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Leadership Programme for Sustainable Entrepreneurship

The Sustainable Entrepreneur Programme aims at developing and implementing a one-year part-time leadership programme on sustainable entrepreneurship. It will promote new enterprises, whose core activities are centered on creating social and/or environmental benefits. Especially due to the rising number of people who focus their lifestyles on health and sustainability (LOHAS) there is a growing market e.g. for organic food or ethical fashion as well as a growing number of business ideas in the field of sustainability.

Sustainable Entrepreneurs very often operate apart from mainstream business and therefore are in need of a particular training programme, which accounts for their specific c [...] Read more

Resource Productivity in Global Value Chains

Resource efficiency and resource productivity issues are receiving growing attention worldwide. Reasons include recent resource scarcities and rising prices of certain commodities as well as the contribution of resource consumption to climate change.

As value chains become global, resources increasingly flow across national boundaries during the different phases in value chains. Extraction, manufacturing, consumption and end-of-life treatment often happen in different countries or even continents.

Strategies and best practices for public and private actors are thus needed that actively consider international perspectives and interdependencies. These could extend national achievements  [...] Read more