| Posted June 18, 2020

BOOM Holiday Camps 2020: Registration is Open!

Do you know a teenager or a young adult who is curious about their future career and what it could look like? How will work and life look like in 2030, what are the future jobs and what knowledge and skill sets will be needed? Moreover, how can we shape future careers to be sustainable and therefore meaningful for individuals, society and the environment alike? The CSCP invites teenagers and young adults to join our BOOM holiday camps and explore these questions and more together – registration is open! The first BOOM holiday camp, which focuses on the subject of building […]

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I Am Here to Support Organisations in Adapting Sustainable Digitalisation

Anna, a former project manager in an innovation lab as well as in the fashion industry, will support the team mainly in the area of sustainable digitalisation, with a focus on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). Driven by her passion to combine the digitalisation agenda with sustainability goals, Anna looks forward to generating positive change for society and business alike. Why did you apply to work for the CSCP? Sustainability has always been of high relevance for me personally, which is why at a certain point I also realised that I wanted to make it a focus of my professional work, […]

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The PathoCERT Project: Improving Emergency Responses for More Resilience

Pathogen contamination occurrences are challenging to detect and trace: They can occur anywhere, may be caused by various reasons, and can easily spread through water causing large-scale contaminations. Our new project, PathoCERT (Pathogen Contamination Emergency Response Technologies), which launches in fall 2020, aims to address a key question: What can be done to respond quicker and better to the pathogen contamination events and thus safeguard our health and the environment? Over the years, disruptive events, such as earthquakes, flash-floods, accidents or attacks on our infrastructures have shown us how deeply our security and health can be affected. Most recently, the COVID-19 […]

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CSR.digital Sustainably Competitive Launched

The kick-off event took place online with an exciting agenda including speakers from NRW-based Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs), the NRW Minister for Economy and Digitalisation NRW, Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart as well as digitalisation and sustainability experts. CSR.digital, the first ever Centre for Digital Responsibility in North-Rhein Westphalia (NRW), aims to serve as a hub for addressing important digitalisation aspects within the SME sector in the state. In particular, the project will focus in supporting SMEs to successfully adapt sustainability as part of their digital responsibility strategy and leverage digitalisation to strengthen their resilience. The centre will do so in […]

| Posted June 9, 2020

M4KS Webinar Series: Mastering Interaction and Creativity in Online Meetings

Many of us have been there recently: Online meetings that at some point become impersonal, difficult to follow, and content does not come through as planned. Designing and conducting successful online meetings requires a different set of skills and experiences compared to in-person ones. A webinar series on how to successfully conduct interactive online meetings as part of our Mittelstand 4.0-Kompetenzzentrum eStandards (M4KS) project allowed participants to learn more about strategies and tools aimed at making remote collaborating more efficient, and thus strengthening businesses’ resilience. The webinar series covered meeting formats such classic webinars with presentations and Q&A sessions, more complex and […]

| Posted May 13, 2020

Dialogue Forum: Watch 10 Video Pitches on How to Further Reduce Food Waste

Think of a nice, green head of lettuce somewhere in a field. Upon harvesting it was fresh, but after storing and transportation, chances are by the time you pass it at your local supermarket, it has dehydrated, changed color and, ultimately, deteriorated in taste. The once-upon-a-time green lettuce would then land where it shouldn’t: in the bin, along with roughly 45 % of the entire fruit and vegetable production that is wasted in the supply chain alone. There are ways to stop this: ‘dry misting’ to keep fruit and vegetable hydrated is one of them – watch 10 ideas pitched by […]

| Posted May 4, 2020

Bio-based Material of the Year 2020

The innovation award “Bio-based Material of the Year” will be granted to the bio-based chemicals and materials industry to honour the most distinctive new materials and products in the field. This year, six contenders out of seventeen applications have made it to the short-list. The three winners will be selected by the participants of the “13th International Conference on Bio-based Materials”, which will be held online during 12-14 May 2020. The list of the six finalists includes: Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC (DE): BioORMOCER® – functional barrier coatings Huhtamaki Lurgan (UK/FI): Fresh – biodegradable ready meal packaging LAM’ON (BG): Biodegradable […]

| Posted April 29, 2020

Watch our Webinar: Circular Economy on the City Level

Over 100 participants joined the webinar which sparked interesting discussions about smart and efficient ways of leveraging the potential of cities and municipal utilities in the transition towards more circularity. The panel of experts also called for building new alliances and networks to support this transformation. Watch the 90 minute Circular Economy on the City Level webinar to find out more about local perspectives on circular economy. The speaker slides are available here. Agenda and speakers: Welcome Michael Kuhndt, Director of the CSCP Alexander Bonde, Secretary General of the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU) Circular Economy as European priority – the new […]

| Posted April 8, 2020

The Sustainable Chemicals Management Project Has Launched

How could a more sustainable management of chemicals look like at an international level? What type of framework needs to be developed to support companies and governments to achieve this goal? Moreover, what indicators and milestones should be in place in order to monitor the process in easy and effective ways? The newly launched project, Sustainable Chemicals Management, aims to answer these questions with a concise guideline. The project looks to address challenges such as the lack of transparency regarding chemical substances across the lifecycle of products or the absence of clear regulation concerning hazardous substances. The Sustainable Chemicals Management project […]

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INHERIT Project Results: Solutions Towards the ‘Triple-Win’ – Restore the Environment, Promote Health and Health Equity

For future generations to inherit a sustainable planet, it is crucial that we protect the environment in ways that promote health and reduce inequities for people. The Horizon 2020 research project INHERIT (INter-sectoral Health and Environment Research for InnovaTion) has designed intersectoral initiatives to achieve a triple-win. The CSCP contributed to the 4-year research project (2016-2019) INHERIT through several multi-stakeholder, co-creation and participatory activities: Reaching the Triple-win: The CSCP created four future scenarios, which show European societies where healthy, sustainable and equitable lifestyles have been adopted. The INHERIT positive scenarios publication and videos give us a glimpse into the future. In […]

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