Welcome to the minor in Circular Business Design! 

In this minor, you work on the future of sustainable business. Together, we look for ways to make the transition from a linear to a circular economy. That means: using raw materials smarter, wasting less and looking differently at production and consumption. 

Minor content

What do we do in this minor? 

You are not only a student, but also an active participant contributing to real solutions. The projects you work on are not standard school assignments, but plans that companies can really use. Think about redesigning chains, services or collaborations. 

 

Working together and innovating 

The best ideas often come from cooperation and different perspectives. In this minor, we combine your talents and perspectives to come up with innovative and sustainable solutions that are also socially and economically feasible. Using Scrum and the Design Thinking approach, we provide the company with prototypes and solutions that work in real life. 

Structure of the minor

- The minor is 15 EC and revolves around one big project. 

- You will work in the Cycle Up Hub at NHL Stenden. 

- Three times a week you have project meetings in which you share knowledge and work together on business cases. 

- We invite experts, organise workshops and excursions, and you do your own field research at companies. 

- You organise your own project. 

 

Learning and growing 

We do not work with a fixed list of books. You look for the sources you need yourself. In addition, we pay a lot of attention to your personal and professional growth. In coaching sessions, we look at how you work together, how you develop and how you learn.  

Particularities

The minor Circular Business Design 2 is offered twice a year, in period 2 and 4. It can be combined with Circular Business Design 1 which is offered in period 1 and 3. 

This minor is developed as a retail management specialization, but is relevant for all study programs. The minor is open to all students. The more disciplines in the minor, the better it is. Working in multidisciplinary and international teams adds so much value to the projects and the minor. The minor creates knowledge and awareness, insight and in depth understanding of circularity. It opens a network of people, organizations and businesses with ambitions in the field of circularity and sustainability. And it opens the eyes for the challenges we are facing and creates responsibility of each of us.

Design Challenge and Intervention Plan

Process Assessment