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Impact on increased knowledge and understanding as a result of the case study

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Providing public and private education and support services at any level or for any profession, and governmental and public administration services, including judicial, regulatory, and legislative activities, taxation, defence, public order and safety, immigration services, foreign affairs and the administration of government programmes

Education and Government Services

Provide guidance or professional training to educate employees to use circular economy principles

Training on the circular economy

Integrate principles of circularity into primary, secondary and tertiary curriculum and conduct workplace trainings

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The principles of a circular economy concern designing out waste, regenerating ecosystems and keeping items in use. Decoupling the economy from material flows—improving the rate of resource productivity faster than the economic growth rate—is also a consistent guide. By evolving with the growing number of applications of circular economy principles, and consolidating these strategies across thematic areas, Circle Economy’s Key Elements Framework (KE) renders the elements of the circular economy salient and serves as a basis to derive contextual strategies and interventions. 


The Framework consists of:
- Core Elements: Activities directly handling product or material flows; and uniquely,
- Enabling Elements: those that remove obstacles for core actors.


Key elements of the circular economy

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Circle Economy's framework of strategies and activities that define the circular economy

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Based on the work of [Bocken et al. (2016)](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309699661_Product_design_and_business_model_strategies_for_a_circular_economy), the Four Flows Framework serves as a simple framework for managing resource flows in a circular economy by using less (Narrow), using for longer (Slow), using again (Cycle), and using clean, regenerative materials and energy (Regenerate).

These different principles of circular economy can be applied to our socioeconomic metabolism: we can design stocks like buildings, infrastructure, machinery, and vehicles to be rich resource mines for the future, and design manufactured goods and consumables to be cycled and made regenerative. Furthermore, the focus must also centre on getting more value out of fewer materials. Achieving the aims of a circular economy—minimising material use, regenerating the Earth, and preventing material losses—can be done through these four key strategies mentioned above.

Source: Circle Economy. (2023). *[The circularity gap report 2023](https://www.circularity-gap.world/2023)* (p.22). Amsterdam: Circle Economy. 

Four Flows Framework

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  The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration with Leadership in Global Change, has hosted the first summer school for 15-18 year olds wishing to learn about the circular economy. Students learnt how the circular economy can be applied to various industries, including food, fashion, and the built environment. This culminated with the students then working in groups to design and build their own city based on circular economy principles.  The course challenged the participants to think beyond the take-make-waste model by exposing them to real-life case studies of the circular economy in practice, including the work of the London Waste and Recycling Board, and Christoper Raeburn’s fashion lab.    The creativity and enthusiasm of the students was remarkable. These young people want to find solutions to our greatest challenges and they are ready and willing to push the envelope of what’s possible.     It’s very exciting, it’s very new, we’re in a generation that’s changing, in a world that’s changing as well.     The Oxford Summer School is part of the Foundation’s efforts to engage the next generation in becoming part of the transition to a circular economy. More information about the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Schools and Colleges programmes can be found on the website.  

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We’re a charity committed to creating a circular economy, which is designed to eliminate waste and pollution, circulate products and materials (at their highest value), and regenerate nature. It’s an economic system that delivers better outcomes for people, and the environment.

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Ellen MacArthur Foundation

Leadership in Global Change

<p>Ellen MacArthur Foundation, in partnership with&nbsp;Leadership in Global Change has initiated a circular economy summer school programme in Oxford for young minds of teenagers between the age of 15-18. Students had the opportunity to learn about circularity methods applied to various industries through working on real life cases. This project is an example of how the Foundation puts a lot of importance on engaging the next generation in becoming part of the transition to a circular economy.</p>