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CSCP News | Posted April 9, 2018

Artist Ulrika Eller-Rüter Joins the CSCP’s Co-Working Space

We welcomed artist Dr. Ulrika Eller-Rüter, Professor of Painting at Alanus University of the Arts and Sciences in Bonn and Founder of the “Kunst im sozialen Brennpunkt” Institute, to our Co-Working Space, where we talked about taking art into the board room and affecting change on a larger scale. Imagine walking out of the train […]

CSCP News | Posted April 9, 2018

Learn Which Types of Interventions Could Support More Resilient and Sustainable Food Value Chains

@ValumicsH2020

Price, quality, environmental impacts, working conditions, information, infrastructure, reputation, negotiation power, convenience, values, health concerns – these are all aspects that influence how food value chains function. But what drives these factors in the first place and what are their impacts on sustainable consumption and production? Most importantly: which types of interventions could support us […]

CSCP News | Posted April 8, 2018

Project Start – ProMoNa: Prosumption Models for Sustainable Food and Clothing

Are you a prosumer? That depends. If you have ever assembled furniture for your own home you are a prosumer. If you have knitted your own socks, engaged in an urban gardening project or used the self-checkout at the supermarket, that counts too. If done right, prosumption can hold great sustainability potential. According to Alvin […]

CSCP News | Posted April 6, 2018

Sustainable Label assessment platform Siegelklarheit now supported by the CSCP

#Siegelklarheit

Siegelklarheit.de is guiding consumers through the label jungle. A CSCP-led consortium has been selected to support the platform in reaching out to mainstream consumers and increasing consumer awareness on sustainable products and labels. Better access to information for consumers, especially through the improvement and the expansion of product labels and product labeling, is among the […]

CSCP News | Posted April 5, 2018

Project Kick-off: „The Future of Work: Insights – Popup Dialogue-Centers on the Working World of Tomorrow“

Can robots make medical and health care more humane? Will I be able to work on the beach as if I were sitting in the office in the near future? Do I want this? Digitalisation is happening now. It affects not only our private life, it affects the way we work as well as our […]

CSCP News | Posted April 4, 2018

The CSCP is a Founding Member of the Climate Chain Coalition

@ClimateChain

Distributed Ledger Technologie (DLT, e.g. blockchain) is one of the major technological developments to support the transition towards sustainability. At the second anniversary of the Paris Agreement, 25 organizations jointly established the Climate Chain Coalition (CCC) to advance DLT for scaling climate actions for mitigation and adaption. During the One Planet Summit on 12 December […]

CSCP News | Posted March 27, 2018

The CSCP’s First Circular Economy Mapping Exercise Finds 50 Initiatives in Wuppertal

The next generation of our economy was mapped in Wuppertal on 7 February 2018, when local stakeholders came together to take stock of the circular economy initiatives already in place – and discuss the future of circularity. The Mapping Exercise in Wuppertal brought together local professionals working on the advancement of a circular economy under the umbrella […]

CSCP News | Posted March 21, 2018

Join Us at the Final Conference of ILoNa and Discuss Innovative Logistics in Essen on 17 April

After 3 years of intense research on innovative logistic services and consumers’ lifestyles, multiple workshops, interviews and case studies, the ILoNa project comes to an end. This conference will be the closing event for this project, which produced pioneering work for science, industries and civil society. The closing event of ILoNa project will be a […]

CSCP News | Posted March 20, 2018

Public Actors Gear Up for 2018 Procura+ Awards – Are You a Potential Winner?

#procuraplus

Is your public authority a trailblazer in the procurement of sustainable goods or services? Have you conducted exemplary green procurement in the last two years? If so, you could be in line for the Procure+ Award! The Procura+ Awards recognise sustainable and innovative public procurements that lead to real improvements in public goods, services, processes […]

CSCP News | Posted March 14, 2018

How Digitalisation and Cultural Understanding Can Help Us Transition to a Better System

The CSCP led two dialogues at the Circular Economy Stakeholder Conference in Brussels in February. “Roadmap to ICT-enabled circular economy”, where we discussed how digitalisation can enable circularity and “Overcoming Cultural Challenges in the Circular Transition” on the cultural factors that are key for developing better systems. Transitioning from our linear, degenerative, wasteful economy to […]