Author: Esch-R

Our third ESCH-R Podcast! A circular approach for medical devices in action: Ecodesign with Philips 🏥🌍 Join us as we explore the challenges and opportunities in transitioning healthcare towards a more circular future! In each episode, hosted by Nicole Hunfeld (ESCH-R Principal...

At the beginning of April, Maurice Kloos, a student from Hogeschool Rotterdam, and Jasper Klasen, ESCH-R PhD student, began working on an ambitious task: mapping the complete material flow within the Interventional Cardiology department. To achieve this, Maurice and Jasper are conducting a...

On the 23rd and 24th of April Ellen Bakker, WP6 lead of ESCH-R, accompanied Rienke de Jong, a nursing student from Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences and intern, in two focus group discussions with nurses, nursing students, and maternity care assistants at the Obstetrics Department of...

On Friday April 25th, Fiene Kuiper, Master Student Integrated Product Design at the TU Delft, presented her graduation project called: “Sensing a Sustainable Future”. During her graduation project Fiene has analyzed and redesigned pulse oximeters from a circularity perspective in...

Han Buck, master Industrial Design student at TU Delft, is researching how she could design a more sustainable version of the infusion bag for her master graduation project. Infusion bags are a large source of hospital waste and are currently not being recycled.  Last week, Anne Traa...

Accelerating the transition from a linear to a circular healthcare sector: ESCH-R: study design and methodology 26 March, 2025 Published in: Frontiers Planetary HealthAuthors: Jilske Huijben, Erik van Raaij, Albert Wagelmans, Laura Piscicelli, Wei-Shan Chen, Bas van...

The following symposium is being organized to mark the occasion of the inaugural lecture of prof. dr. ir. Erik van Raaij. Practical detailsDate: Wednesday June 4, 2025Time Symposium: 12.15 – 15.15 – with lunch during walk-in – Erasmus Pavilion, Campus...

March 20, 2025 The first ESCH-R Community of Practice for nurses and educators took place on Thursday 20 March, moderated by Dr. Ellen Bakker (WP6 lead). Prof. dr. Kim Verhaegh highlighted the vital and impactful role of nurses in the transition toward sustainable and circular (hospital)...

On Friday 4 April, Nicole Hunfeld (PI ESCH-R) and Erik van Raaij (Projectboard member and WP4 Lead) gave a lecture at the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (ESHPM), as part of the course Sustainable Healthcare Organisations. Erik van Raaij discussed impact analysis,...

Figure 2. The 10R-value hill in the context of the ESCH-R project. Published in: Frontiers Planetary Health Authors: Jilske Huijben, Erik van Raaij, Albert Wagelmans, Laura Piscicelli, Wei-Shan Chen, Bas van Vliet, Diederik Gommers, Dick Tibboel, Ellen Bakker, Florijn Dekkers,...

On March 4 and 5, 2025, Nicole Hunfeld, Principal Investigator (PI) for ESCH-R, presented at the CRISMA Conference and the Grand Rounds of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Department of Critical Care Medicine (UPMC). On March 4, she spoke at the CRISMA Conference on...

On February 25, 2025, ESCH-R’s project board member and Workpackage 5 leader Prof. dr. Jan Carel Diehl, together with PhD Jasper Klasen, Postdoc Ayşegül Özçelik and Ir. Jotte de Koning attended the DesHealth meeting ‘Prerequisite for Achieving Resilience in the Healthcare Systems’ in...

The ESCH-R team was invited in March by Anne Traa, Vice Director, and Winfried Lange, Key Account Manager / Global Project Manager Medical Plastics, from Wittenburg Group for an insightful visit to explore their work on circular plastic compounds used to develop products used in hospitals . How...

ESCH-R Workpackage 4 second co-creation session In a circular hospital ecosystem, what value do you bring to the table?  On Tuesday, February 11th, the second co-creation session of workpackage 4 took place at Microlab in Rotterdam. With all stakeholders in the room – ranging...