CSCP News | Posted March 19, 2019 Cookin’Hope Workshop – Discussing the Professional Integration of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the Gastronomy Sector CSCP NewsBusiness & EntrepreneurshipLifestyles & BehaviourMulti-stakeholder Engagements & PanelsSustainable Business ModelsTrainings & Capacity Building This one-day workshop, which took place in February, was a great success, bringing together stakeholders from refugee and asylum organisations, policy makers and business. It led to the establishment of a network that is going to push the agenda and the objectives of the workshop forward. This is to ensure continued sustainable professional integration of […] Read more
CSCP News | Posted March 18, 2019 Introducing Sustainable Consumption and Production to Horticultural Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Kenya #GOALANproject CSCP NewsBusiness & EntrepreneurshipPolicyTrainings & Capacity Building Horticultural Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) in Naivasha, Kenya, can now actively reduce their environmental footprint and become more sustainable after participating in the Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) training conducted as part of the CSCP’s GOALAN project. In Kenya, the horticulture industry is the fastest growing agricultural sub-sector. It is one of the […] Read more
CSCP News | Posted March 17, 2019 “Every Job is Green” – BOOM Camps Want to Excite Young People About Future Jobs CSCP NewsProducts & ServicesConsumption Behaviour & TrendsSustainable Value ChainsTrainings & Capacity Building “How will I live and work in 2030? Which products and services will be needed in the future and how can these be designed sustainably? Will there still be the same jobs in 2030? What skills will I need in the future?” The CSCP is about to explore these and other questions with teenagers and […] Read more
CSCP News | Posted March 13, 2019 Practice Project with Migori Explores How QR Codes Can Make Packaging-Free Shopping More Attractive @ZukunftDigital CSCP NewsBusiness & EntrepreneurshipConsumption Behaviour & TrendsSustainable Business Models migori is the first store in Cologne’s Südstadt to leave packaging behind – for the sake of the environment, as well as to create new options of shopping. To better inform their customers about the products they are buying, migori is teaming up with Competence Centre eStandards experts. In Germany, about 6 million tons of […] Read more
CSCP News | Posted March 11, 2019 RheinEnergie Workshop: Rethinking the Future of Selling Energy CSCP NewsBusiness & EntrepreneurshipProducts & ServicesConsumption Behaviour & TrendsSustainable Business ModelsTrainings & Capacity Building Energy is used and needed everywhere: in homes, for production, and for mobility. Engineers are developing new, smarter ways to make energy available to contribute to a good life for their customers and citizens in general. In our innovative workshop with the RheinEnergie sales management team and :metabolon, we asked how an energy supplier can […] Read more
CSCP News | Posted March 9, 2019 Registration Now Open for Food Waste Webinar Series Taking Place From April to May 2019 CSCP NewsLifestyles & BehaviourPolicyProducts & ServicesConsumption Behaviour & TrendsMulti-stakeholder Engagements & PanelsSustainable Value Chains European food waste experts from WRAP, Wageningen University, the CSCP, Ecologic, Anthesis and others will demonstrate how actors in the food supply chain can effectively address food waste in an upcoming series of four webinars on ‘Tackling Food Waste Across the Supply Chain’. The EU research project REFRESH and its virtual resource and knowledge sharing […] Read more
CSCP News | Posted February 25, 2019 Food Waste Reduction Training With PENNY Apprentices Successfully Completed CSCP NewsBusiness & EntrepreneurshipPolicyMulti-stakeholder Engagements & Panels By early summer 2018, almost 900 PENNY trainees had been trained on reducing food waste as part of a REFRESH pilot project in Germany. Now the food retailer PENNY and the CSCP wanted to know to what extent the topic was still fresh on the apprentices’ minds months after the training. The CSCP — in […] Read more
CSCP News | Posted February 24, 2019 Application to the Procura+ Awards for Innovative and Sustainable Procurements is Open – Submit Yours Until 31 March! CSCP NewsCities & InfrastructureMulti-stakeholder Engagements & PanelsSustainable Value Chains Public authorities can now submit their applications to the 2019 edition of the Procura+ Awards, a major and prestigious recognition of procurements and related initiatives with remarkable economic, environmental and social impacts, or innovation elements. The Procura+ Awards is an initiative of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, ICLEI, in co-operation with the EU-funded […] Read more
CSCP News | Posted February 23, 2019 Cookin’ Hope Workshop on 26 February – Discuss How to Integrate Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Germany through Professional Training CSCP NewsBusiness & EntrepreneurshipSustainable Business ModelsTrainings & Capacity Building Germany faces a significant shortage of skilled workers in a number of sectors. It is also home to a large number of refugees and asylum seekers. The Cooking Hope Project facilitates asylum seekers’ professional integration in the gastronomy sector as well as addressing the shortage of skilled labor in that sector. In 2018, the state […] Read more
CSCP News | Posted February 6, 2019 Popup Dialogue-Centre Opens its Doors in Cologne @durchblickpopup#durchblickpopups CSCP NewsLifestyles & BehaviourMulti-stakeholder Engagements & Panels The Popup Dialogue-Centre “Durchblick” opens its doors for citizens in Cologne. It is dedicated to the questions and answers on the digitalisation of work. Which technologies will be pioneering in the future and which social and ecological aspects will play a role? What hopes and worries do we associate with digitalisation? In the travelling exhibition, […] Read more