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Circular
Innovation
At t h e F i r s t B i o i n s p i r e d C i r c u l a r
Innovation Programme 2019.
Berlin | 2019
www.BiomimicryAcademy.com
contact@BiomimicryAcademy.de
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Welcome to a
Community of
Change Makers!
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We live in times of exponential changes through technology, globalisation
and connectivity. They provide both, vast chances and challenges. To
master them, we need a new way to innovate, to reinvent ourselves and
the way we learn, live and work. To take this way, we should consider
everything around us as a teacher. And when it comes to creative prob-
lem solving, iterative innovation, sustainable growth, and cooperation on
a systemic scale, there is no better teacher than nature.
Through 3.8 bio years of evolution, life has found a way to solve nearly
any challenge we face. There is a framework and methodology to learn
from nature and weigh our solutions against time-proven principles.
At Biomimicry Academy you learn how to learn from nature. And how to
apply these learnings in the context of product or service development,
business or social entrepreneurship, organisational or personal change.
Through 5 modules and an additional hands-on training over a period of
7-12 months you will be trained by some of Europe's leading experts in
Bioinspired Circular Innovation (BCI), from Bionics through Biomimicry to
Circular Economy. BCI is both,
scientific AND practical;
creative AND directly applicable;
business-centred AND responsible.
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„ Humans are the only species in the
world that knows waste and unemployment.
Let's change that by learning from the
millions of species around us.
Dr. Arndt Pechstein
President of Biomimicry Germany e.V.
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Bioinspiration | Biomimicry | Bionics
With entire industries witnessing disruptive changes on global markets,
dramatic paradigm shifts in user behavior, and anthropogenic changes
happening world-wide a new thinking and the adoption and implement-
tation of new technologies and best practices are imperative.
Accordingly, sustainable, systemic solutions gain increasing importance
and doers from all disciplines look into the biological design principles to
solve human problems.
While biomimicry, like academy bionics, draws inspiration from nature, it
goes beyond mere extraction of knowledge. Sustainability is one of the
declared goals of the method, a necessity that cannot be ignored any
longer in society or economy. Natrual systems are inherently robust,
resilient, and in a dynamic equilibrium, optimized by evolutionary
mechanisms. Humanity is part of these systems and lives under the same
constraints of planet earth; neglect of this fact, especially in the 20th
century, led to the severe challenges we face today. Biomimicry comes with
a process to use nature‘s strategies to design human solutions and test
them against a checklist of values and principles.
Humanity
is a part
of nature
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Circular Innovation | Human-centred
design | Business Modelling
Circularity is one of the core concepts of natural systems. Circular Economy,
Circular Design or Cradle-to-Cradle® encompass this prerequisite. Integra-
ting the Biomimicry process and audit tools into those frameworks yields a
powerful solution-oriented design methodology.
While this process takes into account natural and systemic cources and
requirements, there are two additonal sides needed to make viable products
and services: Human-centred design and business modelling. Human-centred
design uses need-oriented development and market-driven innovation. It can
be used for product or service design, social innovation or systems enginee-
ring. Agile design methods are as much part of this toolbox as lean business
concepts. To bring an idea to market or to make a social innovation into a
sustainable reality, methods from business modelling and practices from
communcation to storytelling are necessary.
The resulting mixed method approach is called Bioinspired Circular
Innovation.
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Our Case Studies
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Case Study 1 | Form
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Case
CaseStudy
Study2 1
| Function
Urban Mobility Reloaded: Function over Convention
Aibus Cabin Structures Designed by Fungi
“One of three runners-up in the 2014 Audi Urban Future Award,
(…) proposed a futuristic and innovative concept for an entirely
new type of personal transport. Drawing inspiration from
sources as diverse as elevator technology and biomimicry, their
designs offer a thought-provoking alternative to our existing
transportation systems that could revolutionize the city as we
know it.”
from Arch Daily, 2. 1. 2015
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Case Study 3 | System
Organic Organisations: Multi-layer Business Ecosystem
The Hybrid Thinking methodology liases Biomimiry The universal matrix for any organism or
with human-centred business concepts organisation
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Bioinspired
Circular
Innovation
P r o f e s s i o n a l Tr a i n i n g P r o g r a m m e 2 0 1 9
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Bioinspired Circular Innovation 2019
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Bioinspired Circular Innovation 2019
BP Biomimicry Practitioner:
After finishing the BCI training you continue to become
a Biomimicry Practitioner
Training integrates with the annual Biomimicry Global
Design Challenge and the Biomimicry Institute Business
Accelerator Programme
Develop a biomimetic product or service from idea to
market mentored by a coach
Grow your understanding through a guided reflection
about process and methodology, and your practical
skills through iSites
Digitally mentored individual work (workload depends
on the participant over the course of 2-6 months)
BC Biomimicry Coach:
Biomimicry Practitioners can continue their education
with a special coaching training
Coaching involves communication, presentation,
didactic and social skils and respective proven methods
Coaches are trained in methods, through co-coaching
in a relevant context, and mentoring the next
Biomimicry Practitioners (18 coaching days + individually
assigned online mentoring)
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Here is your
journey...
9 months
4 modules with
face-to-face
2 3 sessions
1 4
Bioinspired
Online Circular
Innovator
Biomimicry Project 5
Reflection + 2-6 months
iSites
BCI Presentation
Biomimicry & BCI badge
Practitioner
Certification
BP + 8 months
Biomimicry
Coaching
Biomimicry Education
Coach
BC
Certification
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We are working with a global team of Biomimicry experts
to bring you the best training possible.
Below you find the curriculum for the Bioinspired Circular
Innovator and the Biomimicry Practitioner:
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Module 3: Learn & Practice
Biomimicry Project
from March 2020
Practitioner
Biomimicry
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A 3-step process to match your
personal goals
Bioinspired + 2599 €
Circular
Innovator
+ 1299 €** For
professional
Superbadge & -20% coaches
Certificate of
with BCI*
Completion
Best value
4x 1749€ ** for money
5999 €*
Best for
beginners ** pay as you go
* paid in advance
All prices plus 19% VAT
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A word at the end...
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contact us
contact@biomimicryacademy.com
www.biomimicryacademy.com