| Posted January 31, 2024

The BREADCRUMB Project is Launched: How to Save Food Through Better Marketing Standards

The quality and appearance of food products that we find on retailer shelves is at least partially defined by marketing standards. At early stages of the supply chain, like the interface of production and retail, certain product specifications may result in products being sorted out and becoming food loss or waste. 21 partners from eight European countries have come together in the Breadcrumb project aiming to better understand and reduce the impacts of marketing standards on food waste. 14 multi-actor case studies covering five food commodities (fruits & vegetables, meat, eggs, cereals and fish) will play a major role in […]

| Posted January 24, 2024

Skills and Competences for the Future: Join our CATALYST Event on 6 February 2024!

In a world racing against time to meet ambitious climate targets, increasing sustainability skills and competences should be on top of the agenda. In particular, the lack of comprehensive approaches to continuously build capacities for transformation in organisations such as small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) need to be addressed with priority. In response to this urgent need, the CSCP has teamed up with the German Sustainable Economy Association (BNW) and Bells Solutions to establish a joint European Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVe) in Germany as part of the CATALYST project. A key goal of the centre is to foster excellence […]

| Posted December 13, 2023

Enabling Organisations to Reshape Their Business Models

Janna Prager has joined the CSCP as a Project Manager in the Sustainable Business and Entrepreneurship (SBE) team. Her work evolves around inspiring and enabling companies to rethink their business models on their way to becoming sustainable businesses. She believes that through many small but persisting steps social and sustainable entrepreneurship can become the new normal. Can you tell us more about some of your career highlights so far? I started working in the music business as a public relations manager, which allowed me to work with creative and inspiring people in such a dynamic industry. After a career switch, […]

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The CSCP and the co-do! lab Support the City of Duisburg to Become a Circularity Frontrunner

Public transport, waste management, water and energy supply are all policies that impact citizens’ lives directly and fall under the responsibility of cities. So, what can cities do to unlock their potential and become Circular Economy pioneers in order to achieve greater sustainability and ensure a better life for their citizens in the long run? Which actors need to be involved and how can transformation be approached and implemented successfully? The opportunities are many, from setting up the right infrastructure to engaging citizens and companies in an impactful way. The CSCP and the co-do lab collaborated with the city of […]

| Posted December 12, 2023

Building Skills for Tomorrow: Our CATALYST Project Presents its 70-Course Learning Programme

The shift toward a climate-neutral Europe depends greatly on the skills and competences of individuals and businesses to initiate and drive the needed transformations. With its European Skills Agenda, the European Union (EU) has detailed a five-year plan to help individuals and businesses build skills in order to strengthen the sustainable competitiveness of the EU, ensure social fairness, and strengthen resilience. At an international event held in November 2023 in Graz, Austria our CATALYST project unveiled an extensive curriculum of 70 online courses that support individuals and companies to reskill and upskill in view of an ever-changing work environment. The […]

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The CSRD Opens a New Chapter on Biodiversity Reporting: What This Means for Companies

Starting from 2024, around 49,000 European companies are expected to report in accordance with the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), an instrument by the European Commission that will make sustainability reporting as binding as financial reporting. The EU hopes that this will lead to greater transparency and scale sustainability efforts. But what does this mean for companies, their business models and supply chain practices? How can they use the new directive as an impetus to align their business operations with sustainability – and biodiversity – goals? Lastly, how can companies use the new directive as an opportunity to better profile […]

| Posted December 11, 2023

How Municipal Waste Companies Can Shape the Circular Transformation

How do we change systems in the journey to creating more sustainable cities and regions? This is not a straightforward task, yet approaching relevant stakeholders and enabling them is one key step to addressing it. During 2023, the CSCP supported such a transformation process through a collaboration with the German Association of Public Utility Companies (Verband Kommunaler Unternehmen – VKU). Resources such as waste are a vital element in Circular Economy transitions, making municipal waste companies key actors in transformation processes in cities and regions. The goal of the project was to help municipal waste companies redefine their role in […]

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“You Can Only Achieve What You Can Imagine”, Says Eva Rudolf From the co-do! lab

Eva Rudolf is a CSCP senior designer and co-do lab team member who believes that true transformation starts with open-minded people. In this interview, she explains how the co-do lab employs “Taste” formats to inspire key actors to start and implement successful transformation processes. Sometimes to start a transformation process one needs to get “a taste” of how the change could look or feel like. What is the co-do lab approach to this? Transformation starts with people, imagination and open minds. In the last years we learned that when it comes to the complex and interconnected challenges that we face […]

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Cultured Meat and Seafood: A Key to a More Sustainable Food System?

Currently, our global food system is responsible for almost twenty percent of total greenhouse gas emissions; and yet, it is not adequately meeting nutritional needs worldwide. The emergence of the cultured meat (CM) and cultured seafood (CSF) industries opens up new opportunities to meet global demands while at the same time lowering the food industry’s environmental footprint. Cultured meat (CM) and cultured seafood (CSF) are promising new sectors but numerous challenges are hampering their advancement on a larger scale. For example, the absence of up-to-date data regarding production technologies of such products, tools and metrics to assess their environmental and […]

| Posted December 7, 2023

The PathoCERT Project Invites Stakeholders to its Final Community of Practice Meeting on 2 February 2024!

Over a period of three years, the PathoCERT project has developed user-friendly tools and technologies aimed at enhancing the awareness and coordination capabilities of first responders and key stakeholders within the command-and-control hierarchy during emergency waterborne pathogen contamination events. As the project draws to a close, a final European Community of Practice event will take centre stage on 2 February 2024. The event “Navigating Waterborne Pathogen Emergencies with PathoCERT’s Policy Perspectives and Field Experiences” will focus on distilling lessons learned from the project’s engagement approach and pilot activities and translate them into policy recommendations that will actively support the widespread adoption […]

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