Sustainable Innovation

If you are a service or product manufacturing company – a small or medium-sized business, with less than 250 employees, based in the South East region (Kent, Surrey, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, West Sussex, East Sussex) - you may be eligible for up to two days of free consultancy support.

The Centre for Sustainable Design is able to provide free research and advice related to greener product design and development, funding, marketing and commercialisation to eligible small or medium sized enterprises, through the EcoMind project, with EU funding from the INTERREG IVA “2 Seas” Programme. Consultants from The Centre for Sustainable Design (CfSD) have worked to reduce environmental impact multi-nationally in electronics, automotive, engineering, building, finance and marketing services industries in research, development and commercialisation capacities.

Support can help with:

• greening of existing products or services
• development of new greener products or services

This might include:
• identifying opportunities to reduce costs through environmental improvements
• identifying new market opportunities
• developing new product and service concepts
• identifying the implications of product-related environmental legislation
• exploring opportunities related to low carbon product or services

EcoMind support uniquely offers:
• cross border facilitation to encourage supply and demand, knowledge transfer and partnership creation amongst SMEs
• links to other EcoMind partners resources through Business Support Kent, WSX Enterprise, EnviroBusiness, Enviu (The Netherlands), TU Delft (The Netherlands), CD2E (France) and CCI GL (France)

Benefits of CfSD’s approach:

• over 20 years experience in business sustainability
• industry focused
• access to regional, national and international networks
• multi-disciplinary innovation skills

Events

If you are a small or medium-sized business with less than 250 employees and are based in the Surrey, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, West Sussex, East Sussex, Kent you are eligible for free attendance at the following events:

Month	Year	Events	Timing	Venue
2nd October	2009	SMILE - Casper Gray, Damien Jones and David Parker - As Good as New: Product Design and Remanufacture (ECOMIND)	12.00 - 2.00	UCA, Farnham, Surrey
24th November	2009	Sustainable Building Products & Technologies (ECOMIND)	1.30 - 6.00	Bricks & Bread, Aldershot, Hampshire
26th February	2010	Responsible Design, Entrepreneurship and Leadership (ECOMIND)	12.00 - 3.00	UCA, Farnham, Surrey
15th April	2010	The Eco-innovation Workshop (ECOMIND)	1.00 - 6.00	UCA, Farnham, Surrey
29th June	2010	Eco-retrofit: Implications for Sustainable Building Products & Technologies (ECOMIND)	8.00 - 10.30	Blake Lapthorn, Eastleigh, Hampshire
1st July	2010	Austerity Business - Doing More with Less Through Eco-Innovation (ECOMIND)	2.30 - 5.00	UCA, Farnham, Surrey
31st January	2011	Marketing Your Eco-Products Workshop (ECOMIND)		UCA, Farnham, Surrey
9th February	2011	OpenGreen (ECOMIND)		Bricks & Bread, Aldershot, Hampshire
March 16th - 17th	2011	Visit to Rotterdam Promoting Cross-Border Collaboration (ECOMIND)	2 Days	Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Case Studies

Case studies on supported companies include:
• Thirty Ltd – innovative ‘Cross-Bone’ low impact profiling system for construction sites (video)

The document reflects the author's views. The INTERREG IVA 2 Seas Programme Authorities are not
liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

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