Training and Workshops

The Madrid Circular Economy Innovation Center (CIEC Madrid) is committed to training, innovation, experience, and knowledge as core elements of its work and as an integral part of building a circular economy ecosystem for companies and startups.
Talks on circular economy and sustainability, OpenLabs covering a variety of topics, design workshops, and specialized courses in areas such as 3D printing and entrepreneurship are part of the Center’s day-to-day activities.

For companies and professionals

Technical and circular economy workshops to apply it in your company or profession.

For job seekers

Online pathways to build skills and open up new job opportunities.

For schools and young people

FabLab workshops for children and young people to discover digital fabrication, plus training for teachers.

For everyone

Open workshops on digital fabrication and nature-based solutions.

For companies and professionals

Technical workshops, in person and online

Practical training to bring the circular economy into your company or profession: circular design, waste management, recycling and sustainable construction.

For job seekers

Online pathways on the CIEC training platform

Pathways to build skills and open up new job opportunities in the circular economy, at your own pace, with group and one-to-one sessions.

For schools and young people

Activities at the CIEC FabLab

Workshops for children and young people to discover digital fabrication, and training for teachers and trainers.

For everyone

Open workshops at the FabLab and the SBN Lab

Open workshops to learn digital fabrication and nature-based solutions.

Training Pathways

We offer training in the circular economy and entrepreneurship, with online and in-person sessions to develop innovative and sustainable solutions

Digital Tools

Develop your skills and expand your knowledge with our courses focused on the digital communication era. Train with us at CIEC Madrid and gain the tools you need for the future.

Circular Economy

We help you create business models based on circularity, sustainability, and shared capacity. Join our events and discover new opportunities for innovation and growth!

Nature-Based Solutions

Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) help address environmental and social challenges while creating value through cost savings and local job creation. Discover how we can help you implement them.

Training Pathways

CIEC offers training programs focused on the circular economy and entrepreneurship. Through competency-based and specialized pathways, participants acquire management, technology, and leadership skills. Sessions combine online and in-person training, with the aim of developing innovative and sustainable solutions. The pathways cover topics such as circular entrepreneurship, employability, and train-the-trainer programs, and are aimed at students, employees, and teachers who want to apply sustainable models in their own settings.

Digital Tools

Digital tools make collaboration and communication easier, and they are essential both for business success and for rounding out your résumé in the age of digital communication.

Circular Economy

The circular economy is closely linked to sustainability. At CIEC Madrid, we want the companies we work with, the startups we host and support, and the institutions that trust us to make the most of resources, material flows, and waste, and above all, to believe in efficiency and sustainable development as a business model.

We believe a circular model is essential for institutions and companies. We help you create business models based on renewability, reuse, repair, upgrading, shared capacity, and dematerialization. Want to learn more?

Nature-Based Solutions

At CIEC Madrid, we want to give you the tools and methods so that companies and institutions can apply nature’s principles in their actions and processes to solve urban management problems such as climate change adaptation, the management of resources and water, food security, and air and environmental quality. In an increasingly urban society, nature-based solutions are useful, cost-effective tools that add value through cost savings and local job creation.

We are a driving force for a fair and inclusive ecological transition that creates new sustainable job opportunities and, at the same time, helps reduce inequalities.

Circular Economy Applied to Architecture Pathway

This training pathway on the circular economy applied to architecture is aimed at architecture professionals and students who want to integrate sustainability principles into their projects. The workshops range from a practical introduction to the circular economy and current trends to digital fabrication for circular construction, sustainable architectural design, environmental impact assessment, and nature-based solutions. It also includes a hands-on session to apply these concepts to real projects, promoting energy efficiency and sustainability in the sector.
This pathway can be completed either through online sessions or through the up-to-date microlearning modules available on the e-learning platform.

Circular Entrepreneurship Pathway

For anyone interested in entrepreneurship and in learning the most widely used methodologies for creating new business models. It also aims to help participants broaden their perspectives and apply entrepreneurial knowledge to different fields and companies.
This training pathway provides basic knowledge of entrepreneurship that improves career prospects and opens up new job opportunities for people interested in entrepreneurial activity. It also seeks to broaden participants’ perspectives so that entrepreneurial know-how can be applied to their own fields and companies.
This pathway can be completed either through online sessions or through the up-to-date microlearning modules available on the e-learning platform.

Competency-Based Pathway

The aim of this pathway is to acquire and develop a range of core business skills, such as management skills and knowledge of finance, marketing, and communication.
It has five main blocks: Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Team Management, Project Management, Sales and Technology, and Circular Economy.
This pathway can be completed either through online sessions or through the up-to-date microlearning modules available on the e-learning platform.

Circular Economy Pathway

This pathway is aimed at both final-year university students and any worker (employed or unemployed) who wants to train in sustainability and the circular economy and strengthen their basic knowledge in these areas.
The pathway provides basic knowledge of sustainability that improves participants’ career prospects and opens up new job opportunities. It also seeks to broaden participants’ perspectives so that specific knowledge of the circular economy can be applied across any sector.
This pathway can be completed either through online sessions or through the up-to-date microlearning modules available on the e-learning platform.

Employment Forum Pathway

For final-year students at universities in the Community of Madrid that work with CIEC. The aim of the pathway is to improve employability in circular economy initiatives and to give students a better understanding of the job market they will face when they finish their university studies.
The aim of this pathway is to improve employability in circular economy initiatives and to give students a better understanding of the job market they will face when they finish their studies. The pathway thus provides basic knowledge of the reality of employment that improves participants’ career prospects and opens up new job opportunities.
This pathway can be completed either through online sessions or through the up-to-date microlearning modules available on the e-learning platform.

Accessible Circular Economy Pathway

This accessible training pathway is designed for people with intellectual disabilities (ID) and focuses on providing basic knowledge of sustainability and the circular economy. The aim is to improve participants’ job opportunities by giving them skills that can be applied across a range of sectors. The program also ensures accessibility through an inclusive approach, adapting content and activities so that they are understandable and useful for people with ID, and promoting their integration and professional development in the field of sustainability.
This pathway can be completed either through online sessions or through the up-to-date microlearning modules available on the e-learning platform.

Train-the-Trainer Pathway

Mainly for teachers in the upper years of compulsory secondary education (ESO). The pathway seeks to improve skills related to innovation and entrepreneurship and to meet teachers’ own training needs, encouraging their active participation and their knowledge of how to manage the resources available at their schools. The goal is to launch a plan to save water and energy at schools and to bring entrepreneurship into the classroom.
The training pathway seeks to improve teachers’ skills in innovation and entrepreneurship and to meet their own training needs, encouraging their active participation and their knowledge of how to manage the resources available at their schools. Specifically, it aims to launch a plan to save water and energy at schools that raises collective awareness of the importance of resources and their scarcity in the linear economy. It also aims to bring entrepreneurship into the classroom, and the program is designed to bring CIEC’s entrepreneurial ecosystem closer to schools.
This pathway can be completed either through online sessions or through the up-to-date microlearning modules available on the e-learning platform.

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