Partners & Supporters

Partners


The conference “The Future of Sustainable Products & Services” aims at multidisciplinarity, creative exchange and direct impulses on the implementation level. This high claim can only be met by a set of strong partners, who display both a broad diversity and high professionalism in their respective fields.

  

Supporters






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The UNEP / Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP) as the chief organiser, was founded to conduct applied research and implementation projects in the field of sustainable consumption and production worldwide. The centre has experience in working on questions of CSR with the UN Global Compact and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

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As an international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations, the federally owned Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)  GmbH supports the German Government in achieving its development-policy objectives. It provides viable, forward-looking solutions for political, economic, ecological and social development in a globalised world. Working under difficult conditions, GTZ promotes complex reforms and change processes. Its corporate objective is to improve people’s living conditions on a sustainable basis.


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The Wuppertal Institute is one of the top German research institutions in the field of sustainability, and a main driver when it comes to a shift towards a more sustainable economy – in Germany and internationally. In this role, it expands the outreach of the conference especially in the academic realm.

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The Effizienz-Agentur NRW is an important networking and support facility for SMEs searching for ways to environmentally improve their production models and products. Therefore, it brings in a broad network comprising experts in the field of Cleaner Production and SMEs and thereby grants direct outreach on the implementation level.


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ecosign, a design school located in Cologne founded in 1994, educates designers specialised on holistic and sustainable design solutions. Thereby, it serves as an originator for a change in the field of design as well as a hub for professionals already implementing this change.

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Since its inception, the Autostadt, as the Volkswagen Group’s communications platform, has explored the values that make up the basis of responsible corporate trading. Since 2006, topics such as environmental protection and social responsibility have been united under the umbrella concept of sustainable development. At the Autostadt different attractions (“Erlebnisräume”) around the topic of sustainability are available to visitors giving them the opportunity not only of exploring various subjects but also of experiencing them. The exhibition “LEVEL GREEN – The idea of sustainability”, which opened in June 2009, is just one example of this.



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What is Folkwang design? Well-trained designers make an important contribution to designing our environment by virtue of their holistic practical and critical thinking, their sensibility and capacity to think ahead, and their knowledge of culture, art, technology, ergonomics, science and the marketplace. The Folkwang’s training in Design aims to educate this kind of designer, to give them the basis for new perspectives and approaches and to encourage them in establishing their own individual attitudes and approaches to design – all within the context of a unique cross-disciplinary course structure and the fusion of theory with practice.