| Posted October 7, 2018

Want to Make Your Supply Chains Sustainable? Join the Kompetenzzentrum eStandards Workshop “Digital Sustainable Supply Chains” in Bottrop on 29 November

Establishing transparency and sustainability along your entire supply chain helps meet customer demands, saves money, and makes your business model more resilient. The CSCP, as part of the Kompetenzzentrum eStandards, in cooperation with the Economic Development Agency Bottrop, will be organising a workshop that looks at your challenges and needs in making your supply chains future-proof and develops digital solutions with you. Sooner or later, medium-sized companies in particular are addressed by critical customers about their supply chain, or, as suppliers, have to comply with their customers’ Code of Conduct and meet minimum ecological and social standards. At the same time, […]

| Posted October 6, 2018

More Than 30 Leading NGOs Successfully Complete the First Academy of Change Workshop

How do you establish a plastic-free Ramadan, implement climate-friendly canteen dishes or empower people to act according to their beliefs when it comes to meat consumption? These are only some examples from the Academy of Change Workshop that took place in September, where more than 30 leading NGOs came together in Cologne, including Greenpeace international, Fairtrade International, Rare, WRAP und Verbraucherzentrale NRW. The workshop was part of the Academy of Change, the CSCP’s programme on sustainable behaviour designed for future leaders working on climate change and sustainability in the NGO sector. It provided not only insights of behavioural science to the […]

| Posted October 5, 2018

The CSCP Advocates for Multi-stakeholder Collaborations Between European and Asian SMEs at ASEIC Global Innovation Forum in Jakarta

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are central to the economy in many countries worldwide. Because they are driving economic growth and providing a large share of employment, it is essential for the SME sector to be sustainable and relevant to current and future trends. The CSCP showed why collaboration is essential in this endeavour at the Forum. In emerging economies, SMEs contribute up to 45% of total employment and 33% of GDP, worldwide. They make up 90% of businesses and more than half of employment. When taking the contribution of informal businesses into account, SMEs contribute to more than half of […]

| Posted October 4, 2018

Integrating Consumer Insights into the Circular Economy Transition: The CSCP Organises Stakeholder Meeting in Brussels on 25 October 2018

Following the Circular Economy Action Plan, business and policy makers have been driving the development and implementation of actions for closing the loop. However, consumer behaviour sometimes becomes the hurdle, for example, with low acceptance rates of circular solutions, limited repair actions, or lack of participation in recycling programmes. As this severely curtails any efforts in moving towards a circular economy, we ask, “What can be done?” How might consumers be empowered to become active enablers and contributors to the circular economy? In particular, how can businesses and policymakers better integrate consumer insights into their actions to achieve higher circular value? […]

| Posted October 3, 2018

High School Students from Wuppertal Explore Sustainable Mobility in their Neighbourhood

Are the hills and frequent rains in Wuppertal really a good excuse not to cycle to school? What drives mobility choices of young students and how do they want to live in the future? The CSCP is finding out in the “Climate protection for all” project. “What impacts do my personal daily mobility patterns have on the climate and on air quality in Wuppertal? How can I influence the development of my school and my neighboorhood? What’s my vision of Wuppertal 2030?” We asked and answered these and many other questions with a class of seven-graders and experts on mobility from […]

, | Posted October 2, 2018

CSR Hub NRW Concludes After Three Successful Years – Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart to Join Closing Ceremony on 30 October 2018 in Essen

Since 2016 the CSR Hub NRW has helped Startups in NRW to discover methods and tools to incorporate sustainability into their business models, products and services. Now it’s time to pay a final visit to what we’ve learned along our entrepreneurial journey. In March 2016, the Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP) together with Business Angels Netzwerk Deutschland e.V. (BAND) began their partnership as a CSR competence centre. Financed by the government of Northrine-Westphalia, we have been supporting start-ups on their way to more sustainable innovations and a better understanding of how to implement CSR-measures. Today, we look back […]

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The CSCP’s REFRESH Project Takes Penny Trainees on an Exploration of the Taste of Sustainability and Deceleration

This summer, we met trainees of the German grocery store chain Penny from several different regions of Germany with the best ideas to avoid food waste –  and took them on an excursion. As part of the CSCP’s EU-funded project REFRESH, which aims to understand the reasons for and fight against food waste, 900 trainees of the discounter chain Penny were called to hand in their best ideas on how to avoid food waste in households after they had taken part in a training. Among all the creative and innovative ideas, the best eleven were chosen and their engaged authors were […]

| Posted September 27, 2018

The CSCP to Participate in the European Union’s Circular Economy Missions: How Can We Design Better Production Systems for the Future?

We need to design more viable and valuable production systems to enable a good life. Transitioning from the destructive linear economy to a constructive circular economy will benefit us now and in the future. Together with the European Union (EU), the CSCP is working intensely in this area. The European Union is conducting a series of high-level political and business meetings in several countries to discuss problems and solutions for sustainable and resource-efficient systems. The CSCP’s Senior Advisor, Raymond Slaughter, is a delegate to the Circular Economy Mission to Japan in October this year. The missions are initiated by the Directorate-General […]

| Posted September 26, 2018

Interested in Good Ideas? Collaborate with Innovative Companies at the R2Pi Startup Breakfast on 18 October in Berlin

What are the great new ideas, inventions and products in the area of circular economy?  Who are the award-winning startups and how can we collaborate to create a more sustainable future? If you want the answers to these and many more questions, join the Startup Breakfast in October. The CSCP and its R2Pi project are bringing together startups in the circular economy with larger stakeholders from industry. Our goal is to create a collaboration space for the exchange of innovative ideas and platform for establishing potential partnerships to stimulate the sustainable handling of the world’s valuable resources. On 18 October 2018, […]

| Posted September 24, 2018

Our First Popup Dialogue-Centre on the Future of Work Opens in Wuppertal on 17 October 2018

What will the working world of tomorrow look like? And what is your place in it? The best way to answer these and many more questions is through dialogue – between researchers, who can identify trends and statistics, politicians, who can change policies, and you, working people and citizens, who can shape the way we work in the future. Be part of the dialogue by visiting the Popup Dialogue-Centres on their journey through Germany. With our project „Insights” (Wissenschaftsjahr 2018, Science Year 2018), jointly implemented with the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, and Folkwang University of the Arts, we […]

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