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greenCHEM’s Further Education programme aims to turn sustainability ambition into real innovation. Across three complementary courses, participants could gain the technical understanding, business perspective, and practical tools needed to identify opportunities, align stakeholders, and bring concrete challenges into collaborative innovation formats.
Whether you come from R&D, sustainability, business, or innovation roles, this programme enables you to move from “understanding green chemistry” to actively shaping solutions with partners across the ecosystem.
Course A: Green Chemistry Technologies
Designed for R&D professionals and technical leaders, this course offers a deep dive into cutting-edge green chemistry technologies and their possible applications in industrial contexts. Each course explores an in-demand topic: process redesign, scale-up challenges, and resource-efficient solutions through expert-led sessions, technology transfer cases, and (where possible) site visits. The focus is on actionable insights — what works in practice, how to evaluate alternatives, and how to integrate new technologies into existing processes.
Course B: Green Chemistry for Non-Chemists
his compact, high-impact course introduces green chemistry to non‑technical professionals and creates a shared language between technical and non‑technical teams. Tailored for roles in sustainability, management, procurement, and innovation, it explains how chemical innovation links to risk, cost, compliance, and competitiveness. Participants explore the 12 principles through practical examples and apply them in a hands-on case workshop, enabling them to contribute to sustainability and innovation decisions.
Course C: Challenge Definition & External Collaboration
This hands-on course brings together participants from different backgrounds to turn real company problems into clearly defined innovation challenges. Using structured methods and peer feedback, participants develop challenge statements that are ready for collaboration with startups, academia, and other partners. The course also introduces practical aspects of open innovation — from scoping and stakeholder alignment to managing partnerships and evaluating solutions.
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If you're interested in our further education course, have a look if there is on coming up in our events page, or contact our Further Education Manager, Irina Olivia Heinze at irina.olivia.heinze@hu-berlin.de