| Posted November 8, 2022

The LIKE A PRO Project Kicks Off: Mainstreaming Alternative Protein Products Across Europe

Europeans have never been more interested in alternative protein foods*. Such pull is an excellent opportunity to shift toward more sustainable diets, in line with the European Green Deal and the Farm to Fork Strategy. Despite increasing interest on more sustainable alternatives, animal-based products still make up for almost 70% of the Europeans’ protein intake, with 95% of them consuming animal-based products on a daily basis.** Our LIKE A PRO project aims to accelerate the shift toward and normalise healthier and more sustainable dietary patterns by diversifying and increasing the availability, accessibility and uptake of alternative sources of protein and […]

| Posted October 25, 2022

How Digital Tools Can Help You Reduce Your Footprint: Test Our PSL Tool on 9 November 2022 in Solingen!

Breaking up with old routines or endorsing high-impact changes is not always a straightforward process. This is why options for sustainable behaviour should be flexible enough to fit the reality of life and the respective life phases of different people – what is difficult for one might be easy for another, and opposite. Over the course of the past months, our PSLifestyle project has looked closely into questions such as, how can citizens be encouraged to reduce their personal carbon footprint through exemplary actions for a sustainable everyday life? How should these actions be formulated?  Which actions overlap or are […]

| Posted October 24, 2022

Closing the Gap Between Circularity and Sustainability with Our ‘sustainable.circular’ Programme

Think of the following: a product might be made of 100 % recycled materials, but if its production was energy intensive, the social aspects were neglected in the value chain, and the product itself has a high carbon emission during the use phase, it will inevitably fall short of being sustainable as well. The Circular Economy is not sustainable by default. CSCP’s new sustainable.circular programme was developed with this core idea in mind: to ensure that circular economy efforts are guided by a clear objective to achieve greater sustainability. We are proud to have our first round of the programme […]

| Posted October 18, 2022

Watch the Recording of our #EUCircularTalk: Accelerating Circular Behaviours – How Can Digitalisation Help Us?

What are the missing pieces in the puzzle in order to make circularity the norm among consumers in Europe? What can stakeholders such as retailers, city representatives, policymakers, and civil society organisations (CSOs) do to enable circular behaviours among consumers? How can digitalisation play a supporting role in this process? At the #EUCircularTalk Accelerating Circular Behaviours – How Can Digitalisation Help Us?, held in September 2022, the CSCP brought together experts and stakeholders to discuss these questions and share insights on next steps. Did you miss the event? Watch the recording now! The talk focused in particular on the opportunities […]

| Posted October 5, 2022

Join Us at Our Event: Go for Digital – Success With eStandards on 24 October

The Competence Centre eStandards hosts an event to highlight the accomplishments of the last 5 years. Learn about the success strategies of our project’s participating companies and exchange ideas in our “Olympic village”, e.g. on the shortage of skilled workers, sustainable digitalisation, IT security or funding opportunities. In October, milestones of the project will be celebrated live in Cologne. Company representatives, all project partners and representatives of the ministries will come together for the occasion on October 24. The aim of the CSCP’s work in the Competence Centre eStandards project in the last five years was to show SMEs new […]

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Join our Regional Design Thinking Workshop to Develop Products from “Waste” on 26 October

Companies from the Bergisches Städtedreieck, Wuppertal, Remscheid und Solingen in Germany are invited to join this regional design thinking workshop to develop new products from “waste” materials at the Gläserne Werkstatt in Solingen on October 26, 2022. The CSCP’s project Gläserne Werkstatt partners up with the project InSym to offer this hands-on workshop. As a place for quality and sustainability in the Bergisches Städtedreieck, the Gläserne Werkstatt also stands for innovative thinking of new products and for the networking of a wide variety of players to open up new paths. In this context, the design of products and services plays […]

| Posted September 22, 2022

Upskilling and Reskilling: How the CATALYST Project Will Support SMEs to Transform

Just around one percent of German companies are not a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME). With the necessary skills, SMEs can play a decisive role in shaping Europe’s sustainable future. But, how can they prepare their workforces for this? On 19 and 20 September, 16 project partners from 5 European countries came together in Skopje, North Macedonia, to launch the Catalyst project. The project goal: to make the European workforce fit for the future! At the the kick-off, the project lead Prof. Angelina Taneva-Veshoska from the North Macedonian Institute for Research in Environment, Civil Engineering and Energy (IECE) stressed the […]

| Posted September 20, 2022

Toward a European Bioeconomy: Don’t Miss Our Scalibur Project Final Event on 19 October 2022!

Rethinking municipal solid waste management is a central element in the transition to a circular and bio-economy. Yet, this remains a significant challenge for many European cities. A successful implementation of a circular and bio-economy needs to account for a reduction in the amount of (bio)waste deposited in landfills while enhancing the share of (bio)waste that can be returned to the system after recycling. In the course of four years, the SCALIBUR project worked together with a wide array of stakeholders to inspire a revolution in urban (bio)waste recycling in Europe. Leading waste management companies, technology developers and research organisations […]

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“We Need to Come Together Around Purpose!”

Alexander Mannweiler has joined the CSCP as Senior Project Manager in the Sustainable Infrastructure, Products, and Services (SIPS) team. Currently, his focus is on promoting awareness for biodiversity in businesses and business associations in Germany as part of the UBi (Business & Biodiversity) project. In this interview, he shares his ideas on how to make positive change happen. How do you think you can make a positive change as part of the CSCP? Sustainability is certainly a complex topic, that’s why it often gets ‘stuck’ in many organisations. I believe that with a systematic and holistic approach to sustainability we […]

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Join our Digital Dialogue: How New Legislation Can Help Preserve Biodiversity & What This Means for Businesses

For many companies, the environmental and social impact of their supply chains is significantly higher than the impact of their operational business. As of 2023, the German Supply Chain Sourcing Act and the EU Code of Conduct for Responsible Business and Marketing Practices will require companies to take responsibility for their supply chains. Our UBi (Business & Biodiversity) project Digital Dialogue looks into one key question: How can companies use this as a chance to rethink their supply chains from a biodiversity perspective and what is the added value for them? Supply chains that focus on biodiversity are more resilient […]

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