Could infographic design be considered as an effective learning tool to understand and convey circular economy management concepts and data? As it will be explained, the answer was clear after the three workshops planned and the seven infographics developed online, via Zoom, by the Circular EELISA Community, as a part of the «Circular in Play» project supported by the European Engineering Learning Innovation and Science Alliance (EELISA) and organized between September 2022 and March 2023. The methodology applied to these workshops was the creation of several international and interdisciplinary teams, with members from partner universities:. Each of these infographic design groups consisted of one professor or researcher, one «graphic design facilitator» (an undergraduate student in a member university) and two or three interested students from the abovementioned partner universities or others beyond EELISA. The aim of each of these teams was a topic, chosen by students, and related with what they considered an important management aspect to change our economies, from linear to circular. On a selected week, following each of the three open workshops of «Circular in Play», they held 2 or 3 online meetings, to develop an original infographic design to convey the selected circular economy concepts and data. The themes of those infographics were: «The circular city», «Circular rural lifestyles», «Green technology», «Green hydrogen», «Reuse in the domestic kitchen», «Fashion reuse», and «Plastic recycling». The final designs done by those teams were adapted to different social mediums, to be disseminated through institutional and private media channels, such as EELISA websites and its participating institutions’ websites. As a result of these workshops, the students worked as a well-coordinated team and achieved a more comprehensive understanding on these issues, while the «facilitators» acquired a stronger confidence in their graphic design abilities as an important tool to transmit new ideas to society, and professors or researchers found a new effective strategy to motivate students. It is important to highlight that the participation in those workshops was voluntary and free of charge, only rewarded by what have been learned, as well as an EELISA credential and a certificate of participation. As conclusions of this innovative teaching and learning practice, we might consider that it is important to give to students a more active role in developing their own capacities, using the new technologies and media, to motivate them and to create effective changes in key issues for our future. A more precise assessment of the effectiveness of those teams’ infographics towards obtaining changes in society, not only in the university context where they were created and tested, could be tested by further research. 

Authors: Imge Akcakaya Waite,Maria Aurora Florez de la Colina,Eda Ünlü-Yücesoy, Domenico Mecca