On August 4, 2019, the CIRCLE Orientation Week 2019 started with the first generation of the Erasmus Mundus International Master's Programme on Circular Economy (CIRCLE) on Hönö (Sweden). The Orientation Week brings together 16 students from all over the world and 6 academic coordinators of the CIRCLE partner universities.

During this week, students will be informed about important administrative procedures at the respective host universities and related to the CIRCLE programme. Moreover, they will meet their classmates and lecturers for the first time.

After an introduction to Circular Economy and Urban Mining, the students will be divided in four working groups for the assignment of this week: investigating the urban mine of Hönö. By end of the Orientation Week, all four working groups will present their research results before they start they journey to the European partner universities for their first year of studies in the frame of the master's programme.