| Posted November 2, 2021

A New Start for the City of Solingen: The “Gläserne Werkstatt” Opens Its Doors

Located at the heart of the Solingen city centre, the Gläserne Werkstatt is a showcase and lively marketplace for high-quality and sustainable products and services developed and produced in the region. In what is still an ongoing construction site, first events are running and the project calls on companies and manufacturers to promote their sustainable products in the Gläserne Werkstatt spaces. Each Thursday in 2021, the “Construction Site Truck” (Bau-Wagen), will give visitors the chance to get inspired and be informed about interesting, innovative, and sustainable products and services from Solingen and its surrounding area. The team will be on the […]

| Posted October 6, 2021

How Can Industrial Digitalisation Enable More Sustainability? – Join Us and Let’s Exchange at this Year’s G-STIC Conference on 26 October 2021!

Industry 4.0 holds a great potential to reduce the environmental impact of our production systems and enable the Circular Economy. The session “Paving the twin transition road” at the Global Sustainable Technology & Innovation Community (G-STIC) conference during the World Expo Dubai 2021 will bring together experts and stakeholders to jointly reflect and discuss how such a transition could look like and how to accelerate it. A recent study for the European Environmental Agency (EEA) conducted by the European Topic Centre on Waste and Materials in a Green Economy (ETC/WMGE)’s partners Wuppertal Institute, VITO, VTT and the CSCP analyses the opportunities […]

| Posted September 30, 2021

We Need More Sustainability to Alleviate Social Injustices

Campaigning for regenerative cities, supporting migrant entrepreneurship in Malta, or managing EU funds for a cleaner Baltic Sea – a multifaceted engagement for more sustainability sits at the core of Fiona Woo’s résumé. Her dream project: to co-design urban spaces together with local residents and businesses that keep people at the centre. Learn more about the new CSCP project manager in her own words! How did you come about to join the CSCP? Since my very first internship in the field of renewable energy, it has been important for me to find meaning in my work and to believe that I […]

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“Germany Saves Food” Action Week – Join Our Webinar on AI Solutions for Less Food Waste on 22 October 2021!

What innovative solutions could help reduce food losses and waste at the interfaces between sectors? How can artificial intelligence (AI) add value, what are the risks involved and how can these be mitigated? As part of the national action week Germany Saves Food, the CSCP and its partners will host an online webinar to explore these questions with actors across the food supply chain and the scientific community. In order to look at practical solutions for the reduction of food losses and waste at the interfaces of primary production and manufacturing with retail and wholesale, the webinar is co-organised by all […]

| Posted September 29, 2021

Exploring the Social Impacts of the Circular Economy – Meet us at the Circular Week on 14 & 15 October 2021!

We hear a lot about the economic and environmental benefits of the circular economy, but what about the social benefits? How are the livelihoods and well-being of specific communities affected by the transition? What about social norms, consumer behaviour and the social trade-offs that lie at the heart of the circular economy? At the Electronics Club of the CSCP’s Consumer Insight Action Panel (CIAP) initiative we are looking for pathways that address social implications in the circularity journey. Both the EU Green Deal and the Circular Economy Action Plan put the stress on fairness and inclusion as important hallmarks for Europe’s […]

| Posted September 27, 2021

Enabling SMEs to Approach Digitalisation with Sustainability Lenses

Collaboration is key to building sustainable businesses that leverage the full power of digitalisation processes and tools. The CSCP trained representatives of the Mittelstand Digital competence centres on how to inspire and empower small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to collaborate for sustainable digitalisation. As part of Mittlestand Digital, 26 competence centres operate all over Germany. The CSCP co-leads the Competence Centre eStandards with a strong focus on the intersection between sustainability and digitalisation. As a first step, the training module focused on updating and advancing the participants’ understanding of digitalisation and sustainability as two strongly interrelated topics. Then, the participants were […]

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Watch Our Competence Centre eStandards Video: Sustainable Digitalisation and the Circular Economy

The intersection between digitalisation and sustainability is the centre of many discussions. While there seems to be a consensus on the need to think of the two as complementary and intertwined, it is less clear what this means for specific actors or how it can be implemented in practice. It all becomes even more complex when additional topics such as the circular economy come into play. In this short video, Patrik Eisenhauer from the CSCP and Bettina Bartz, leader of Competence Centre eStandards explain how sustainable digitalisation can enable sustainable business. The focus of the video are small and medium-sized enterprises […]

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From Take-Back Schemes to Repairability Indices: Testing Circular Economy Solutions for Electronics

What do consumers do with their electronic gadgets once they no longer use them? Store them in a drawer? How can we empower and enable consumers to bring their old gadgets back to the cycle? As part of the Consumer Insight Action Panel (CIAP), we have been working with three organisations that are on a journey to test circular electronics interventions in practice. The organisations, who are members of the CIAP Electronics Club, have been working with the CSCP to gather insights on particular consumer behaviours related to their contexts and from that develop interventions and test them in the coming […]

| Posted September 22, 2021

One Step Closer to Sustainable Food Systems

As the VALUMICS project comes to its end, the project team, partners and other stakeholders, came together to share and reflect on four years of joint work. The final event held in September 2021 was an opportunity to think about how to upscale the positive impact of VALUMICS beyond the project’s life cycle. Throughout the last four years, the VALUMICS project has worked toward providing European decision makers with approaches and tools to evaluate the impact of policies and strategies for enhancing the resilience, integrity and sustainability of food value chains in Europe. It took a holistic and causality-based system approach […]

| Posted September 20, 2021

Making Sustainable Food Systems the Norm: Watch Our VALUMICS Video!

Food is an essential part of our lives. Despite improvements in the quality and variety of food available to Europeans, consumption patterns still have a negative impact on the environment, the climate, and our health. Current food consumption is responsible for at least 25% of the overall carbon footprint per capita and unfair trading practices lead to economic and social imbalances. More than ever we need to take action and move toward healthier and more sustainable food systems. To accelerate this transition, it is crucial to better understand the context and motivations behind consumer behaviour and how this may be addressed […]

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