The Charta Sustainable Digitalisation: A Framework for Orientation and Inspiration for SMEs Faced with a multitude of challenges, it is often difficult for the management of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to take a step back from day-to-day business and ensure that the company’s course is set to leverage opportunities and avoid risks that come along with the sustainable-digital twin transformation. The Charta has been developed with this in mind. It focuses on the most important fields of action at this intersection and provides orientation and inspiration. The Charta is a starting point for managers to identify the specific chances and risks of their business and set a course based on their individual strengths, experiences, and ambitions. It supports SMEs with answers to the following three questions: What are the benefits for a company when thinking of digitalisation and sustainability together? What are some of the good practices in the market? How to get started? In its current stage, the Charta 1.0 is a cumulative document comprising three core elements: The Principles, which provide a principle-based orientation for shaping sustainable digitalisation in and by SMEs. The Fields of Action, which provide the minimum scope for a company-specific materiality assessment. The Factsheets – which zoom in on the outlined fields of action. The factsheets include hands-on support through guiding questions, good practice examples, initial steps, and thematic contact persons. The Charta project was financed by the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) and has been developed by the CSCP with broad stakeholder involvement from civil society, business and academia. It is a dialog-oriented framework that is designed as a living document to be adjusted and improved over time. Check-out our Charta page to get started or download the full Charta document (in German), including the factsheets. For further questions, please contact Arne von Hofe.