course sections and the exams.

Course additional info

This course is designed in a way, that you don’t need a background in SSE, in order to pass the course. However, this is the 2nd part of our goLAB course series, and we recommend that you complete parts 1

Part 1: AT00DC20-3001 Principles of Sustainability and Circular Economy

Course enrolment info

Students of the other UAS (Degree students and Open Studies’ path students):

Enroll for the course in your home university’s Peppi/PAKKI via cross-institutional studies(RIPA).

For more information, please check your own university’s intranet or contact your student office.

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Others/Open UAS students: Enroll via Avoin AMK ilmoittautuminen/Open UAS Enrolment.