Events
Stay up to date with events on circular living! See where CARE contributes – whether as participants or organisers – and join us in shaping a circular future.
Stay up to date with events on circular living! See where CARE contributes – whether as participants or organisers – and join us in shaping a circular future.
2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the UMWELTFESTIVAL. While it was just one of many programme items at the ‘Climate Forum “95” in 1995, the UMWELTFESTIVAL has now established itself as a permanent fixture in the Berlin event landscape – with nationwide appeal. The Climate Forum ‘95, organised as an international NGO forum under the leadership of the umbrella organisation Deutscher Naturschutzring and its member organisation GRÜNE LIGA as a counter-event to the first World Climate Conference (COP 1) in Berlin, is regarded as a model for all subsequent civil society forums at the annual UN climate conferences.
The UMWELTFESTIVAL provides a stage for those who are committed to people, nature, the environment and the climate, who think up creative and forward-looking solutions and offer inspiration and guidance. The aim is to create hope, describe common paths and resolve conflicts.
All associations, initiatives, companies, authorities, manufacturers and restaurateurs are invited to present their projects, services, products and ideas on environmental, nature and climate protection on the UMWELTFESITVAL’s experience mile in an inviting and inspiring way. The registration season starts in mid-January.
CARE will be represented by Verbraucher Initiative e.V.
Organiser: GRÜNE LIGA Berlin
Place: Brandenburger Tor and Straße des 17. Juni, Berlin, Germany
Time: 01.06.2025, 11:00 – 18:00 CET
Cost-free event
This year’s EU Green Week will explore the ‘three Cs’ – clean, competitive and circular – and examine how to make Europe’s economic transition more circular. A circular economy has the potential to drive sustainable competitiveness, reduce waste, increase strategic autonomy, and foster innovation. It offers solutions to some of Europe’s most pressing challenges.
On 5 June, CARE will be represented by CSCP, who will deliver an impulse talk and host a World Café session. We will highlight how storytelling can encourage consumers to adopt more circular and climate-friendly behaviours.
CARE will be represented by CSCP.
Organiser: European Commission’s Directorate-General for Environment
Place: Brussels and Online
Time: 03. – 05.06.2025
Cost-free event
Note: On-site registration is now closed; online participation remains open.
As a continuation of the successful conference series ‘Re-source – Resource Conservation – From Idea to Action’, the Ministries of the Environment and the Federal Environmental Agencies of Austria, Switzerland and Germany invite you to the next symposium in Frankfurt am Main on 15 and 16 May 2025.
The main focus of the conference series is the transnational exchange of experience on topics related to resource conservation and circular economy. A particular focus will be on the development of waste management into a resource-efficient material flow economy.
In their presentations, expert speakers will outline approaches and strategies for sustainable resource management, thus highlighting options for practical implementation.
The conference is aimed at experts and interested parties from science, politics, administration, planning, industry and trade, as well as representatives of national and international specialist groups and NGOs in the fields of waste management, resource conservation, sustainable production and sustainable consumption.
CARE was represented by Verbraucher Initiative e.V.
Organiser: Environment ministries and federal agencies in Germany, Switzerland and Austria
Place: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Time: 15. – 16.05.2025, full day
Paid event
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Mainstreaming Sustainable Consumption
The SCORAI Europe Conference 2025 was held in Lund, Sweden, on April 8-10 2025 together with the MISTRA Sustainable Consumption project and the EU 1.5° Lifestyles project. The conference brought together 400-500 researchers and practitioners concerned with sustainable consumption to make progress on mainstreaming sustainable consumption.
CARE was represented by Tampere University, OsloMet, Lund University, BOKU University and IVL.
Organiser: The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
Place: Lund (Sweden), or online
Time: 08. – 10.04.2025, full day
Paid event
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Together with the University of Hamburg, the citizen science platform ‘mit:forschen! Creating Knowledge Together’ invited to the Forum Citizen Science 2024 on 9 and 10 October in the German Hanseatic City of Hamburg. The annual conference offers the community a platform for discussion, exchange of experiences and networking and took place for the seventh time.
CARE was represented by Verbraucher Initiative e.V. and CSCP with a workshop on ‘Zero Waste in the Wardrobe’.
Organiser: University of Hamburg and mit:forschen!
Place: Besenbinderhof 57A, 20097 Hamburg, Germany
Time: 09. – 10.10.2024, full day
Paid event
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