| Posted April 8, 2020

AoC Catalyst: Accelerating the Integration of Behavior Change Know-How in the Work of NGOs

The Catalyst is a special programme offered by the Academy of Change (AoC), aimed at supporting non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to undertake organisational change by providing tailor-made tools and supporting them in turning sustainable behaviour change knowledge into an asset for their daily work. The Catalyst aims to reach this goal through the following: Provide NGOs with customized support and tools to address their needs, both content- and strategy-wise, to integrate behavioural knowledge within their strategies and activities. Enable NGOs to design and implement behaviour change pilot interventions, alone or in collaboration with other Catalyst peers, in order to have first-hand experience […]

| Posted April 7, 2020

PERETO: Supporting Sustainable Tourism in Kyrgyzstan

Tourism is a key driver for the Kyrgyz economy and a national priority sector. However, hotels, restaurants and cafes (HoReCa), as main growth generators are faced with numerous serious challenges, including unreliable energy and water supply. Regular power blackouts outside major cities disrupt business operations and incur additional costs to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from the tourism branch. The PERETO project aims to work with SMEs from this sector as well as the consumers to promote production and consumption practices that lead to a more sustainable growth. PERETO, which stands for ‘Promotion of Energy Security and Sustainable Growth Through Increased […]

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Meet Flandra Syla-Beqiri, the New CSCP Communication Expert

Flandra, a former journalist and academic researcher, will support the communication team in telling relevant sustainability stories in ways that generate great impact. Why did you apply to work for the CSCP? Communication, and the complex journey a simple message undergoes, has always fascinated me. It is inherent, probably, for a communications professional to think of communication as essential in just about any topic field. However, when it comes to sustainability, I truly believe that a successful and systemic shift towards more sustainability is largely a matter of how sustainability is made sense of. That is, how complex and intertwined topics […]

| Posted April 2, 2020

CSR.digital – Sustainably Competitive Kicks-Off on 2 July 2020

How can Small and Medium-Sized enterprises (SMEs) strengthen their resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic and exercise responsible leadership after the crisis? What leverages can digitalisation offer with respect to this? Moreover, how can SMEs successfully adapt sustainability as part of their digital responsibility strategy? The first-ever Centre for Digital Responsibility in North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW), which goes by the name CSR.digital aims to answer these questions collaboratively with economic, social and civic actors in the state. CSR.digital – Sustainably Competitive is a collaboration between the CSCP and its networking partners, the Chamber of Industry and Commerce North Rhine-Westphalia and Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf. […]

| Posted April 1, 2020

Rethinking Packaging From the Consumer’s Perspective

Despite growing consensus about scaling-up sustainable food packaging and promoting un-packaged food, consumer perspectives on these topics often remain on the sidelines. For example, how do contextual circumstances influence consumers’ attitudes about unpackaged food? What if consumers are guided by conventional packaging norms and prefer laminated paper over highly recyclable monoplastic packaging? What happens if despite sustainable packaging, consumers do not sort trash appropriately and, quite importantly, why do they lack the incentives to do that? The newly established Club for Sustainable Packaging Solutions (Club für Nachhaltige Verpackungslösungen) puts the focus on consumer behavioural change as key towards more sustainability. The […]

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The CSCP Kicked-Off “Charter for Sustainable Digitalisation” in Collaboration With DBU

How can digitalisation help companies become more sustainable, and in turn how can digitalisation itself become more sustainable in the process? These questions are at the heart of the ‘Charter for Sustainable Digitalisation’, the project that kicked-off in March 2020 –  its goal, creating a comprehensive and concise framework that helps companies design sustainable digitalisation processes. The questions that companies have to face when it comes to digitalisation are manifold: What does digitalisation mean for social responsibility and the environmental impact of a company? How can a company contribute to a good life for its customers through digital means, while at […]

| Posted March 30, 2020

The CSCP Supports Solingen to Revitalise its City Centre by Boosting Sustainable Manufacturing in “Gläserne Werkstatt”

The city of Solingen has a clear and ambitious goal: revitalise the inner city by boosting manufacturing. Think of a large and dusty retail property totally reinvented: from a forgotten vacant location to a space where manufacturers can sell their products under a common roof and make manufacturing more tangible to the wider public. The “Urban Production in the ‘Bergisches Land’ Triangle – Competiveness, Innovation and City Quarter Development” which is an umbrella project for eight smaller projects, kicked-off in early March 2020. Through the “Gläserne Werkstatt” project, which the CSCP supports, the city of Solingen plans to specifically promote the […]

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‘weiter_wirken’ Our New Programme on Fostering Sustainable Behaviour for Regional NGOs

Changing behaviours towards greater sustainability is an important, but also very complex task. It requires not only challenging existing belief systems and practices, but also coming up with creative ways to introduce and promote more sustainable ones. ‘weiter_wirken – Nachhaltigkeit Erfolgreich Vermitteln’ (Communicating Sustainability Successfully) takes the model of our Academy of Change and brings it into the context of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). Through a series of workshops, NGO representatives who work in fostering ecological and social sustainability will be trained how to design and communicate their projects most effectively. To do so, the training program offers participants with a nuanced […]

| Posted March 25, 2020

REIF Project on Intelligent Food Chains Has Kicked-Off

Food industry is complex: product safety requirements are strict, forecasts for agricultural outcome are unreliable, and consumption trends can change quickly. In Germany, vast quantities of food, amounting for up to 11 million tons, get lost during the production process alone. Smart food chains, that reduce waste and help preserve the eco-system, are needed more than ever. To address this pressing need, the search for Resource-Efficient, Economic and Intelligent Food Chain (REIF), has officially started. In the course of the next three years, the REIF project team will identify approaches and create concepts to reduce food waste based on Artificial Intelligence […]

| Posted March 24, 2020

Meet Christian Malarciuc, New Project Manager in the Sustainable Lifestyles (SL) Team

Christian, a former market researcher, will support the CSCP in projects focusing on behaviour change and will work closely with NGOs and businesses in fostering more sustainable lifestyle practices. Why did you want to work for the CSCP? As someone who has always been interested in both the theoretical as well as practical underpinnings of sustainability issues, I was very much drawn to the CSCP’s position as a Think and Do tank. Beyond this, what really appealed to me was the internationality of the team and diversity of projects as I studied in different countries and enjoy delving into different topic […]

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