Are you a researcher, teacher, student who is interested in transdisciplinary collaborations? Every month the EWUU alliance organizes a lecture about research and education of the alliance. This lecture was organised by the institute 4 a Circular Society. (i4CS). On Thursday May 23, the i4CS hosted an online lunch & learn lecture themed “Co-Creation Living Labs for Circular Healthcare”, based around our research line Circular Safe Hospitals.

The lecture is presented by Marcel Crul (NHL Stenden), Redmer van Leeuwen (UMCU), Silke Rijcks (Erasmus MC), and hosted by Florijn Dekkers (UMCU).

This session analyzes the contribution of the healthcare sector to the climate crisis, its climate vulnerabilities and ways in which healthcare facilities can become more resilient in the face of increasingly frequent and severe weather events. It discusses the terminology needed to understand different sources of GHG emissions (e.g. scope 1) and how to act to reduce them in the healthcare sector. It also discusses existing reports and guidelines for the decarbonization of the healthcare sector that could be applied in different settings.