| Posted June 26, 2025

From Trees to Forests—How Stakeholder Engagement Can Drive Systemic Change

“Only by creating local ownership, can we win the long game” – says Luca Sander, Project Coordinator, as he reflects on five years at the CSCP and shares why meaningful stakeholder engagement is key to driving lasting system change. Can you briefly walk us through your journey at the CSCP — from starting as an intern back in 2020 to your current role as project coordinator? One of the things I appreciate most about being part of the CSCP is how it allowed me to grow over the years and develop my strengths with the support of a dedicated and […]

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UBi Dialogue Forum 2025: When Business and Biodiversity Play in Harmony

What happens when nature’s symphony falls silent? As ecosystems lose their rhythm, economies follow suit. At the UBi Dialogue Forum 2025, leaders from business, science, and policy explored how protecting biodiversity can strike the right chord for a resilient, future-ready economy. Imagine a string quartet performing Vivaldi’s “Summer” – full of rhythm, structure and vitality. Now imagine the birds and insects that once brought this music to life falling silent. That, said Sabine Riewenherm, President of the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), is the state of many ecosystems today. And when nature loses its harmony, so too does […]

| Posted June 25, 2025

Unlocking a Trusted & Data-Driven Circular Economy: Meet us at CircularTech Forum on 22 September 2025!

Keeping global warming below the 2.0 °C threshold remains one of the main challenges of our time. Achieving this goal requires transparent, reliable data on product origins and lifecycles—shared seamlessly across the supply chain—to enable and accelerate a truly circular economy. Meet us at the CircularTech Forum on 22 September 2025 in Cologne, Germany, where leading voices from circular economy and digitalisation come together. The aim of the CircularTech Forum is to connect these two transformative fields, diving into the latest innovations, barriers, and solutions. A special focus will be placed on financing circular transitions and harnessing digital tools—such as the […]

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From Challenge to Prototype: T-Systems X-Creation and the CSCP Unveil AI Scout for Sustainable Innovation

Many companies are aware they need to act on sustainability, but finding viable, strategic business cases remains a major hurdle. It’s often slow, costly, and disconnected from core business innovation. What if an AI co-pilot could scout, analyse, and validate such opportunities for you? How can we simplify and accelerate the process for companies to find and validate business cases for sustainability at a fraction of the current cost? This was the central question of the Innovation Challenge “Unlocking the Twin Transformation with AI”, a collaboration between the CSCP and T-Systems X-Creation. Through deep-dive interviews and workshops, the Innovation Challenge […]

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Tackling Food Waste Together: Join the CHORIZO & ZeroW Final Conference on 16 September 2025!

Food waste is a pressing challenge across Europe, driving a surge of innovative solutions aimed at preventing and reducing it. However, one of the key questions remains: how can we work together to scale promising solutions? Join us at the final conference of our EU project CHORIZO and its sister project ZeroW to discover how cities, researchers, and businesses can collaborate to make real change happen – on 16 September 2025! For the past three and a half years, the two projects have brought together key actors to co-create solutions for preventing and reducing food waste. At the conference “Let’s […]

| Posted June 24, 2025

HOOP: A Circular Journey Comes Full Circle

After four years of exploring circular solutions in cities across Europe, the HOOP project shows what’s possible when technology, finance and participation come together. From AI-powered waste trucks to citizen-led innovation—urban circularity is no longer a vision, but a practice. In March 2025, over 100 stakeholders gathered in Cartagena, Spain, for the HOOP Final Conference to reflect on four and a half years of collaborative work. The Horizon 2020 project supported eight lighthouse cities and regions in turning urban biowaste and wastewater into valuable resources and built a legacy that goes far beyond its original scope. From ambition to action […]

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Don’t Miss Our FAB Festival on 29-31 August 2025!

From maker spaces to main stages—this summer, we have been showcasing what circular transformation can look like in the Bergisch city triangle in Germany. The real highlight: our FAB Festival 2025 across three cities, three innovation centres, and three themes, all hands-on and impact-oriented! From 29 to 31 August 2025, we will host the first FAB Festival in the Bergisch city triangle region. It’s our mid-term celebration and action-packed showcase of everything we’ve developed so far. In addition, the festival will give the floor to many great initiatives that have already been established successfully as this is what the FAB Region is […]

| Posted June 23, 2025

Head, Heart, Hands: A Journey into Transformation With the co-do! lab

What inspires action and drives real transformation? At the grand opening of the co-do lab, nearly 100 guests experienced first-hand the forces that spark positive change. Through connection, immersion in nature, and engaging with the topics of today and tomorrow—using head, heart, and hands—discover how one day became a catalyst for lasting impact! Set on Gut Einern in Wuppertal, the home of the co-do lab, the event invited changemakers to embark on a unique transformation journey across six interactive stations. Each session was designed to engage the mind, touch the heart, and activate the hands. From the Base Camp, groups […]

| Posted June 18, 2025

Enhancing Sustainable Cashmere Production in Mongolia

How can Mongolia’s iconic cashmere not only be known for its quality and durability, but also as a new reference for high sustainability standards? Building on the success of the STeP EcoLab project, the newly launched follow-up sets out to scale fair, circular, and climate-smart solutions across the cashmere sector—protecting livelihoods and landscapes alike. In April 2025, partners from across the Mongolian cashmere sector gathered to mark the launch of STeP EcoLab Mongolia II, a new EU-funded project that builds on the achievements of its predecessor. The event brought together herder associations, industry leaders, policymakers, certification bodies, and sustainability experts […]

| Posted June 17, 2025

From Targets to Actions: Paving the Roadmap for the Implementation of the Global Framework for Chemicals

The Fifth International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM5) in 2023 saw the adoption of the Targets of the Global Framework for Chemicals (GFC), a major step to setting a global path to sound chemicals and waste management beyond 2020. While this move was monumental, the real challenge is how to get there. To address this, the German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt) has initiated the project GFC – Implementation Project I: Roadmap to 2030, bringing together sector actors to explore practical ways of implementation. Together with an experienced consortium, the CSCP is leading the GFC – Implementation Project I: Roadmap to 2030 […]

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