| Posted August 29, 2024

Our Project BIO-CAPITAL Brings Together Innovative Financial Tools and Space Technology to Protect Biodiversity

Biodiversity loss poses serious threats to clean air, fresh water, and healthy soils – jeopardising services that are essential for our wellbeing and the economy. With the European Union warning that biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate across the continent*, innovative approaches are needed to address the challenge. Our new EU Horizon project, BIO-CAPITAL has launched with a mission to protect and restore biodiversity across Europe by combining private capital with cutting-edge space technology. Funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe framework, this initiative brings together 17 partners from 13 countries to develop financial tools that counter […]

| Posted August 15, 2024

The Value Creation Lab in Wuppertal Has Opened its Doors

How can collaboration and circular economy practices create value for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and value networks? The Value Creation Lab in Wuppertal, which officially opened in September 2024, offers a space for key actors to come together and engage in impactful ways. What is the Value Creation Lab Wuppertal about? As a major component of our Digital Centre WertNetzWerke project, the Value Creation Lab combines circular value creation and digitalisation and offer opportunities for sustainable and future-proof business models. For a circular business model to succeed, it requires trust-based relationships and close collaboration between partner companies. As part […]

| Posted August 10, 2024

The CircularTech Forum 2024: The Battery Passport Edition

With the Digital Product Passport (DPP) set for compulsory adaption as of February 2027, all product information, from material sourcing through to end-of-cycle recycling, has to be accessible and transparent. The DPP will be affixed to products (as a NFC chip, QR code, or RFID tag) so that any actor along the chain, be it a manufacturer, retailer, or consumer can easily access it. The Digital Product Passport can be a strong lever for the Circular Economy, in that the type and scope of information it features can enable key processes such as repairing, remanufacturing, or recycling of products. To […]

| Posted July 25, 2024

Kickstart of CARE’s Circular Heroes: Co-creation Workshops for European Households

Picture this: In Germany alone, 11 million tonnes of food waste in 2020 could fill more than 1.800 Olympic-sized swimming pools*, while nearly half a million tonnes of used clothing could cover the entire city of Munich in 2022**. What if we could minimise these staggering numbers through everyday circular habits? Discover how households are becoming champions of change and learn how you can join them! Create, struggle, prototype, exhibit, celebrate, grow. These words greeted participants at Berlin’s event space “Playground” and set the tone for CARE’s human-centered design workshop “Circular Heroes“. But before we dive into the creative results, […]

| Posted July 11, 2024

IT Companies as Sustainability Accelerators – Join Our Workshops!

The twin sustainable and digital transformation of the economy is one of the biggest topics of our time. But, how can small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from the IT industry drive this transformation and create added value for the economy and society in general? The ITM project funded by the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) is supporting a pioneering group of German SMEs from the Information Technology (IT) sector to optimise their own sustainability performance (decrease footprint), innovate twin transformative products and services (increase handprint), and advocate for supportive market framework conditions on a policy level. The hands-on collaboration with 12 […]

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Supporting Sustainable Business in Africa Through Capacity Building

Micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) are a strong pillar of Africa’s economy. However, many such companies face challenges related to finance, skills, and market access. Through our SteamBioAfrica project we are working closely with MSMEs on capacity-building programmes focusing on sustainable entrepreneurship and financial management, enhancing local capacity, and fostering economic resilience. Africa enjoys one of the highest entrepreneurship rates globally, with micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) playing a crucial role in the continent’s sustainable development*. However, a staggering 80% of African MSMEs fail within their first years, primarily due to limited access to finance, human resources, essential […]

| Posted July 8, 2024

New HOOP Publications Released: How to Transform Urban Biowaste Management

How can cities better manage biowaste and promote circular bioeconomies? The HOOP project provides insights with its recently published National Action Manuals tailored for eight lighthouse cities in Europe. The manuals, which are available in the respective local languages, include guidelines on how to transform urban biowaste into valuable resources. The manuals are tailored to the unique contexts and languages of the respective lighthouse cities. The lighthouse cities serve as circular hubs where novel biowaste valorisation routes and value chains are created and tested. The HOOP project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program, aims to transform how cities […]

| Posted June 27, 2024

Take the Lifestyle Test at the “Langer Tisch Festival” on 29 June 2024 in Wuppertal!

The collective sum of our individual lifestyles has a significant impact on the climate. Our Lifestyle Test, developed as part of the PSLifestyles project, supports citizens to take concrete actions for sustainable living in their local contexts. The test is available as a free web app in 9 European countries, including Germany. In June 2024, the project team presented the Lifestyle Test at the Solingen Sustainability Festival and engaged with citizens to raise awareness on the importance of endorsing sustainable lifestyles. Among the citizens who took the test in Solingen, Germany popular impactful lifestyle changes included endorsing a vegetarian diet, discovering […]

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Accelerating Next Food: Stakeholder Recommendations to Drive the Adoption of Alternative Proteins Across Europe

To date, the adoption on a large scale of plant-, insect- or fungi-based protein sources has been slow, calling for a better understanding of key factors at the consumer and broader infrastructural level. The EU-funded LIKE-A-PRO project is on a mission to accelerate the adoption of alternative proteins by considering how to increase their availability, accessibility and consumption. The project explores this opportunity by supporting the development of new products, understanding consumer acceptance and supporting relevant stakeholders in their efforts to accelerate their adoption. As part of the project, a series of studies have been conducted to better understand the […]

| Posted June 26, 2024

“An Invitation to Change the Mindset”

Ashley Scarborough is a Berlin-based system change designer. As part of her co-working experience at the CSCP in spring 2024, we explored ways how to use design as a form of creative problem-solving to address major sustainability challenges of today. In this interview, she shares how pairing design with systems thinking can help shape a better future. In your work, you combine design and systems thinking – how does this approach look like in practice? Design is creative problem solving, and a big part of system thinking is about uncovering all the layers of the problem at very deep, interconnected […]

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