PARTICIPANTS UOB – CIRCLE Project

UOB PARTICIPANTS

Daye Lee is a researcher, PhD in environmental engineering from University of Ulsan (UoU, South Korea) and Socio-Technical System from University of Technology of Troyes (UTT, France). After getting those double diploma from South Korea and France in February 2022, she has joined to CyVi group (Prof. Guido Sonneman) at the University of Bordeaux as a post-doc researcher in March 2022. She has participated in several European research projects, being Coordinator Project Manager of TripleLink. She is author of several scientific papers, and her research interests are in sustainability research towards the circular economy based on industrial ecologic tools such as material flow analysis (MFA), life cycle assessment (LCA), and input-output analysis (IOA).

Daye Lee

Ph.D

Guido Sonnemann

Ph.D

Prof. Guido Sonnemann is a full professor of CyVi group in University of Bordeaux. He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University Rovira & Virgili, Spain (2002), M.Sc. in water biology and chemistry from the University of Poitiers, France (1996), and graduated as engineer from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany (1995) with a specialisation in environmental engineering. He was UNEP Programme Officer for Innovation and Life Cycle Management. He was involved in the development of several other innovative projects in the area of integrated resource management (including also topics such as eco-labelling carbon footprinting, water footprinting and the sustainable management of industrial areas). In 2012, he started as full professor for sustainable chemistry and materials management at the University of Bordeaux, where he leads a research group on Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainable Chemistry (CyVi) in the Institute of Molecular Science (ISM). Since 2017 he has been coordinating the International Master Programme on Advanced Materials Innovative Recycling (AMIR). He is author of books, book chapters and scientific articles in life cycle approaches.

THE NAME OF ITU

One of the oldest technical universities in the world, has become identical with engineering and architecture education. ITU provides undergraduate education with 67 programs in 5 different campuses, 13 faculties, 1 conservatory, and graduate education in 7 institutes located in the center of Istanbul.

Being the architect of countless scientific and technological advances, ITU has succeeded many firsts. There are more than 400 laboratories and 17 research centers. ITU has the most ABET Accreditation in the world, with its 25 accredited engineering programs.

Students participating in the International Joint Degree Programs are entitled to double degrees by completing half of their education at partner universities in the USA. Offering double major and minor opportunities at many departments, ITU has the highest number of Erasmus exchange programs with nearly 1000 partnerships.

ITU is home to science-industry-technology with more than 2500 R&D projects carried out in ARI Teknokent. In addition, entrepreneurial students are supported with ITU Seed, also known as the “entrepreneurship ecosystem”.

The first cube satellite, the first electric minibus, the first hydrogen-powered boat, the first unmanned automobile, and the first domestic computer were manufactured at ITU. Besides, Turkey’s first television broadcast was aired from ITU, and the first university radio was founded by ITU.

ITU’s institutional history, intellectual memory and its esteemed environment builds a strong bridge from the past to the future. With its development in line with the requirements of the age, its innovative perspective and its structure that cares about establishing relations with the world; ITU is the university of yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Partners

Marta La Torre

Marta La Torre is an International Project Manager at the University of Bordeaux, with expertise in managing EU-funded projects. Quadrilingual, she fosters collaboration across diverse stakeholders and countries. Passionate about education and innovation, Marta drives impactful initiatives for a sustainable and inclusive future.

This project commits to empower new generations of professionals working in a circular transition with a socio-civic compromise. To that end, we establish the Circular & SOC Learning (CIRC.LE) Hub; a meeting point for students, professors, transdisciplinary experts, society at large, and decision-makers, working together with a circular and sociocivic compromise. In the Circular & SOC Learning Hub, students reflect on challenges by evaluating social and civic implications and become co-creators and active part of the challenge. This humanizing approach is here considered as the perfect complement to the technical skills for a true application of circularity principles. The CIRC.LE Hub creates a multi-stakeholder, participatory, democratic mutual learning and knowledge transfer platform and puts on the table complex dilemmas and “out of the box” ideas for students’ social and civic development and promoting local action and global thinking. This contributes to boosting the concept of the European Engineer. The pilot Circular & SOC Learning Hub will be promoted by the participating Universities and Associated Partners and then grow beyond this partnership.