| Posted March 6, 2024

Convenient Instead of Complicated: How to Make Reusable Packaging an Easy Choice for Consumers

Whether it’s a coffee to go or a veggie bowl for lunch at the office – takeaway services are an everyday convenience for many people. However, the prevalence of disposable packaging for takeaway food and drinks has a significant impact on the environment. According to the German Packaging Act, all companies that offer takeaway food and drinks are obliged to offer their customers a reusable alternative. Several years after the new law came into force, reusable packaging is still not being used sufficiently. The Digital Centre WertNetzWerke is working together with companies and relevant stakeholders to overcome this hurdle. Convenient instead […]

| Posted March 5, 2024

Supporting IT Companies to Become Sustainability Accelerators

The European Union has committed to mobilise at least 1 trillion Euros in sustainable investments until 2030 to achieve the goals set by the European Green Deal. This sends a strong signal that we have entered a phase of major economic transformation to reconcile economic activity with the environmental boundaries of our planet and to achieve progress on the societal challenges we face. As the circular transition gets into full swing, many businesses opportunities arise. How can German small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) operating in the Information Technology (IT) sector leverage this market development and act as transformation accelerators and multipliers? […]

| Posted February 28, 2024

The CSCP Partners Up with X-Creation to Accelerate Sustainable Innovation

Climate change, biodiversity loss, inequalities within and among countries – these are only a few of the challenges that the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to tackle. However, achieving the 17 ambitious goals requires bold and immediate action. We are happy to announce our partnership with X-Creation to connect and collaborate toward addressing current critical challenges aligned with the SDGs. X-Creation is a curated community and service that accelerates sustainable innovation. By connecting and facilitating a tightly curated and highly diverse group of practitioners from companies, scientific institutions, non-profits, and public organisations, X-Creation enables the co-creation of sustainable innovations […]

| Posted February 19, 2024

The CARE Project Kicks-Off: Inspiring and Enabling Circular Lifestyles

From better meal planning and food storage to thoughtful shopping and the repairing of old garments, the sum of our individual actions can hold the key to greater sustainability on a systemic level. In our CARE project, we have joined hands with eleven partner organisations to inspire and enable 100 households across Europe to endorse and implement circularity on a daily basis. The project, which kicked-off in January 2024 in Tampere, Finland will focus on how households can most easily and effectively use food and clothing in a circular way. Through close collaboration with individuals, families, and communities, the project aims […]

| 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 the […]

| 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 in […]

| 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, I […]

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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 Duisburg […]

| 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 courses […]

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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 and […]

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