| Posted March 1, 2023

New Project Launched to Enable the Twin Transformation for German IT SMEs

The transformation toward greater sustainability through digitalisation offers businesses the opportunity to stay competitive and become more resilient while providing innovative solutions for major societal challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, waste and pollution. However, companies such as small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face many internal and external barriers that inhibit their potential when it comes to engaging in the twin sustainable-digital transformation. This includes limited financial and human resources, but also knowledge gaps on how to use digital technologies to achieve more sustainability while making digitalisation more sustainable itself. Our new project “ITM Twin Transformation” (Der deutsche IT-Mittelstand: […]

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Sustainable & Digital into the Future – Don’t Miss Our Workshop Series 2 March – 4 May 2023!

Are you a German small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) interested in sustainable business and would like to advance the topic? In a series of nine workshops, as part of our WertNetzWerke competence centre, we dive deep into specific aspects of how to integrate sustainability into the day-to-day business through digital technologies. Don’t miss it – from 2 March to 4 May 2023! WertNetzWerke operates under the umbrella of Mittelstand Digital, a network of competence centres funded by the German government to support digitalisation in SMEs. For the workshop series, WertNetzWerke teams-up with other competence centres to shed light on various […]

| Posted February 22, 2023

The GOALAN Project Trained 146 Kenyan Farmers on Sustainable Production and Consumption Practices

The lake Naivasha basin in Kenya acts as a lifeline for many local communities; yet it faces serious challenges, including unsustainable agriculture and land use as well as woodland destruction. Such practices threaten the basin’s ecosystems, reduce the quality and quantity of water, and endanger its ability to sustain livelihoods. Our GOALAN project, which ran from January 2018 to December 2022, aimed at making the horticultural sector in the Lake Naivasha Basin more profitable for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) through sustainable consumption and production (SCP). The project fostered the uptake of SCP practices and sustainable farming techniques which […]

| Posted February 21, 2023

How Our CHORIZO Project Aims To Shift Social Norms Toward Less Food Waste

As a set of rules commonly accepted by groups, social norms play a key role in guiding human behaviour. This is why shifting social norms can be a major lever toward better appreciation of food in society. Our three-year CHORIZO project takes an innovative approach to tackling the issue of food loss and waste through gathering insights on social norms in a range of food-related settings and generating effective ways to apply the behaviour change technique in six real-life case study contexts. “CHORIZO wants to close a knowledge gap by showcasing how social norms can be a tool to increase […]

| Posted February 13, 2023

On the Road to Circular Home Furnishing With IKEA Germany

IKEA, a global leader in the home furnishing retail market aims to become circular by 2030. Together with the CSCP, IKEA Germany took a deeper look at the national market for circular business. What has begun decades ago as a pioneer journey based on the idea of using and reusing resources as often, in as many ways, and for as long as possible, has grown into a leading vision of production and consumption: the Circular Economy. The EU Commission is pushing for more circularity through comprehensive policy packages like the Circular Economy Action Plan and by setting incentives for investors […]

| Posted February 8, 2023

Accelerating Circular Behaviours: Join Our Workshop at the Circular Economy Stakeholder Conference on 28 February 2023!

Despite the great potential of the Circular Economy to achieve sustainability goals, its share in the global economy is only about 7.2% so far (Circularity Gap 2023). Consumers can help change this trend if they are empowered and enabled accordingly. On 28 February 2023, the CSCP joins businesses, civil society organisations (CSOs), and researchers to discuss how we can make circular consumer behaviour a reality with the support of digital tools. The workshop “Accelerating Circular Behaviours: How Can Digitalisation Help Us?” will be hosted by the CSCP within the framework of the Annual Conference of the European Circular Economy Stakeholder […]

| Posted February 1, 2023

Addressing Food Waste: CSCP Joins the European Consumer Food Waste Forum

Data shows that the highest share of food waste is generated at the consumption stage, including households and food services such as school, hospital, or company canteens. Behavioural factors are among the leading causes of food waste at the consumer level. A group of multi-disciplinary researchers and practitioners from Europe are working together to collect evidence on these topics, but also find solutions and develop tools to help reduce consumer food waste. Together, they represent the European Consumer Food Waste Forum, set up by the Joint Research Centre in collaboration with DG SANTE, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Health and […]

| Posted January 31, 2023

The CE-RISE Project Has Kicked-Off With Circular Economy and Digitalisation at its Core

In January 2023, the CSCP and 28 projects partners from 12 European countries came together in Dublin, Ireland, to kick-off the Circular Economy Resource Information System (CE-RISE) project. In line with the European Green Deal, which aims for net-zero emissions by 2050, the main objective of the project is to minimise the loss of secondary raw materials (SRM) and optimise their reuse within value chains. It will do so by developing and piloting an integrated framework and resource information system. The information system will identify optimal solutions for the effective reuse, recovery, and recycling (RE) of materials: by defining a […]

| Posted January 30, 2023

Join Us at the Water Projects Europe Community of Practice Meeting on 14 February 2023!

When an emergency situation occurs, first responders, law enforcement, and emergency medical services are the first to arrive on the scene. Behind the scene, a whole chain of additional relevant actors need to be involved and aligned. Our PathoCERT project, which focuses on increasing capacities of first responders in cases of waterborne pathogen emergencies, takes a Communities of Practice (CoP) approach to bring all stakeholders together and enable collaboration. At the Water Projects Europe 2023 event, PathoCERT joins two other innovative European projects utilising Communities of Practices as a multi-stakeholder engagement, collaboration, and co-creation format. The goal of the event […]

| Posted January 26, 2023

The Final Report of the Dialogue Forum Highlights Companies’ Commitment and Engagement to Reduce Food Waste

From 2019 to 2022, the CSCP coordinated and moderated the Dialogue Forum for the Reduction of Food Waste in Wholesale and Retail in Germany (HandelsforumRVL). In support of the German government’s goal to significantly reduce food waste along the supply chain by 2030, the Dialogue Forum had a mandate to map the reduction of food waste, set relevant targets up to 2030, develop suitable formats for implementation and monitoring, and to agree on these in the form of a target agreement. The final report reviews the achievements of the 23 involved companies, including the drafting of an ambitious target agreement […]

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