- From www.futurelearn.com
Upcycling: From Green Ideas to Starting a Business
- 3 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Starts on January 5, 2020
- Ends on January 25, 2020
Course details
Syllabus
- Concept of upcycling
- Upcycling approaches
- Environment and the Sustainable Development Goals
- How to set up an upcycling business
- Business ideas for upcycling
- How to get funding and marketise your products
Prerequisite
Instructors
Sara Calvo
Dr Sara Calvo is an educator, trainer and a certified social enterprise advisor that has provided consultancy services for a wide range of organisations in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Andres Morales
Andres is the co-founder of Minca Ventures Ltd, a Social Enterprise consultant, Video-ethnographer, filmmaker and Researcher and Lecturer at UNIR.
Platform
FutureLearn is a massive open online course (MOOC) learning platform founded in December 2012.
It is a company launched and wholly owned by The Open University in Milton Keynes, England. It is the first UK-led massive open online course learning platform, and as of March 2015 included 54 UK and international University partners and unlike similar platforms includes four non-university partners: the British Museum, the British Council, the British Library and the National Film and Television School.