A planned ESF Plus project, co-funded by the Röchling Stiftung, starts not with job-application training but with belonging, self-efficacy, and responsibility.
Who is financing the transition to a circular economy? How does the money get to where it’s really needed? And how can the business community, investors, policymakers, and civil society work together effectively to achieve this? These questions are the focus of our second POLYPROBLEM camp in Berlin-Neukölln, titled “Wechsel-Geld.”
Berlin-based association Acker is working to make the shipping of young plants for growing plots at schools, daycare centres, and kindergartens more sustainable. Acker is a non-profit educational organisation and a social enterprise that has scaled with exceptional success in recent years.
Using bio-based insulation materials for buildings as an example, co2online and its partners are testing how non-profit actors can prepare their information and advisory services so that they are visible, accurate, and helpful for concrete decisions in AI-powered answer systems.
Our eighth POLYPROBLEM report, "Change", examines why financing for the circular economy is stalling despite its recognized potential. Using start-ups, established companies, banks, and politics as examples, the report shows what is slowing down the circular transition and what could make it possible.
The three-year Cradle-to-Cradle Electronics Initiative (C2CEI) creates a platform that goes beyond traditional circular economy principles and establishes Cradle to Cradle (C2C) as a forward-looking strategic standard in the industry.
Founded in 2018, the Osnabrück-based organization Ozeankind promotes environmental awareness among children on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar through environmental protection and recycling projects.
Negotiations for the global plastics agreement are in full swing! What impact do the decisions of the negotiators have on the global volume of plastic waste? Systemiq has modeled different scenarios. Yoni Shiran, Plastics Lead at Systemiq, presented the results of the model and reported on the negotiations.
