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...
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The Importance of Properly Recycling Medical WEEE: A Call for Circularity
Brought to you by Lorenzo Glorie Senior Recycling Coordinator at RECUPEL As medical technology evolves, the number of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) used in healthcare has grown and will continue to grow significantly. These devices, ultimately ending...
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
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...
DiCE Consortium Gathers in Maribor for Third Annual Meeting: A Productive Week of Collaboration and Innovation
Between 9 and 13 October partners from across Europe gathered to share updates and discuss the future of circularity in digital health. Hosted by the dynamic team at RRA Podravje-Maribor, the meeting was an inspiring blend of knowledge-sharing, workshops, and idea...
Join our DiCE annual event at the 6th Nordic Conference on Sustainable Healthcare!
We are delighted to invite you to the DiCE project's annual event as part of the 6th Nordic Conference on Sustainable Healthcare in Malmö, Sweden.Taking place the morning after the conference (16th October), our expert team will deliver an interactive workshop on the...
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 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
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...
Are EU Regulations Ready to Allow Circularity in Digital Healthcare Devices?
Figure 1: European countries and their regulatory status on the authorization (or not) of reprocessing of single-use medical devices. Brought to you by Sonia Valdivia, Adrien Specker from World Resources Forum and Maria Anta from the WEEE Forum Background In light of...
Implementing a Reverse Logistics Plan for Medical E-waste in Hospitals and Healthcare Centres
Brought to you by María Anta from the WEEE Forum In today's technology-driven world, electronic waste (e-waste) has emerged as a significant environmental challenge for many sectors, including the healthcare sector, which generates a significant amount of e-waste...
Circular Design in Healthcare: A Far-Fetched Dream or Impending Reality?
Image source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344924003136?via%3Dihub DiCE Report Unveils Critical Truths and Calls for Immediate Action Brought to you by Tamara Hoveling from TU Delft Amidst the forefront of cutting-edge healthcare advances,...
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
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...
Podravje Region Embraces Circular Bioeconomy Strategy for Sustainable Development
Photo by Rok Breznik Brought to you by the Regional Development Agency for Podravje - Maribor While e-waste management and the bioeconomy* may operate in different spheres, their underlying goals of promoting sustainability, resource efficiency, and innovation make...
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
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
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
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...
The Need to Include the Healthcare Pathway in Sustainability Assessments
Moving Towards More Circular and Sustainable Digital Health Devices Brought to you by Erasmo Cadena, Lieselot Boone and Naomi Muindi from Ghent University (UGENT) The use of digital health devices has increased in recent years; however, their impact on...
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
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...
Awareness Raising on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Management with E-Transformer
Brought to you by Borut Bernat from EKOSIJ Aiming to educate the Slovenian population about hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment (EEE), the negative environmental impacts of improper disposal and the benefits of recycling, ZEOS (and...
Circular Hybrid Products – Pointing to Sustainability in the Digital Age
Brought to you by Andreas Wieland, Attila Márton, Christiane Lehrer from Copenhagen Business School and Camille Rønn, Daniel Fürstenau from IT University of Copenhagen The transition to sustainability has increasingly become a focal point in various sectors,...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
How to implement circular digital solutions in Spain? The citizens know the answer!
The third sustain-a-thon of DiCE, organised by Games for Health and INTRAS Foundation took place in Valladolid, Spain on April 13th. This participatory activity, similarly, to the previous events, aimed to explore how...
Investigating how locals would handle medical e-waste in Maribor, Slovenia
If all e-waste collected in Slovenia in 2022 was loaded onto lorries, the line would stretch as far as 30 kilometres. Zeos, a non-profit organisation founded by Slovenian producers and retailers of electrical and electronic equipment, has been ringing the alarm bell...
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The bumpy road to sustainable healthcare: why is circularity so challenging for digital healthcare devices?
Well-designed health devices can save human lives. However, they also make a large contribution to the expanding quantity of global (e-)waste and thus climate change, which the WHO describes as “the biggest health threat facing humanity”. Circular strategies for these...
What does circularity of digital healthcare devices mean to medical professionals and citizens in Belgium?
On Thursday, 23 February, DiCE partners, LiCalab and Games for Health organised the first sustain-a-thon of its kind in Belgium. The event focussed on two questions: how do we reduce the impact of medical e-waste on the environment and how do we develop circular...
Launch of collaboration that aims to tackle rapidly increasing quantity of digital health waste
Launched in October 2022, the Digital Health in a Circular Economy (DiCE) project, led by Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, aims to address the issue of increasing digital health waste. It will do so by targeting every point in the lifecycle of digital health devices from...