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CSCP News | Posted March 13, 2019

Practice Project with Migori Explores How QR Codes Can Make Packaging-Free Shopping More Attractive

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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 […]

CSCP News | Posted March 11, 2019

RheinEnergie Workshop: Rethinking the Future of Selling Energy

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 […]

CSCP News | Posted March 9, 2019

Registration Now Open for Food Waste Webinar Series Taking Place From April to May 2019

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 […]

CSCP News | Posted February 25, 2019

Food Waste Reduction Training With PENNY Apprentices Successfully Completed

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 […]

CSCP News | Posted February 24, 2019

Application to the Procura+ Awards for Innovative and Sustainable Procurements is Open – Submit Yours Until 31 March!

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 […]

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

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 […]

CSCP News | Posted February 6, 2019

Popup Dialogue-Centre Opens its Doors in Cologne

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, […]

CSCP News | Posted January 30, 2019

How to Convey a Message for a Broad Audience – With a Little Film and a Lot of Fun

We all know that food value chains have a high potential for improvements in terms of sustainability. But what would happen if we ask the products we consume how they feel? As part of the Action Alliance for Bananas (ABNB) project the CSCP created a video to sensitise consumers to start to think about aspects […]

CSCP News | Posted January 24, 2019

Siegelklarheit at Neonyt – International Hub for Fashion, Sustainability and Innovation

A mixture of conference, fair and fashion show – Neonyt, formerly Greenshowroom, a B2B event during the Berlin Fashion Week is all about sustainability in fashion. “CHANGE. FASHION. TOGETHER” was the theme of this year’s neonyt hub and the CSCP was in the middle of the action representing the Siegelklarheit project. Sustainability in the textile […]

CSCP News | Posted January 23, 2019

#InheritFutureForum in Vienna Provides a Glimpse at the Future With Promising Practices For Sustainable Lifestyles

From vegetable gardens in schools to apps that motivate people to cycle to work – the Future Forum brought together promising practices for sustainable, healthy and equitable lifestyles from all over Europe. The CSCP’s INHERIT project organised the Future Forum with the aim to show how we can stay healthy, while keeping our environment healthy […]