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Sustainability and Circular
Economy with Yair Engel
O
n December 7, AmCham Macedonia
hosted the renowned Israeli expert
Yair Engel, a designer, expert, and
consultant in sustainable innovation and
entrepreneurship, Cradle to Cradle and
Circular Economy. A leading figure and
change agent, Yair has been promoting
sustainable design amongst industrials,
entrepreneurs, government offices, and
academic institutions in Israel and in Europe.
This event was supported by the Israeli
Embassy in Macedonia and is in conjunction
with the international student conference
on Energy Efficiency and Sustainable
Development at the Faculty of Electrical
Engineering (FEIT). In addition to Yair’s talk,
participants had an opportunity to attend a
pitching competition where ideas from the
academic papers on energy efficiency were
transformed into practical business ideas
and presented as such. AmCham members
served as mentors and judges to the students
and had a unique opportunity to forge ties
between the private sector and the academia
that produces the workforce.
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