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Action town – Research and Action for SCPProject elements &Event flow

Presented by:

Burcu Tunçer

Action Town - Research and Action for SCP(CSOContribution2SCP)

www.action-town.eu 2Burcu Tuncer Action Town - Resarch & Action for SCP

Partners

Action Town - Research & Action for SCPObjective, scope & partners

FocusTo provide new insights for increasing efficiency of policy strategies, assessment tools and indicators for SCP through small-scale exploratory actions.

OverallObjective

To stimulate partnerships between civil society organisations and their stakeholders (especially research community) to increase civil society involvement in SCP research..

More partners to come...


Action Town - Research & Action for SCPFramework

Civil society strategies....

... can use SCP tools ...

. ... to encourage change towards sustainable consumption and production.

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Strategies we focus on


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AssessCampaign

Take partInvolve (engage)

Orient for sustainable behaviourNetwork


. ... to encourage change towards sustainable patterns of consumption and production.

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Tools we focus on


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Policy instruments Assessment tools

Indicators

... to encourage change towards sustainable patterns of consumption and production.

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What kind of change are we talking about?



. ... to encourage change towards sustainable patterns of consumption and production.

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Action Town - Research & Action for SCPMajor Activities

• Guidelines (in three core areas policy instruments, assessment tools and indicators)• Survey with the civil society to identify gaps in action for effective SCP policy implementation and knowledge in assessment tools and indicators for SCP

• Setting-up of national networks lead by civil society focal points• Capacity-building workshops• Exploratory actions within three core areas, possibly linking to National Action Plans on SCP or SD• Match-making event(s) between research institutions and civil society


Action Town - Research & Action for SCP Project WebsiteA virtual town of SCP researchers & civil society organizations


Project timetable

CSO Contribu-tion to SCP Event

National focal points & orientation seminar

Support seminar on policy instruments

Support seminar on assessment tools

Support seminar on indicators

Review of state of the art in SCP research Assessment

seminar & Feasibility survey

Dissemina-tion at the national and int. level

Month 1 Month 4 Month 10 Month 17

Nov. 2008 March 2009 Oct. - Dec. 2009 Mid to end of 2010

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The flow of the conference

Workshop 1:Panel 1: Recent developments of SCP policy processesPanel 2: Civil society involvement in SCP policy processes

Food & Drink Mobility HousingWorkshop 2: How to promote sustainable lifestyles?

Assessment toolsInstruments Indicators

Workshop 3:What is the latest in SCP research? How can research support civil society?

Workshop 4: What other research needs do CSOs have for more effective actions?

Workshop 5a: Making the case against economic growth

Workshop 5b: Creative instruments for behaviour change

Workshop 6a: How to partner for funding in 10YFP and for sustainable lifestyles Workshop 6b: Blueprint for European SCP

Marketplace of ideas: Formulating ideas for collective action

CSO platform

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WELCOME! From Dialogue to Action

• Fill in the project idea forms! Join the stands at the Marketplace.

• Remember to sign up for the open space discussions. There is free space for topics you like to discuss during the the Marketplace.

• Remember tonight: Evening cocktail Five senses of sustainability in the restaurant Rossini at 19:30

Your job at the Event is to contribute to the

dialogue and create ideas for SCP actions!


Dialogue & Action Platform on SCP EventThe CSCP Team - your host

Elli

NoraAction Town

SatuCSO Platform

on SCP

Sebastian

Oliver

Jan

Andrés

Nora

Rena

Annika

Lets get on with it!

For further questions, please contact:

Burcu TunçerProject manager [email protected]


Action Town - Research & Action for SCPObjective, scope & partners

Business

Consumers

Academia

Policy makers

Civil Society Organisations

(CSOs)

• Evidence base for priority setting• Monitoring of policies through indicators

• Partnerships for sustainable technologies• Monitoring of actions

• Information & awareness raising • Creative instruments for behavioral change

• Monitor & encourage policy implementation• Partnerships for policy innovation


Civil Society and Research Community Partnering for SCPWhy get involved?

Why should your civil society organisation get involved?

Three possible levels of engagement:

• Build capacity in three core issues of SCP research;

• Receive funding for travel & accomodation;

• Share best practices;

• Establish own SCP network.

Medium

• Get familiar with core issues of SCP research;

• Join capacity building workshops;

• Observe the process & get new contacts.

Low

• Receive project funding to work on policy strategies, indicators and/or assessment tools for SCP;

• Become a project partner to work with leading SCP experts;

• Become national focal point to set-up a national network on SCP.

High


• Collecting and mapping the state of the art of current research• How could CSO’s make implementation more effective?• Collecting best cases of CSO actions

The Focus of the Action Town Project: Policy Instruments, Assessment tools and Indicators

Policy instruments

Assessment tools

Indicators

Has your organisation

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Innovative after-sales services

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Product and service

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Service-orientated business models

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