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DiCE at SETAC Europe

DiCE at SETAC Europe

The SETAC Europe 26th Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Symposium, held in Gothenburg, Sweden, from October 21 to 23, 2024, brought together researchers, industry experts, and policymakers to exchange insights and advancements in LCA applications across sectors. This year’s...

DiCE Takes on the Nordics 

DiCE Takes on the Nordics 

Taking place, the morning after the 6th Nordic Conference on Sustainable Healthcare conference, our expert team delivered an interactive annual event on the future of circular healthcare.   Gathering  30 professionals from across Europe, with the guidance of Thomas...

DiCE Webinar: Data Sharing for Circular Transition in Healthcare

DiCE Webinar: Data Sharing for Circular Transition in Healthcare

How Could Digital Product Passport be Applied to Digital Health Devices? Date: 29 October 2024 Time: 14:00–15:00 CET Location: Online (Zoom) Register here Join us for a joint webinar between the Circular Economy Resource Information System (CE-RISE) and Digital Health...

Small Steps Towards the Large-Scale Pilot 

Small Steps Towards the Large-Scale Pilot 

Brought to you by Elisa Sáez and Mª José Hernández from the INTRAS Foundation  An increasing number of digital health devices are making their way into households, providing easy access to socio-health electronic products for everybody. To ensure proper reuse,...

DiCE and ECOSWEEE at E-Waste World

DiCE and ECOSWEEE at E-Waste World

DiCE joined forces with LIFE funded project, ECOSWEEE to deliver an insightful session on how to enhance small e-waste collection at E-Waste World 2024 on 26 June 2024. Expert speakers from both projects shared their experience on how one can efficiently work with...

Resilience and Digital Technology 

Resilience and Digital Technology 

Brought to you by Attila Márton, Andreas Wieland, Christiane Lehrer from Copenhagen Business School  Digital technology is arguably the most important enabler of the circular economy. Digital sensors, for instance, are necessary for tracking the movement of...

How (Digital) Nudges Shape Sustainable Behaviour

How (Digital) Nudges Shape Sustainable Behaviour

Brought to you by Hüseyin H. Keke from Ruhr-Universität Bochum  As humans, we make numerous single and complex choices every day. Our decisions are influenced either by unconscious thoughts and ideas, or by careful thinking. Our choices are neither random or neutral...

Stakeholder Roles in Co-Creation for a Circular Healthcare System

Stakeholder Roles in Co-Creation for a Circular Healthcare System

Brought to you by Sascha Vermeylen from LiCalab  Numerous innovations fail simply because the product or service does not respond to the needs of its users. To overcome this challenge, an increasing number of companies and organisations seek to involve end users...

Meet Our Advisory Board | Maarten van Rixtel

Meet Our Advisory Board | Maarten van Rixtel

Maarten van Rixtel is a former CEO of Sensire, an organisation in elderly care with a turnover of €185 million, primarily active in East Netherlands. Sensire is characterised by innovation, researching how digital thinking can form a basis for the accessibility of...

Meet Our Advisory Board | Thomas Mørch

Meet Our Advisory Board | Thomas Mørch

Thomas has spent the past decade in Scandinavia’s leading recycling company, The NG Group – now EVP and CEO of one of the portfolio companies, Zirq Solutions.  Zirq is a pioneer of circularity, having developed ground-breaking technology for recycling medical...

Meet Our Advisory Board | Bert Hartog

Meet Our Advisory Board | Bert Hartog

Bert is an experienced Digital Health and Innovation Leader. He successfully initiated and led multiple, transformational innovation projects with the goal to shape the future of clinical trials, to make trials more attractive to participants and to improve the...

Smart Collection, Its Significance and Necessity

Smart Collection, Its Significance and Necessity

Brought to you by Daniel Millet from GRIN One of the smallest DiCE partners is Norwegian circular tech start-up, GRIN. The company was founded in Oslo in 2018 based on the notion that if the world is going to reach any environmental targets, whether it’s CO2...

Why is Behavioural Science Crucial to Sustainability? 

Why is Behavioural Science Crucial to Sustainability? 

Brought to you by René Luigies from Games for Health Human beings tend to stick to daily routines and old habits. This makes them feel comfortable and secure resulting in a particular behaviour of a person or a group of persons. Behavioural science primarily seeks to...

