Field of Expertise

Design and delivery of open innovation programmes for circular economy.

Expertise

Circular Cities Asia (CCAsia) is a social enterprise with a mission to build a community that accelerates circular economy innovation. We teach young people the intersection between lean innovation and circular economy principles to help solve environmental waste challenges. We provide hands-on, experiential opportunities to design and build circular solutions and businesses.To date, 5000 students in Asia have been exposed to our programme, and we have 10 student start-ups that have been co-incubated in co-operation with our partner universities and our brilliant volunteer industry mentors. A number of students have also been supported with micro-grants to help with their circular economy ideas and research.In addition to our flagship Circular Campus Programme, we deliver train the trainer workshops for educators, circular design thinking workshops, and we design and execute open innovation programmes and competitions.