| 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 workshops […]

| 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 or […]

| 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 jointly […]

| Posted March 21, 2023

Did You Miss Our Workshop “Accelerating Circular Behaviours: How Can Digitalisation Help Us?” – Watch the Recording Now!

Are you a business trying to come up with a product-as-a-service business model or looking for ways to engage your consumers to return old products? Are you keen on collaborating with other stakeholders that can support you address challenges and find solutions? At our workshop “Accelerating Circular Behaviours: How Can Digitalisation Help Us?” as part of the Annual Conference of the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform (ECESP) we discussed all these aspects. Did you miss it? Watch the recording now! Human behaviour is an important ingredient for a functioning Circular Economy. For example, what determines if recycling or take-back schemes are […]

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“It is our Task to Face Social and Environmental Needs Responsibly!” – Interview with Senior Project Manager Victoria Funk

Victoria Funk is passionate about empowering businesses and supporting them on their transformation journey toward a sustainable future. In her new role as a CSCP Senior Project Manager, she brings on board years of experience in leading large interdisciplinary global projects in the context of digital transformation and business development. Get to know her in this interview! How did your professional journey cross paths with the CSCP? After ten years in the fashion industry, I decided to leave the private sector behind to dedicate my passion and energy to an organisation that adds true value to our society in a more […]

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Meet Us at the Civil Society Conference on Sustainability Policy in NRW on 24 March 2023!

Between insights, strategy, and legal and regulatory frameworks, pressure is mounting for an action-oriented sustainability policy in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany. On 24 March 2023, civil society representatives from the NRW Civil Society Forum on Sustainability will provide topic-specific insights into current sustainability policy after more than 250 days of the governing coalition between the Christian Democrats and the Green Party. Key topics of discussion will include: How can a more decisive sustainability policy in NRW be promoted? Which impact-oriented strategies are needed? What changes in the legal and regulatory framework are needed to accelerate the implementation of […]

| Posted March 20, 2023

“We Can Turn Digitalisation into a Key Driver for Sustainable Business!” – Interview with Senior Consultant Milon Gupta

Milon Gupta has joined the CSCP as a Senior Consultant with a focus on the twin sustainable digital transformation. In this interview, he shares his thoughts on the potential of this transformation toward a circular and regenerative economy. How does your past experience relate to the work we do at the CSCP? For more than 20 years, I worked in the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector as a marketing manager. I have participated in many European ICT innovation projects and had the opportunity to learn about the vast potential of technologies like artificial Intelligence, augmented reality, and advanced mobile networks. […]

| Posted March 16, 2023

The CSR.digital Handbook Presents Formats & Tools for the Sustainable Digital Transformation in SMEs

As a mega trend of our time, digitalisation is a topic that companies cannot afford to avoid: whether it is a matter of implementing Circular Economy, designing modern working environments or developing completely new business models. At the same time, all these fields of action can be powerful means toward greater social and environmental sustainability. Competitiveness cannot be achieved without a clear commitment to corporate responsibility and the willingness to prepare for the future by taking smart business decisions today. Many companies, especially those in the small and medium-sized enterprise (SMEs) sector, had to learn such lessons through various crises of […]

| Posted March 15, 2023

The First Round of our sustainable.circular Programme Wraps Up Successfully: Join our Webinar on 29 March 2023 for Key Learnings!

The first round of our sustainable.circular programme, funded by the German Federal Environment Foundation (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt – DBU), aims at German small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). To support them undergo major transformations seamlessly, the programme develops practice-relevant catalogues and checklists for management tools, training formats with a focus on skills, and overall capacity building in order to close the gap between sustainable and circular. Join our webinar on 29 March 2023 for key learnings from the sustainable.circular programme! During the webinar, the project team will present results from three case studies with German SMEs and discuss them in detail with […]

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