Here you can find recommendations for workshops to include in your programs to support entrepreneurs develop circular products and business models.

These aren’t detailed session plans but summaries, along with signposts to existing resources from in and outside the Impact Hub Network which you can use for inspiration to kick start the development of your own Circular Economy-focused workshops.

Workshops

Develop a Circular Mindset

Activate your cohort’s circular journey by facilitating personal reflection, situation mapping, trend spotting and intention setting.

Resources: Oleku’s Activating Circular Realites, from Impact Hub Donostia.

Circularize Everyday Products

Challenge participants to take an everyday product and redesign it through a Circular Economy lens, using a systems thinking approach.

Resources: Circular Design Case for pre/early stage ventures, or Circular Strategies Workshop for later stage Start-up/Growth ventures from The Circular Design Guide.

Circular Business Models

Develop or redefine business models from a circular design perspective, choosing to implement circular strategies and principles

Resources: Masterclass, templates and resources from Jan Konietzko.

Service Flip

Support Growth stage ventures shift from selling a product to turning that product into a service, thereby developing a more circular business model.

Resources: Service Flip Canvas from The Circular Design Guide.

Circularity Check

One-to-one and/or group support to measure the circularity status of ventures and develop a circularity roadmap.

Resources: Circularity Check Workbook developed by Accelerate2030 as part of the Impact Hub Circularity Program.

Circular Collaboration

Bring together people from different companies in a value chain to explore how they can leverage each other's strengths for a circular solution.

Resources: Circular Joint Venture Design Workshop from The Circular Design Guide.

Relationship and Ecosystem Building

Support ventures to map their own ecosystem and establish successful collaborations for realising circular products.

Resources: Tools for Systems Thinkers from Leyla Acaroglu, and Ecosystem Map from Service Design Tools.

Tools & Resources

Tools & Resources for ESOs.

Diagnostic Tool

Ecosystem Mapping Tool