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CSCP News | Posted October 25, 2022

How Digital Tools Can Help You Reduce Your Footprint: Test Our PSL Tool on 9 November 2022 in Solingen!

Breaking up with old routines or endorsing high-impact changes is not always a straightforward process. This is why options for sustainable behaviour should be flexible enough to fit the reality of life and the respective life phases of different people – what is difficult for one might be easy for another, and opposite. Over the […]

CSCP News | Posted October 24, 2022

Closing the Gap Between Circularity and Sustainability with Our ‘sustainable.circular’ Programme

Think of the following: a product might be made of 100 % recycled materials, but if its production was energy intensive, the social aspects were neglected in the value chain, and the product itself has a high carbon emission during the use phase, it will inevitably fall short of being sustainable as well. The Circular […]

CSCP News | Posted October 18, 2022

Watch the Recording of our #EUCircularTalk: Accelerating Circular Behaviours – How Can Digitalisation Help Us?

What are the missing pieces in the puzzle in order to make circularity the norm among consumers in Europe? What can stakeholders such as retailers, city representatives, policymakers, and civil society organisations (CSOs) do to enable circular behaviours among consumers? How can digitalisation play a supporting role in this process? At the #EUCircularTalk Accelerating Circular […]

CSCP News | Posted October 5, 2022

Join Us at Our Event: Go for Digital – Success With eStandards on 24 October

The Competence Centre eStandards hosts an event to highlight the accomplishments of the last 5 years. Learn about the success strategies of our project’s participating companies and exchange ideas in our “Olympic village”, e.g. on the shortage of skilled workers, sustainable digitalisation, IT security or funding opportunities. In October, milestones of the project will be […]

CSCP News | Posted October 5, 2022

Join our Regional Design Thinking Workshop to Develop Products from “Waste” on 26 October

Companies from the Bergisches Städtedreieck, Wuppertal, Remscheid und Solingen in Germany are invited to join this regional design thinking workshop to develop new products from “waste” materials at the Gläserne Werkstatt in Solingen on October 26, 2022. The CSCP’s project Gläserne Werkstatt partners up with the project InSym to offer this hands-on workshop. As a […]

CSCP News | Posted September 22, 2022

Upskilling and Reskilling: How the CATALYST Project Will Support SMEs to Transform

Just around one percent of German companies are not a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME). With the necessary skills, SMEs can play a decisive role in shaping Europe’s sustainable future. But, how can they prepare their workforces for this? On 19 and 20 September, 16 project partners from 5 European countries came together in Skopje, […]

CSCP News | Posted September 20, 2022

Toward a European Bioeconomy: Don’t Miss Our Scalibur Project Final Event on 19 October 2022!

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Rethinking municipal solid waste management is a central element in the transition to a circular and bio-economy. Yet, this remains a significant challenge for many European cities. A successful implementation of a circular and bio-economy needs to account for a reduction in the amount of (bio)waste deposited in landfills while enhancing the share of (bio)waste […]

CSCP News | Posted September 20, 2022

“We Need to Come Together Around Purpose!”

Alexander Mannweiler has joined the CSCP as Senior Project Manager in the Sustainable Infrastructure, Products, and Services (SIPS) team. Currently, his focus is on promoting awareness for biodiversity in businesses and business associations in Germany as part of the UBi (Business & Biodiversity) project. In this interview, he shares his ideas on how to make […]

CSCP News | Posted September 20, 2022

Join our Digital Dialogue: How New Legislation Can Help Preserve Biodiversity & What This Means for Businesses

For many companies, the environmental and social impact of their supply chains is significantly higher than the impact of their operational business. As of 2023, the German Supply Chain Sourcing Act and the EU Code of Conduct for Responsible Business and Marketing Practices will require companies to take responsibility for their supply chains. Our UBi […]

CSCP News | Posted September 19, 2022

“Understanding Social Norms Holds the Key to Sustainable Consumption”

For the Argentinian psychologist, Maria Victoria Ortiz understanding social dilemmas and what hinders or propels cooperation in society is an ongoing fascination. Her doctoral research focuses on consumption behaviours and lifestyles and how those could hold the key to counter an aggravating climate crisis. Ortiz, who is a Green Talents awardee, uses an experimental climate […]