As one of the large public procurement areas, healthcare can play a significant role in driving forwards the green transition in Denmark, by creating demand for sustainable and circular products.
This project uses interdisciplinary approaches to first establish options and eventually measure the effects of region-wide implementation of circular economy approaches within the region’s healthcare system.
The project aims to deliver a procurement strategy based on circularity principles which can prioritize, among other, products with longer lifetimes, leasing and repair and upgrade options.
Applicant team
- PhD main supervisor: Morten Birkved, Professor MSO, SDU Life Cycle Engineering, Department of Green Technology, Faculty of Engineering. morb@igt.sdu.dk
- PhD co-supervisor: Søren Tollestrup Askegaard, Professor, Consumption, Culture and Commerce (CCC) and Center for Humans, Health and Technology, Department of Business and Management, Faculty of Business and Social Sciences. aske@sam.sdu.dk
Project team
- PhD student Ofir Eriksen, ofe@igt.sdu.dk
- Ciprian Cimpan, Associate Professor, SDU Life Cycle Engineering, Department of Green Technology, Faculty of Engineering. cic@igt.sdu.dk
- Kristian Kidholm, Professor, Head of research, CIMT – Center for Innovative Medical Technology, OUH/SDU. kkidholm@health.sdu.dk
- Elena Shulzhenko, Assistant Professor, Management of People (MAP), Department of Business and Management, Faculty of Business and Social Sciences. elena@sam.sdu.dk