| 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 light […]

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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 today, […]

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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 social […]

| 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 of […]

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The UBi Biodiversity Awards Celebrate 10 Pioneer Businesses

The room in Berlin where the UBi Project Awards “The Supply Chain Lives” were announced in November 2023 was filled with biodiversity enthusiasts. An Ulm-based company that produces used clothing containers with green roofs where plants and insects happily co-exist and Berlin’s oldest blacksmith’s shop known for its lilac wood knife handles were among the awardees. The awards celebrated ten medium-sized companies from Germany and Switzerland that are taking a proactive role in integrating biodiversity in their operations and reorganising their supply chain management with biodiversity in mind. Steffi Lemke, German Federal Minister for the Environment, who attended the ceremony, emphasized: […]

| Posted November 29, 2023

Engaging with Stakeholders and Building Capacities for Clean Energy in Southern Africa

The increase of both native and invasive woody species has been an ongoing challenge for countries across Southern Africa. Exacerbated by climate change, invasive bush outcompete other plants in the savanna ecosystem, overcrowding rangelands and competing with livestock for water. While this affects farmlands and rangelands in particular, it also poses threats to the environment, the economy, and society in general. By employing a novel superheated steam (SHS) technology, our SteamBioAfrica (SBA) project is working with key local and international stakeholders to convert the encroaching woody biomass into clean-burning solid biofuel and water. Through targeted training programmes, local micro, small, and […]

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10 National Bioeconomy Hubs Launched as Part of the CEE2ACT Project

To support the development of national bioeconomy strategies, 10 National Bioeconomy Hubs have been launched in countries across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) as part of the CEE2ACT project. The hubs will be key to fostering collaboration between different stakeholders as the involved countries take major steps towards a circular future. The CSCP guides the stakeholder engagement process in the project and supports the target countries in fully establishing their National Bioeconomy Hubs. These hubs, located in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia, represent a crucial move towards empowering CEE countries to develop circular bioeconomy […]

| Posted November 20, 2023

Don’t Miss our CATALYST Event on 29 November 2023: How to Transform Businesses Towards Sustainability

What strategies and interdisciplinary solutions do companies need in order to rethink their traditional ways of doing business? How can new business models with a strong sustainability perspective help companies remain competitive, anticipate challenges, and turn them into opportunities? Moreover, what kind of skills are needed to make such a transformation happen? If you’re interested in finding answers to these questions, don’t miss our international CATALYST project event on 29 November 2023. The event will be a dynamic exploration of the sustainable future of business, with a keynote address by Wayne Visser from the Antwerp Management School. As a leading scholar […]

| Posted November 2, 2023

Young Chefs From Around Germany Meet for Sustainable Cooking Competitions

Potato rösti with beetroot, rich and creamy hummus, and topped with apples and walnuts; pumpkin rye risotto; pierogi with sauerkraut and wild mushrooms – these are some of the dishes that young chefs from around Germany prepared as part of regional cooking competitions organised by our KochCup project. Running ahead of and during the European Men’s Football Championship 2024, the goal of the project is to inspire and help mainstream healthy and sustainable food within the sports realm and beyond. As part of the project, young chefs presented their competing recipes during four preliminary rounds in September and November 2023 in […]

| Posted October 31, 2023

Meet us at the CircularTech Forum in Cologne on 30 November 2023!

Faced with the urgency to make production and consumption more sustainable, major global players have been discussing for years how to increase supply chain transparency, strengthen accountability, and mainstream circular solutions. With the upcoming Digital Product Passport (DPP) the European Union is raising the bar: all product information, from material sourcing through to end-of-cycle recycling, needs to be accessible and transparent. The DPP will be affixed to products in the form of an NFC chip, QR code, or RFID tag that any actor along the chain, be it a manufacturer, retailer, or consumer will be able to access. As such, the […]

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