NEWS and pictures
Save the Date: 18 June 2013 IE Network Event
This event provides an excellent opportunity for all MSc Industrial Ecologists (students, alumni and teachers) to meet, mingle and get inspired! The program will contain topics such as Elevator Pitches of graduation theses, Alumni-student network activities, exchange of job experiences and wining and dining.
Registration: This event is open for all Leiden-Delft MSc Industrial Ecologists (current students, alumni, teachers, and accepted students who will start in September 2013)
If you want to attend this event, please send an e-mail with your name, address and current position to Rianne de Bree debree@cml.leidenuniv.nl
Top Lecture: Mountains and Oceans – the new Shell scenarios
In March Shell launched a new set of scenarios that consider broad societal trends and their impact on energy supply and demand, out till 2060. Shell has a tradition of scenario-based business planning going back to the 1970s and has used these to engage in public debate. Gert Jan Kramer, who as Manager Energy Futures at Shell was closely involved with the scenario development, will present these new scenarios and discuss them with the audience.
Date and time: May 7th 2013, 1300 – 1430 hours
Venue: CML, room F104 / 106
Spring 2013 calender information events
The world is at a turning point and industrial ecologists are needed now more than ever to tackle the challenge of providing a sustainable future for 9 billion people in 2050. Are you up for the job?
Join our upcoming events in April and March 2013 and find out!
Master event TU Delft Thursday 25 April
IE Experience lectures various dates
AGENTS OF CHANGE
Diploma ceremony at 29 March, 2012
Eight students of the master’s programme Industrial Ecology have received their diploma at 29 March 2012. And, again, it was clear that the field of Industrial Ecology is very broad and that Industrial Ecology students are facing big problems.
But Industrial Ecology students like to be challenged. They have done research all over the world: in The Netherlands, Hungary, Antarctica, and Africa. They like to do research that can lead to improvements, to changes that create a better world. Or as, Alexander Vollebregt, one of the supervisors said: You are Agents of Change.
And that is correct, all students ended their thesis with recommendations for change:
- How the mainstream of consumers can be engaged in the adaptation of less resource intensive food consumption habits.
- How the waste in Tamale (Ghana) can be transformed from an environmental threat into a resource for the local economy.
- How the recycling process of Rare Earth Elements can be improved.
- How social (hygienic) and environmental circumstances can be changed by implementing proper water supply and treatment interventions.
- That natural and man-made systems are part of the same planet Earth, and how these can be simulated and studied.
- How to tender the development of a sustainable “Street of the future”.
- How a Roma community in Hungary can implement a Sustainable Livelihood by Small-scale biomass briquette production.
- And also very important: how the academic education of the master’s programme Industrial Ecology can be improved.
We are very proud to have delivered eight new masters of science in Industrial Ecology. Eight unique enthusiastic AGENTS OF CHANGE.
Two mastertheses awarded
The Stans Prize is a yearly student incentive award for the best thesis, article or report produced by a CML student. Ingrid Odegard has won this prize for her research on The Future of Food - Scenarios and the Effects on Resource Use in Agriculture. Leidse Universitaire Scriptieprijs 2010-2011 has been awarded to Sarah Herms for her master thesis on Exergy Flows in Product Life Cycles - Analyzing thermodynamic improvement potential of cardboard life cycles.
First diploma Industrial Ecology!
At Thursday 31 March the first two diploma’s Industrial Ecology have been handed out to Elias de Valk and Gerald Wegh. During the last 6 years Industrial Ecology was offered as a specialisation of Chemistry. Since 1 February 2011, Industrial Ecology has become a full master’s programme with its own DIPLOMA.
At the picture: diploma ceremony 29 September, 2011. Sarah Herms received her diploma Cum Laude (with distinction).
Pictures of diploma ceremonies 2010 - 2012 (Email: ie@leidendelft.nl; Wachtwoord: industrialecology)
