| Posted May 11, 2023

Toward a Carbon Neutral Future: Join the Urban-Zero Festival on 13 May 2023 in Duisburg!

How can a zero-waste, carbon-neutral city district look like? How might relevant actors come together and create positive impact? At the Urban Zero-Festival, the municipal enterprise Duisburg will showcase ideas connected to zero-waste and discuss them with the participants. Don’t miss the festival on 13 May 2023! The festival is the starting point of the Urban Zero Initiative, which aims to make Ruhrort the world’s first carbon-neutral neighbourhood by 2029. Through more green spaces, sustainable offers, energy solutions, and mobility concepts, the initiative will benefit the environment and local residents alike. During the festival, the participants can experience, discover, and […]

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Renewable Material of the Year 2023

Global demand for embedded carbon (the carbon in molecules) is expected to increase significantly by 2050. Today, the vast majority of embedded carbon comes from fossil feedstocks, including oil, natural gas and coal. To achieve a fully de-fossilised economy, this demand must be met exclusively by renewable carbon sources, such as biomass. The Renewable Materials Conference, taking place on 23-25 May 2023 in Siegburg/Cologne (Germany), is a platform for showcasing achievements in the field of renewable materials. The conference brings together experts, stakeholders, and industry leaders to discuss latest developments and share their visions and strategies for the future. With […]

| Posted May 4, 2023

Sustainable Recipes Wanted: Our KochCUP Project Competition Is Launched!

Beyond competition on the field, sports like football are a powerful way to change things for the better on a larger scale. Our KochCup project wants to capitalise on the popularity of the 17th men’s UEFA Football Championship (EURO 2024) to raise awareness and mainstream environmentally-friendly food. How? Through organising a competition of sustainable recipes that will run before and during EURO 2024. The call for entries is open now! The competition, which is supported by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV), is primarily aimed at German trainee chefs. From May […]

| Posted May 2, 2023

Circular Economy: What’s in It for SMEs? – Listen to Our WertNetzWerke Podcast!

Circular Economy, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and digital tools offer companies vast opportunities to make their value chains more sustainable and resilient for the future. Through webinars, workshops, and trainings, our WertNetzWerke project is supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to make such aspects an integral part of their business. In this new podcast, CSCP Project Manager Thomas Wagner explains how – check it out! In the podcast, listeners will learn why Circular Economy is worthwhile for SMEs, how they can take first steps to integrate circularity in their work, and what are some of the best practices from companies that […]

| Posted April 20, 2023

Join Our Event at the World Circular Economy Forum on 11 May 2023: Headache Fractions in Mixed Municipal Waste!

Many consumer products pose significant waste management challenges and end up in landfills or incinerators after the use phase. From Circular Economy and waste management perspectives, such products can be considered ‘headaches’ when it comes to recycling and reducing residual municipal waste. At the workshop ‘Headache fractions in mixed municipal waste’, organised as a side event at the World Circular Economy Forum (WCEF), we will discuss the issues at hand and what needs to change to increase recycling and promote circularity. The workshop will draw on learnings from a European Environment Agency (EEA) study, conducted by the European Topic Centre […]

| Posted April 18, 2023

Don’t Miss Our Event “Circular and Digital: Innovations for Sustainability in Companies and Value Chains” on 4 May 2023!

In the context of rising raw material prices, uncertainties in supply chains, and increasing regulatory pressure, the topic of Circular Economy is becoming the focus of many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). At the event “Circular and Digital: Innovations for Sustainability in Companies and Value Chains”, co-organised by the CSCP and the Center for Innovation and Technology in North Rhein-Westphalia (NRW) – ZENIT,  we will discuss how digitalisation can support the circular transformation in NRW – join us on 4 May 2023! Digitalisation can be a force for good when it comes to achieving greater sustainability. In the context of […]

| Posted April 5, 2023

Join Us at the UBi Digital Dialogue on 24 April 2023: What do the New Global Biodiversity Targets Mean for Businesses?

On December 2022, at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD-COP 15) , the United Nations adopted the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, with 23 new nature conservation targets for 2030. These targets should now also be implemented in Germany. To this end, the German government is currently updating the National Strategy on Biological Diversity (NBS), a process in which governmental and non-governmental stakeholders are expected to be actively engaged. The decisions of the CBD-COP 15 are also highly relevant for businesses. The Digital Dialogue event, organised under the umbrella of our project UBi […]

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Join Our PSLifestyle Living Labs on 25 April and 16 May 2023 in Wuppertal, Germany to Co-Create Actions for a Sustainable Life

When it comes to leading sustainable lives, a key question is how to identify which actions have the biggest impact and how to turn them into long-lasting habits. Through a series Living Labs workshops, our PSLifestyle project has been working on an online tool that supports citizens to measure their footprint and take concrete action to reduce it. In April and May 2023, citizens from 8 European countries (Portugal, Finland, Estonia, Germany, Slovenia, Italy, Greece and Turkey) will test the PSL tool for a sustainable and good life across key areas such as housing, food, mobility and consumption. The next […]

| Posted April 3, 2023

Creating More Value Together Through Digitalisation – Join our WertNetzWerke Workshop on 25 April 2023!

While digitalisation has so far been implemented in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) mainly on a piecemeal basis, the next step toward the digital sustainable transformation can only be taken in collaboration with other companies and actors. The workshop “Rethinking Cooperations: Networks Create More Value & Sustainability”, 25 April 2023, will connect views from science and technology with those of businesses and identify collaboration pathways that create added value for all parties involved – don’t miss it! Organised by our WertNetzWerke digital centre, the all-day workshop will look into questions, such as: How can Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT […]

| Posted March 22, 2023

How Civil Society Can Support Social Cohesion in the Urban Transformation

Beyond personal choice, who we socialise with is often conditioned by aspects such as language, culture, income, and structures of our daily life. To avoid fragmentation and support social cohesion it is necessary to build bridges between different groups in society. Our project UrbanUp has explored ways how civil society actors such as neighbourhood initiatives can enhance their role as drivers of social cohesion, especially in the context of urban transformation. In this transdisciplinary research project, we teamed up with “Aufbruch am Arrenberg e.V.”,  a well-established and renowned civil society association and “Werke”, a young students collective, to co-design and […]

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