Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) (ES)

Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) is a public research university founded in 1293. UCM is the largest university in Spain, it enrolls over 80,000 students and employs 9,500 staff, with an annual budget of 500 million €. UCM offers 230 degrees and 221 doctorate programs. UCM develops international cooperation with more than 900 institutions in 77 countries.

Within CirCoCretaion the following research groups are involved:

Cellulose, Paper and Advanced Water Treatments (CPtaA) Research Group 

Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials

• Carlos Negro
• Angeles Blanco
• M Concepción Monte
• Elena de la Fuente
• Ana Balea

 

Smart Consumption Ecosystems (ECOIN) Research Group

Department of Marketing

• Carmen Abril

 

Environmental Economics and Sustainability (EAS) Research group

Department of Economic Analysis and Quantitative Economics

• Sonia Quiroga

 

Department Financial Administration and Accounting

• Alejandro Fernandez

Main task in the project:

UCM teams lead WP1 aiming at co-creating an urban circular construction ecosystem based on a series of collective intelligence workshops with stakeholders to develop a co-creative stakeholder mapping. It is also involved in WP2 in the co-design of urban circular construction initiatives (UCCI), studying the recyclability of the new bio-based products; and leads WP4 aiming at the consolidation of the operationalization of circular economy where the Theory of Change concept will be applied to the UCCI. In WP5 UCM contributes to the communication and dissemination plan including the participation of CAI CREAV UCM, a center for research and dissemination of projects and creation of audiovisual formats oriented to the society. Finally, it is also involved in WP6 including Prof Angeles Blanco as the project expert elected to contribute to the DUT Knowledge Hub.