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The E-waste Challenge Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)






 
   
 A playlist has been complied by the secretariat to include all available videos on E-waste challenge MOOC.

The E-waste Challenge MOOC was launch on 29 September 2025! Access the five courses from this page.

What’s included?

  • Five comprehensive online courses
    Engage with a carefully structured series of five online courses, each focusing on a critical aspect of e-waste management.
  • Live webinars
    Participate in webinars led by international experts. These interactive sessions allow for direct engagement, deeper exploration of complex topics, and real-time Q&A.
  • Thriving learning community
    Connect with peers, instructors, and professionals from around the world. Ongoing community discussions and group activities cultivate collaboration, insight-sharing, and mutual support throughout the learning process.

Live webinars

E-waste Challenge MOOC live event: E-Waste Management: Standardization and Conformity Assessment, World Resources Forum (WRF)

E-waste Challenge MOOC live event: E-Waste Management: Standardization and Conformity Assessment, World Resources Forum (WRF)

This session provides an overview of the main certification schemes for e-waste management, highlighting their key differences, commonalities, and implications for conformity assessment. Participants will gain insight into how these schemes operate (whether they are site-specific, process-oriented, or value-chain-based) and how they influence the development of responsible and verifiable e-waste recycling systems.

E-waste Challenge MOOC live event: E-Waste Management: Standardization and Conformity Assessment, World Resources Forum (WRF)

E-waste Challenge MOOC live event: E-Waste Management: Standardization and Conformity Assessment, World Resources Forum (WRF)
 
E-waste Challenge MOOC live event: Inclusive and sustainable e-waste recycling: global solutions for a growing problem, World Resources Forum (WRF)

E-waste Challenge MOOC live event: Inclusive and sustainable e-waste recycling: global solutions for a growing problem, World Resources Forum (WRF)

The session will introduce key factors necessary to develop sustainable and inclusive e-waste recycling businesses in developing countries, best practices and worst practices to be avoided. This includes the presentation of principles for tracing the secondary extraction of metals from e-waste, in sustainable reverse value chains.

E-waste Challenge MOOC live event: Inclusive and sustainable e-waste recycling: global solutions for a growing problem, World Resources Forum (WRF)

E-waste Challenge MOOC live event: Inclusive and sustainable e-waste recycling: global solutions for a growing problem, World Resources Forum (WRF)
 
E-waste Challenge MOOC live event: The Global E-Waste Monitor – 2024 -E-Waste Rising Five Times Faster than Documented E-waste Recycling, (UNITAR)

E-waste Challenge MOOC live event: The Global E-Waste Monitor – 2024 -E-Waste Rising Five Times Faster than Documented E-waste Recycling, (UNITAR)

Come and learn how the fourth edition of the Global E-waste Monitor Report 2024, from UNITAR and ITU, found out that e-waste generation is growing at a faster pace than previously estimated, worldwide. 

E-waste Challenge MOOC live event: The Global E-Waste Monitor – 2024 -E-Waste Rising Five Times Faster than Documented E-waste Recycling, (UNITAR)

E-waste Challenge MOOC live event: The Global E-Waste Monitor – 2024 -E-Waste Rising Five Times Faster than Documented E-waste Recycling, (UNITAR)
 
E-waste Challenge MOOC live event: Reducing E-waste by design, the role of International Standards for E-waste Management, ITU

E-waste Challenge MOOC live event: Reducing E-waste by design, the role of International Standards for E-waste Management, ITU

Join us in this Webinar to learn more about the advantages of using international standards to manage e-waste. The leading ICT experts at the International Telecommunication Union have been working closely with its diverse memberships to develop international standards (i.e. ITU-T Recommendations) that support the sustainable management of e-waste.

E-waste Challenge MOOC live event: Reducing E-waste by design, the role of International Standards for E-waste Management, ITU

E-waste Challenge MOOC live event: Reducing E-waste by design, the role of International Standards for E-waste Management, ITU
 
E-waste Challenge MOOC live event: Critical materials, e-waste recycling and climate change, KU Leuven

E-waste Challenge MOOC live event: Critical materials, e-waste recycling and climate change, KU Leuven

This webinar will open a series of live lectures in the occasion of the third re-launch of the E-waste Challenge Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). This MOOC was initially launched in 2016, the third version was launched on the FutureLearn platform, in September 2025. The E-waste Challenge MOOC includes five courses which can be taken independently or all together.

E-waste Challenge MOOC live event: Critical materials, e-waste recycling and climate change, KU Leuven

E-waste Challenge MOOC live event: Critical materials, e-waste recycling and climate change, KU Leuven
 
E-waste Challenge MOOC live event: E-waste and children health, WHO

E-waste Challenge MOOC live event: E-waste and children health, WHO

Come and learn about children health and exposure to e-waste, celebrate with us International E-waste Day 2025! Primitive recycling techniques such as burning cables for retaining the inherent copper expose both adult and child workers as well as their families to a range of hazardous substances.

E-waste Challenge MOOC live event: E-waste and children health, WHO

E-waste Challenge MOOC live event: E-waste and children health, WHO
 

Online courses available

The E-Waste Challenge (EN,  ES)

Learn to manage e-waste responsibly and drive action in your personal, business, or organizational context.

E-Waste and Children’s Health (EN,  ES)

Understand the dangers of e-waste and discover solutions to protect the health of future generations.

Reducing E-Waste by Design, Standards, Business & Policy (EN,  ES)

Dive into effective strategies involving design, policy, and global initiatives to mitigate e-waste.

Inclusive and Sustainable E-Waste Recycling: Global Solutions for a Growing Problem (EN,  ES)

Discover how inclusive and sustainable recycling approaches transform waste into opportunity.

E-Waste Management – Standardization and Conformity Assessment (EN,  ES)

Explore global standards and conformity processes that ensure safe, sustainable e-waste management.

Programme dates

  • Online course launch: The five online courses go live 29 September 2025.
  • Live webinars: Shortly after the launch, join a sequence of live webinars that run over a period of five weeks, providing real-time engagement, discussion, and insight with leading experts and fellow learners.
  • All courses remain available for self-paced study after the live events and all events are recorded and will be made available on this site.

Who should join?

  • University graduate students
  • Policy makers
  • E-waste operators
  • Healthcare professionals
  • Administrators
  • Business managers
  • Anyone interested in making a difference in e-waste management

Who designed the course?

The E-Waste Challenge series was designed and developed by:

Certificates of achievements

  • Receive a certificate upon completion of each course.
  • Complete all five courses to earn a certificate of course completion from the Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions (BRS Secretariat), and EIT RawMaterials, with recognition from all contributing organizations.