| Posted November 20, 2018

Creating Positive Business Impacts on Sustainability – Join Us for Our Workshop on 7 December and Find Out How!

Today, good sustainability performance is commonly associated with having a small footprint. This means a reduction of negative sustainability impacts, such as CO2 emissions, waste of natural resources, poor working conditions, etc. We say: Assessing our footprint is key but there is more to explore! What about the positive impacts we are having on people and the planet? Positive impacts – or in other words handprint – can be generated throughout your whole company. How you can use the handprint analysis will be the central question in this workshop. A brief introduction to the handprint can be found here. To give you some […]

| Posted November 19, 2018

Popup Dialogue-Centre on the Future of Work visits Hamburg on 28 November – 7 December

The Popup Dialogue-Centre “Durchblick” opens its doors for citizens in Hamburg. It is dedicated to the questions and answers on the digitalisation of work. Which technologies will be pioneering in the future and which social and ecological aspects will play a role? What hopes and fears do we associate with digitalisation? In the travelling exhibition, which tours six German cities from October 2018 onward, we present current developments and trends in the world of work and invite you to join us: by participating, asking questions, expressing opinions and criticising – we want to hear your vision for the work of the […]

| Posted November 13, 2018

Future-proof Business Models in the Era of Digitalisation – What Should Your Business Do? Join Our Workshop on 20 November 2018 and Find Out!

Digitalisation is one of the megatrends of our time, and the first order of business is making organisations ready for a future shaped by it. In this interactive workshop, we will discuss the pressing issues that arise due to digitalisation and find solutions that fit your company. With the megatrend, completely new opportunities and challenges arise. For example, it will be easier to produce more efficiently, to market products more effectively and to ensure transparency and sustainability along the entire value chain. At the same time, there are challenges from new (disruptive) competition, matters of data security, work structuring and attracting […]

| Posted October 24, 2018

Popup Dialogue-Centre Shows the Future of Work in Gelsenkirchen from 31 October to 9 November

The Popup Dialogue-Centre “Durchblick” opens its doors for citizens in Gelsenkirchen. It is dedicated to the questions and answers on the digitalisation of work. Which technologies will be pioneering in the future and which social and ecological aspects will play a role? What hopes and fears do we associate with digitalisation? In the travelling exhibition, which tours six German cities from October 2018 onward, we present current developments and trends in the world of work and invite you to join us: by participating, asking questions, expressing opinions and criticising – we want to hear your vision for the work of the […]

| Posted October 23, 2018

149 – That Is the Number of People Who Visited the Popup Dialogue-Centre on Opening Night

The team of actors, Stefan Herrmann, Anna Röser and Romi Goehlich were on the road in the city centre of Wuppertal before the opening event, asking citizens to design an APP for their future work. We collected these ideas in the pop-up dialogue centre on our APP wall. Visit the Popup Dialogue-Centre to check out the APPs and many other great installations! Prior to the opening, our other interaction formats also invited passers-by to visit the exhibition and participate. The empty store at the Rathaus Galerie Wuppertal quickly filled up with invited guests, spontaneous visitors and citizens who had travelled to […]

| Posted October 22, 2018

Healthier, More Equitable and Sustainable Europe by 2040? Here Is What European Citizens Have to Say!

Citizens of five different European countries unanimously agree that there is a need for a systemic change towards more sustainable and better lives. However, when it comes to achieving this, where do they agree and differ? The INHERIT focus group analytical report provides insights to citizens’ perceptions! The CSCP’s INHERIT team has recently published the ‘Citizen Insights for a Healthier, more Equitable and Sustainable Europe by 2040’ report, which is comprised of the analytical results of citizen consultations conducted in five European countries, namely the Czech Republic, Germany, Macedonia, Spain and the UK. The report provides insights into citizens’ perceptions, behavioural […]

| Posted October 16, 2018

Meet the CSCP at the Think 2030 Sustainability Forum on 17-18 October in Brussels

Are you interested in discussing and proposing solutions to Europe’s most pressing sustainability issues? Then join the CSCP at the Think 2030 Sustainability Forum and exchange your views with other like-minded experts. The EU, for decades now, has advanced and brought forward the sustainable development agenda through its various policies and programmes. Through careful consideration in each passing round, EU policy makers have continuously improved and enhanced the implementation of the sustainable development agenda. To this end, European scientific and research institutions have also largely contributed with their findings, insights and recommendations. Together they make sure the EU’s environmental and sustainability […]

| Posted October 15, 2018

Register now for the #InheritYourFuture FORUM in Vienna on 21 November 2018

What will the future of transportation look like? How will we stay healthy, and how can we keep our environment healthy as well? Together, we can imagine a future that serves us in different ways and design the necessary policies, actions, products and services to get there. #InheritYourFuture is a European exchange of ideas on promising practices that will lead us to live, move and consume in a way that protects the environment and promotes health and equity (the INHERIT triple-win). Once we have figured out which policies, actions, products and services are right, we must ask how we can ensure […]

| Posted October 10, 2018

Producers, Consumers, Prosumers: New Ways of Doing Business

Prosumption is as old as time. “Production for self-use” (Toffler 1980) is simply what many of our grandparents and great-grandparents did every day: growing their own food, making and mending their clothes and fixing what’s broken. After decades where production and consumption were firmly separated – in everyday life as much as in academic studies and theories – prosumption is making a comeback. “Are you a prosumer?” was also the first question we asked the participants in our expert workshop that took place at the end of June 2018. It turns out that many of the participants were, indeed, prosumers. The […]

| Posted October 8, 2018

The CSCP Advises the 6th ASEM Working Group Seminar on SME Capacity Development

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) provide 70% of jobs and are major contributors to value creation, generating up to 60% of value added in OECD countries. In September, the ASEM Working Group convened in Luxembourg to develop recommendations on how to support SMEs to embrace eco-innovation to create greater impacts. Efforts towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are gaining momentum throughout the global community. The member states of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) have been focusing on the role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in achieving sustainable development. In preparation for the upcoming 12th ASEM Summit, taking place in Brussels […]

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