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Industrial Symbiosis
Module developed by ingenjör5.0

Industrial Symbiosis

Starting date: 2026-03-03
Price: 4 995 SEK ex. vat

Master building inter-firm partnerships for creating more with less.

Overview
This module focuses on opportunities, challenges, dynamics and techniques of creating symbiotic relationships with other firms that enable more value from diverse under-utilised resources (e.g. rest materials and energy, facilities and equipment, logistics elements, land, knowledge) – a practice also known as industrial symbiosis.
 
The module covers technical and non-technical development determinants and aims to increase knowledge and skills for catalysing new industrial symbiosis practices in businesses.
Time commitment

This module will take 5 weeks and approximately 20 hours to complete. Webinars are included where you engage with your educators and peers on selected topics. Make sure to mark the time for the webinars in your calendar.

The schedule
Starting date: 2026-03-03
Mars 27, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM CEST — 1st Webinar
April 10, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM CEST — 2nd Webinar
Learning objectives
Describe the main principles of industrial symbiosis and give examples of different forms of symbiotic partnerships.
Describe and and discuss diverse benefits and potential risks of industrial symbiosis.
Explain and discuss multiple technical and non-technical development determinants and their interconnections.
Apply approaches and tools to identify and assess symbiotic development opportunities for your organisation/context and develop initial action plans for their realisation.
Module structure

The module includes a mixture of self study and reflections, taking initial steps towards exploring symbiotic development potentials for your businesses, and interactions and discussions with peers and learning facilitators. Among others, learners will follow narrated presentation, take surveys, contribute to discussion forums, conduct and present work specific to their organisations, and interact with their peers and learning facilitators.

Targeted participants

Industrial practitioners with responsibilities for development and management of business operations with an interest to increase productive use of diverse resources and reduce waste and emissions.

Content
A unique module created in co-operation between academic partners
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