Eco-design approach
Initiate an eco-design approach
Eco-design is an approach that aims to integrate environmental concerns into the design of a product. This approach focuses on studying the product’s life cycle in order to minimise its negative impact on the environment and reduce its ecological footprint. This training course provides an understanding of how to implement a tool-based eco-design approach, integrating all areas of the business: R&D, Marketing, Quality and Communication.
Goals
- Master the key issues and concepts of eco-design, the life cycle approach and the concepts of environmental impact
- Explain how to use eco-design as a lever for value creation
- Integrate eco-design actions and reflexes into a development process
Program
GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF ECO-DESIGN
- Reasons to accelerate: introduction to current issues
- Eco-design: definition and general principles
- Workshop on product approach and life cycle thinking
- Keys to success in eco-design
- Workshop on implementation issues
THE ECO-DESIGN APPROACH
- Workshop on integrating eco-design into product development processes: group discussion based on a case study illustrating the product or assortment development process and how eco-design is integrated into it.
VALUING ECO-DESIGN EFFORTS
- Environmental promotion: case studies and best practices in product communication.
The advantages of the training
- Training based on collective intelligence
- Alternation between demonstrative, interrogative and active methods, individually and in groups
- Summary and additional content sent to trainees at the end of the training course
Who is the training intended for?
- Managers in Marketing, Products, Environment/Quality, R&D, CSR, Production, Purchasing
- Designer
- Design Engineer …
Prerequisites
- This training course does not require any specific prerequisites.
Evaluation methods
- Pre-training self-assessment questionnaire and collection of expectations;
- Formative and summative assessments during and at the end of the training;
- Measurement of satisfaction and progress through a post-training self-assessment;
- Evaluation of the training’s impact two months later.