| Posted September 19, 2022

“Understanding Social Norms Holds the Key to Sustainable Consumption”

For the Argentinian psychologist, Maria Victoria Ortiz understanding social dilemmas and what hinders or propels cooperation in society is an ongoing fascination. Her doctoral research focuses on consumption behaviours and lifestyles and how those could hold the key to counter an aggravating climate crisis. Ortiz, who is a Green Talents awardee, uses an experimental climate game approach to understand the (dis)connection from present to future generations. She chose the CSCP for her Green Talent research stay, engaging closely with our Sustainable Lifestyles (SL) Team. The research stay abroad is a key element of the Green Talent Programme. How did you […]

| Posted September 15, 2022

CHORIZO: Our New Horizon Europe Project to Tackle Food Loss and Waste Through Social Norms

The three-year CHORIZO project will take an innovative approach to tackling food loss and waste through gathering insights on social norms in a range of food-related settings and generating effective ways to apply behaviour change techniques in six real-life case study contexts. Food loss and waste (FLW) is a topic with far-reaching consequences across the spectrum of economic, environmental and social spheres. It’s also a topic that involves a range of different actors from agriculture through to end consumers. While behaviour change around FLW has attracted a lot of attention for a number of years, the CHORIZO project, which stands […]

| Posted September 14, 2022

Sustainable Digitalisation as a Competitive Advantage for SMEs: Join our CSR.digital Event on 20 October 2022!

Since 2020, the CSR.digital project has been working with entrepreneurs in North Rhein-Westphalia, Germany (NRW) to develop a wide range of ideas and strategies on how to implement the twin transformation to a digital and sustainable economy. On 20 October 2022, the project team along with Mona Neubaur, NRW Minister of Economic Affairs, will share key learnings and how those could benefit other companies to transform. At the event, you will learn first-hand from innovative companies what competitive advantages a sustainable orientation of your digital strategy can bring and how digital technologies can practically support the implementation of mega trends […]

| Posted September 13, 2022

Flexible Circular Plastics: Join Our Circular Week Webinar on 5 October!

Durable, light, low-cost and with good barrier properties – flexible plastics are a leading material in packaging applications in consumer goods, construction, and agriculture. However, their reuse potential is limited, making flexible plastics a drain on Europe’s resources and a serious pollution threat. This is why innovative solutions are needed in order to keep them in the loop for as long as possible. As part of the Circular Week 2022, our session “Flexible Plastics in Europe’s Circular Economy” gives an overview of the current management practices as well as viewpoints to increase circularity of flexible plastics on a European scale […]

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HOOP Lighthouse Cities Share Experiences on Circular Bioeconomy

Biowaste management practices vary greatly around Europe. As part of our HOOP project, stakeholders from ten European cities and regions visited Münster, Germany and Almere, in the Netherlands to learn more from these two frontrunner cities. The inaugural study tour links to the project’s overall aim to improve urban biowaste management practices, such as separate collection and valorisation. A central goal of the tour was to foster cross-city learning: “It’s not only really important to develop tools to foster European circular bio-economy, you also have to guarantee that other parties across Europe or worldwide have the opportunity to understand what […]

| Posted September 9, 2022

Sustainability Hacks To Go: How Our PERETO Project is Promoting Sustainable Consumption in Kyrgyzstan

Studies suggest that consumers are responsible for as much as 60-70 % of all direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions*, pointing to an urgent need to change consumption habits and endorse more sustainable lifestyles. Through an awareness-raising campaign, our PERETO project is inspiring Kyrgyz citizens as well as international tourists to consume in more sustainable ways. PERETO, which stands for ‘Promotion of Energy Security and Sustainable Growth Through Increased Energy and Resource Efficiency (ERE) in Tourism SMEs in Kyrgyzstan,‘ aims to support the advancement of sustainable production and consumption (SCP) practices and energy and resource efficiency (ERE) among SMEs in […]

| Posted September 8, 2022

Digital with Purpose: Meet us at the Global Summit on 27 September in Lisbon!

Our world is becoming increasingly digital, most recently also in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. Against this backdrop, it is relevant to ask: how can our collective action be steered so that we create more value through digital solutions? The Digital with Purpose Global Summit 2022 is bringing global tech leaders and key actors in one place to strengthen their commitment to innovate and implement solutions for a sustainable and inclusive future. “We are creating a fast-paced movement to deliver actionable and measurable results in line with the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals – where technology, innovation and collaboration […]

| Posted September 6, 2022

Join Our #EUCircularTalk on 15 September 2022: 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? the CSCP will bring together experts and stakeholders to discuss these questions and share ideas on next steps. Changes in consumption behaviours and lifestyles are increasingly recognised as one of the key levers for enabling the transition to […]

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Meet us at the Circular Economy Hotspot in Bottrop on 14 September 2022!

From 12 to 14 September 2022, the international Circular Economy Hotspot will take place in the former mining town and current Innovation City of Bottrop, Germany. On three event days, the topics of circular economy, resource conservation and increasing efficiency will be highlighted in order to accelerate the transformation towards the circular economy and to find innovative solutions.  On 14 September 2022, the CSCP executive director, Michael Kuhndt will be part of a panel discussion on the topic of „Exploring Enabling Drivers for a Circular Economy Transformation”. The discussion will look into questions such as what are the insights of […]

| Posted September 1, 2022

Increasing Impact Through Behavioural Know-How: The Example of Our weiter_wirken Programme

After a four-month journey during which 20 representatives of civil society organisations (CSOs) learned, gained experience and exchanged ideas on the topic of behaviour change, they successfully completed our capacity building programme weiter_wirken. During the course of the programme the group learned to facilitate and enable behaviour change in their projects and by involving relevant stakeholders. In the last workshop the focus was on collaboration and impact assessment as key elements of successful sustainability projects. The participants, who are representatives of sustainability and One World projects in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), brought their own projects into the training programme and had […]

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