Press releases, press photos and quotes from across the Circular Innovation Bootcamp’s editions.
In Students’ Own Words
“This boot camp was a perfect blend of learning, collaboration, and innovation […] I leave this experience inspired, informed, and ready to contribute to a more circular and regenerative future.”
Harsh Locande · Kaunas University of Technology · CIB24
“Our trip to Tenerife […] was an eye-opening experience […] ending up with more than just information, but with a changed perception as well. On a personal level, our outlook changed because of the experience.”
Jorge Novais · Loro Parque team · CIB24
“It was a wonderful experience to work with students of other nationalities and different fields of study […] we would never have been as successful without this diversity in our team.”
Team 3 · TITSA project · CIB22
“We all think that this project has made us grow as individual personalities and people in society and that many tasks and problems can be solved better in a team than alone.”
Team 4 · TITSA project · CIB22
Press & Media Coverage
April 2026 · Insel-Magazin, Ausgabe 68
Think Tank zur Zukunft der Insel
Anlässlich des zehnten Bootcamp-Jubiläums im Herbst 2026 blickt Insel-Magazin auf die Entwicklung zurück: von einer bescheidenen Kooperation mit der Hochschule Kempten zu einem jährlichen Projekt mit Studierenden aus Spanien, Deutschland, Portugal, Litauen und Albanien. Partnerunternehmen des aktuellen Jahrgangs: die Loro Parque-Stiftung, das Hotel Tigaiga, Balten, Tagua und TeidAgua.
v.l.n.r.: Francisco Javier García Rodríguez (ULL), Prof. Dr.h.c. Günter Koch, Prof. Dr. Andreas Müller
23 November 2025 · Tenerife Weekly
9th Sustainability Bootcamp in Tenerife with Record Participation
A record 31 students from universities in five European countries spent a week working intensively with six Tenerife companies. The opening, on 10 November, coincided with the opening of COP30 in Brazil, with a video link connecting the ULL session to one of the COP sub-conferences. The Rector of the Universidad de La Laguna, Francisco Javier García Rodríguez, attended and spoke at the event.
Image: Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), via Tenerife Weekly · also covered in German by Insel-Magazin, Ausgabe 64.
21 November 2024 · Tenerife Weekly
Brainstorming for a Future Worth Living in the Canary Islands
30 students and their professors from Germany, Lithuania, Portugal, Albania and Tenerife spent a week producing concrete, pioneering proposals for five participating companies – among them the Loro Parque Foundation, which came away with suggestions ranging from solar and wind energy farms to ‘eco-games’ for park visitors, and TAGUA, examined for its desalination and deep-drilling facilities.
November 2024 · STARS EU Alliance
STARS EU Students Complete an Erasmus+ BIP Circular Economy Course at the University of La Laguna
“This type of hybrid and transnational training goes beyond providing knowledge, since it allows students to have academic experiences close to real life and contact with a productive fabric very different from the continental one, which makes this bootcamp a compressed living lab from which to enhance their abilities to face complex problems in the future.” – Prof. Rodrigo Trujillo González, Universidad de La Laguna, STARS EU Steering Committee.
Image: STARS EU Alliance / Universidad de La Laguna · also shared on LinkedIn.
Dezember 2023 · Insel-Magazin, Ausgabe 40
Bootcamp für Kreislaufwirtschaft
Unter dem Titel „Jugend sucht Zukunftslösungen“ berichtet Insel-Magazin über das Blended Intensive Programme 2023: Studierende aus Kempten, Amsterdam und ULL arbeiteten mit den Unternehmen Fundación Loro Parque, EAVE und Wooptix an Vorschlägen zur Kreislaufwirtschaft.
Press Releases
December 19, 2024 · Kempten, Germany
Circular Innovation Bootcamp 2024: A Collaborative Milestone in Circular Economy Education
“Teamwork was not just a method; it was the heart of CIB24,” said Prof. Dr. Andreas Müller, Programme Coordinator. “The innovative solutions presented reflect the immense potential of our youth to lead the transition to a regenerative economy.”
See Partner Schools and Partner Companies for the full 2024 consortium and industry partners.
2019 · Tenerife / Kempten
Circular Economy on Tenerife? Bavarian Students Use Tenerife as a Living Lab
For the third year running, a group of Master’s students from Hochschule Kempten travelled to Tenerife to study business models beyond tourism. “The Canaries offer an exceptional combination of high tech and infrastructure, and its geographic limitations are an ideal testing ground to develop unique business models for a future beyond tourism,” said Prof. Dr. Andreas Müller, who accompanied the group together with Prof. Dr. Katrin Stefan, head of the Master’s programme “Global Business Development.” The group worked closely with Prof. DI Günter Koch (Humboldt Cosmos Multiversity), Prof. Dr. Rodrigo Trujillo (Universidad de La Laguna) and Máximo Nägele Hernández (Colegio de Ingenieros, Santa Cruz).
In just one week, students visited the Coplaca/FAST banana plantation in La Orotava, the Port of Santa Cruz, the Institute of Renewable Energies, and the PIRS ecological complex in Granadilla, developing circular business ideas ranging from banana-leaf packaging to insect-based protein farming and anti-ocean-dumping incentive schemes for ships.
Have press coverage, a LinkedIn post, or a published article about the Circular Innovation Bootcamp we should feature here? Let us know: andreas.mueller@hs-kempten.de.
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