Promoting Sustainable E-Waste Management Through Citizen Engagement

Promoting Sustainable E-Waste Management Through Citizen Engagement

Brought to you by Mª José Hernández, Rosa Almeida and Elisa Sáez from the INTRAS Foundation  Engaging end-users of digital health devices in the reverse logistics process fosters solidarity by encouraging the responsible use of health resources as well as proper...

Our First Year in Review

Our First Year in Review

The project’s first year illuminated the path to circular design in digital health devices while simultaneously pushing the boundaries of sustainability in health care. The Consortium’s efforts were driven by a shared commitment to reducing environmental impact and...

Meet Our Advisory Board | Myriam Ertz

Meet Our Advisory Board | Myriam Ertz

Myriam Ertz is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, Director of LaboNFC, and Tier-2 Canada Research Chair in Technology, Sustainability, and Society. She is a recipient of MDPI’s Social Sciences 2020 Young Investigator Award...

Meet Our Advisory Board | Daniela Pigosso

Meet Our Advisory Board | Daniela Pigosso

With over 15 years of experience in sustainability science, Daniela Pigosso is passionate about advancing the knowledge and practice of sustainable design, rebound effects and circular economy. As Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), she...

Successful workshop involving local stakeholders in Ghent

Successful workshop involving local stakeholders in Ghent

DiCE, OVAM, and Bebat joined forces ahead of the publication of “Onderzoek rond eenmalige medische apparatuur die batterijen bevat” to bring industry professionals and policymakers together for an interactive workshop and networking event at UZ Gent. Dutch speaking...

Meet Our Advisory Board | Christian Djurhuus

Meet Our Advisory Board | Christian Djurhuus

A pharma executive gone digital. Medical product development executive (medicines and tech) with 18 years of experience within global pharma, based in Europe and US. Several successful NDA, sNDAs and MAA within diabetes and cardio metabolic disorders as well as CE...

Meet Our Advisory Board | Dr. Harald Desing

Meet Our Advisory Board | Dr. Harald Desing

Dr. Harald Desing studied mechanical engineering at Technical University of Munich and tested his skills in industry and development cooperation. He finished his PhD at Empa and ETH Zürich on conditions and opportunities of a circular...

Meet Our Advisory Board | Cristina Gonzalez

Meet Our Advisory Board | Cristina Gonzalez

Cristina is a Partner at ERM with experience in change management, program & project management, facilitation and coaching as well as multi-stakeholder engagement. She supports ERM clients in large, complex sustainability journeys, energy transition projects and...

Partner Spotlight | Fundación Ecolec

Partner Spotlight | Fundación Ecolec

Fundación Ecolec is a not-for-profit organisation that manages the extended producer responsibility of producers of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) in Spain. As such, it ensures the collection and proper recovery and recycling of wastes arising for EEE,...

Second DiCE Consortium Meeting and Interactive Workshops at WRF’23 

Second DiCE Consortium Meeting and Interactive Workshops at WRF’23 

Upon invitation of World Resources Forum, DiCE partners headed to Geneva for their second presential consortium meeting and live workshops in the first week of September.  During the two-day long meeting, participants received a comprehensive update of all work...

Partner Spotlight | TU Delft

Partner Spotlight | TU Delft

TU Delft, is the oldest and largest technical university in the Netherlands aiming to make an impact for a better society. The university offers 16 bachelor's and more than 30 master's degree programs across eight faculties.  https://youtu.be/xPiqgfq7ItA We...

Partner Spotlight | World Resources Forum

Partner Spotlight | World Resources Forum

The World Resources Forum (WRF) is an international non-profit organisation mobilising concerted action to promote sustainability and fairness in the global use of natural resources. Through their multi-stakeholder conferences and projects, they strive to scale up...

Up next on our agenda: design sprints 

Up next on our agenda: design sprints 

Shortly after three successful Sustain-a-thon sessions in Belgium, Spain and Slovenia, DiCE partners (Games for Health, LiCalab, Intras, Regional Development Agency of Podravje - Maribor) have reunited to kick off the next phase: design sprints.  Following from...

Partner Spotlight | Copenhagen Business School

Partner Spotlight | Copenhagen Business School

CBS is a globally recognised business school, focusing on high-quality interdisciplinary research and education as well as addressing critical complex challenges.  https://youtu.be/esxdGjXwo8A We asked Attila Márton, Digital Ecologist and Associate Professor in...

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