From 10th till 16th March hosts students and university lecturers have gathered in Liepaja University from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland with an aim to participate in the project of circular economy.
In the project Latvia is represented by the students of Liepaja University and Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences study programmes “Ecotechnologies” and “Management and Engineering of environment and renewable resources”. Project coordinator in Liepaja University, the docent Lilita Ābele explains: “The circular economy includes action in such fields as plastic, food waste, building, critical raw materials, production and mining waste. Circular economy is meant for entrepreneurs which produce, so has an influence on the environment. The researchers of circular economy work, in order that entrepreneurs could produce and earn with less pressure on the environment.”
Therefore this time in the practical part of the project students and lecturers cooperate with an enterprise “Liepājas papīrs” (Liepaja paper), where during the production process the paper and glue waste are originating, which are not possible to recycle with the total paper mass. Project participants will get to know the enterprise, production process, will ask necessary questions and in the end of the project will present their results to the concrete enterprise on how to act according to the principles of circular economy.
This project has carried out the study course “Circular economy” in the amount of 3 credit points (ECTS) that Liepaja University is implementing during this week. In Latvia there has been no experience in the implementation of such a study course, moreover the study course is interdisciplinary, because there perform not only students related to environment fields, but also the prospective engineers, computer specialists and students from social sciences.
Photos HERE.