7th- 16th September 2009
NVMP – StEP E-waste Summer School 2009
The first NVMP – StEP E-waste Summer School took place from 7th – 16th September 2009. The aim of the summer school was to bring together young e-waste researchers from around the world, looking at solving the e-waste from different disciplinary perspectives
Among the main objectives of the summer school were to link the researchers to experts from industry, academia and policy makers and also to develop a sustainable, multidisciplinary network of young scholars who will function as multipliers in their respective academic and geographic areas.
The summer school started in Eindhoven, Netherlands and culminated at R’09 Congress in Davos, Switzerland where the students of the summer school conducted a workshop for delegates of the R’09 Congress on “E-waste in Developing Countries”.
The 17 participants were a highly motivated, diverse and truly international group, between them representing 17 countries of origin, study or research. During the summer school, they looked at a wide variety of issues ranging from policy, technology and economics to the social challenges of reducing e-waste.
Faculty
Ab Stevels
Sustainability Dept. Design Engineering, School of Industrial Design, Delft University of Technology
Presentations, Research Publications and Project Acquisitions
Reid Lifset
School of Forestry &
Environmental Studies, Yale University
Industrial Economy and Extended Producer Responsibility
Tobias Luger
TU-Braunschweig
Life Cycle Management
Rolf Widmer & Mathias Schleup
EMPA
Programmatic Approaches
Jaco Huisman & Federico Magalini
UNU
WEEE Recast – The Role of Environmental Research
Otmar Deubzer
UNU
Standards for EoL-Operations on e- waste: Principles, Necessities and Developments
Ruediger Kuehr
UNU
StEP Initiative
Mark Dempsey
Hewlett-Packard
WEEE Recast – The Role of Environmental Research
Study Tours
Study tours during the summer school were to the following companies, where the participants also had lectures by industry experts:
Company Name
Philips
Expert Name
Peter van der Linden
Area of Expertise
Refurbishment and re-use
Company Name
SIMS Recycling
Expert Name
Johan Zwart
Area of Expertise
E-waste dismantling, decontamination and segregation
Company Name
Umicore
Expert Name
Thierry Van Kerckhoven
Area of Expertise
Precious metal smelting
Impressions
