ECSI

CEIS (Circular Economy and Industrial Sustainability) is a dynamic research group that works closely with industries, business associations and public organisations of the Basque Country, Spain and Europe to facilitate a sustainable energy transition and circular economy deployment. The main goal of the CEIS research group is to help industries to increase resource efficiency, reduce environmental impacts and improve the economic and social performance. We believe that generating net positive impacts is the only way to deploy truly circular and sustainable industrial systems. For this reason, we integrate life cycle thinking and multidisciplinary perspectives into our research projects to ensure we are addressing sustainability challenges from a system-level approach. Accordingly, the research group integrates experts from the fields of industrial product design, industrial organisation and production, environmental engineering, corporate social responsibility, and innovation and business management. Thus, we can address the whole innovation cycle of the industrial projects, from the product and technology ideation and/or conceptualization, to the experimentation, piloting, and upscaling, including the development of new industrial business models and value chains. Always from a circular and a sustainable perspective to drive positive change towards more resource efficient, low-carbon and, ultimately, sustainable production and consumption systems. More specifically, the research group works on four major lines of research and innovation.