| Posted March 14, 2024

Enhancing the Circular Economy of Plastic Packaging: Join our MERLIN Project Webinar on 27 March 2024!

Multi-layer packaging offers many advantages when it comes to product protection, storage, and transportation. However, due to the variety of materials and adhesive compounds used, its recycling remains challenging. As a consequence, it often contaminates recycling material streams and is incinerated or landfilled. In our MERLIN project webinar on 27 March 2024, project partners, involved stakeholders, and topic experts will come together to discuss good practices in circular packaging design, material recovery, consumer awareness, and relevant policy aspects – join us! A key objective of the MERLIN project is to facilitate knowledge sharing among key stakeholders toward increasing the rate […]

| Posted March 13, 2024

“Communication is Key to Keeping Sustainability at the Top of the Agenda”

Katrin Hüttepohl, new CSCP Communication Manager, believes that clear and impactful messaging is key to mainstreaming sustainability toward a good life for all. In this interview, she shares how past experiences inform her current work and explains why leading by example is the best strategy to inspire and enable positive change. How do past experiences – including your childhood, education, or work experience – inform what you do now at the CSCP? Past experiences play a significant role in my current work at the CSCP. First, growing up in a family that emphasised how interconnected our wellbeing is with that […]

| Posted March 12, 2024

How AI is Paving the Way to Sustainable Business for SMEs: Listen to our WertNetzWerke Podcast!

At a time when many companies are looking for innovative solutions to make their business practices more sustainable, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the main promising technologies. But what does this mean for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and their specific business contexts? Do they have the capacities to identify and leverage AI opportunities and, on the other side, assess and mitigate related risks? CSCP’s Arne von Hofe and Mike Table delve into these questions in a podcast of the Digital Centre WertNetzWerke. Artificial intelligence offers a wide range of applications that can help companies make more sustainable decisions […]

| Posted March 6, 2024

Convenient Instead of Complicated: How to Make Reusable Packaging an Easy Choice for Consumers

Whether it’s a coffee to go or a veggie bowl for lunch at the office – takeaway services are an everyday convenience for many people. However, the prevalence of disposable packaging for takeaway food and drinks has a significant impact on the environment. According to the German Packaging Act, all companies that offer takeaway food and drinks are obliged to offer their customers a reusable alternative. Several years after the new law came into force, reusable packaging is still not being used sufficiently. The Digital Centre WertNetzWerke is working together with companies and relevant stakeholders to overcome this hurdle. Convenient […]

| Posted March 5, 2024

Supporting IT Companies to Become Sustainability Accelerators

The European Union has committed to mobilise at least 1 trillion Euros in sustainable investments until 2030 to achieve the goals set by the European Green Deal. This sends a strong signal that we have entered a phase of major economic transformation to reconcile economic activity with the environmental boundaries of our planet and to achieve progress on the societal challenges we face. As the circular transition gets into full swing, many businesses opportunities arise. How can German small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) operating in the Information Technology (IT) sector leverage this market development and act as transformation accelerators and […]

| Posted February 28, 2024

The CSCP Partners Up with X-Creation to Accelerate Sustainable Innovation

Climate change, biodiversity loss, inequalities within and among countries – these are only a few of the challenges that the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to tackle. However, achieving the 17 ambitious goals requires bold and immediate action. We are happy to announce our partnership with X-Creation to connect and collaborate toward addressing current critical challenges aligned with the SDGs. X-Creation is a curated community and service that accelerates sustainable innovation. By connecting and facilitating a tightly curated and highly diverse group of practitioners from companies, scientific institutions, non-profits, and public organisations, X-Creation enables the co-creation of sustainable […]

| Posted February 19, 2024

The CARE Project Kicks-Off: Inspiring and Enabling Circular Lifestyles

From better meal planning and food storage to thoughtful shopping and the repairing of old garments, the sum of our individual actions can hold the key to greater sustainability on a systemic level. In our CARE project, we have joined hands with eleven partner organisations to inspire and enable 100 households across Europe to endorse and implement circularity on a daily basis. The project, which kicked-off in January 2024 in Tampere, Finland will focus on how households can most easily and effectively use food and clothing in a circular way. Through close collaboration with individuals, families, and communities, the project […]

| Posted February 5, 2024

The Fab Region Project Has Kicked-Off: Accelerating the Transition Toward a Sustainable and Co-Creative Circular Economy Region

Cities and regions can play a strategic role in unlocking the potential of circular economy in order to accelerate the sustainable transformation. But how can relevant actors on a city level be brought together to spearhead this transformation in a whole region? What formats and approaches are needed? How can successful innovative solutions be scaled to increase positive impact? Our new project, Fab Region in the Bergische city-triangle will support the cities of Wuppertal, Solingen, and Remscheid in North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW), Germany, to develop, pilot and implement sustainable and collaborative circular economy approaches with scale-up potential. Drawing inspiration from the […]

| Posted January 31, 2024

The BREADCRUMB Project is Launched: How to Save Food Through Better Marketing Standards

The quality and appearance of food products that we find on retailer shelves is at least partially defined by marketing standards. At early stages of the supply chain, like the interface of production and retail, certain product specifications may result in products being sorted out and becoming food loss or waste. 21 partners from eight European countries have come together in the Breadcrumb project aiming to better understand and reduce the impacts of marketing standards on food waste. 14 multi-actor case studies covering five food commodities (fruits & vegetables, meat, eggs, cereals and fish) will play a major role in […]

| Posted January 24, 2024

Skills and Competences for the Future: Join our CATALYST Event on 6 February 2024!

In a world racing against time to meet ambitious climate targets, increasing sustainability skills and competences should be on top of the agenda. In particular, the lack of comprehensive approaches to continuously build capacities for transformation in organisations such as small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) need to be addressed with priority. In response to this urgent need, the CSCP has teamed up with the German Sustainable Economy Association (BNW) and Bells Solutions to establish a joint European Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVe) in Germany as part of the CATALYST project. A key goal of the centre is to foster excellence […]

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