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November 22, 2022

Lessons learned – What green startups need to unfold their transformative potential: Last Article of the Transition 1 | 2022 (by Romina Große, Rüdiger Klatt, Elisabeth Meyer & Silke Steinberg)

Lessons learned – What green startups need to unfold their transformative potential (Romina Große, Rüdiger Klatt, Elisabeth Meyer & Silke Steinberg) Potential of green startups to foster a green transition of economies and societies The GreenTecLab project was initiated out of the conviction that green startups can contribute significantly to accelerating the necessary ecological, social, economic and cultural transition. In…

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November 16, 2022

Blue Economy, an opportunity to explore: Article 12 of the Transition 1 | 2022 (by Aida Muñoz Maqueda, IFEF)

Blue Economy, an opportunity to explore (Aida Muñoz Maqueda, IFEF) The Blue economy sector generates, develops and enhances ideas that contribute to the sustainability of a vitally important resource, the sea, and is inspired by contributions that a circular economy approach and a commitment to the environment offers today’s society. Here you can find the article.

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November 11, 2022

Startup support in Slovakia: Article 11 of the Transition 1 | 2022 (by Milan Filá)

Startup support in Slovakia (Milan Filá) The use of the term startup originally became commonly used in the US in 1997-2001, which was a period of so-called unhealthy rapid growth of technology and software companies. The original connotation of a startup was a recently founded, technology-oriented company that is characterised by high growth potential. Startups still do not have a…

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November 7, 2022

Green startups for the environment and climate protection: Article 10 of the Transition 1 | 2022 (by Hartwig Berger)

Green startups for the environment and climate protection (Hartwig Berger) Projects in rural towns in Andalusia In this article you can get information about the economic structure of La Janda and how it developed over the years. Furthermore challenges and impulses of environmental and climate protection are described. Different projects and steps to help with green entrepreneurships are listed at…

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November 2, 2022

The Grove Crete – State-sponsored greenwashing? Article 9 of the Transition 1 | 2022 (by Serhat Ünaldi)

The Grove Crete – State-sponsored greenwashing? (Serhat Ünaldi) How misguided tourism policies make it difficult for green startups to get off the ground On the need to think holistically, intersectorally and qualitatively about sustainability in the hospitality industry In 1983, U.S. student and environmentalist Jay Westerveld was vacationing in Fiji. Although he was staying in a small guesthouse, he fetched fresh…

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October 27, 2022

From whey to socio-ecological transformation: Article 8 of the Transition 1 | 2022 (by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung)

From whey to socio-ecological transformation (Heinrich Böll Stiftung) What could the creation of the first hotel with a zero carbon footprint mean for the future of a tourist-heavy Crete? And how can an agri-farming region use residues from tree pruning and cheese-making to produce a high-quality product such as whey, without any energy burden? These and many other things are…

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October 24, 2022

Startup ecosystem and “green” entrepreneurship on the Island Crete: Interview from the Transition 1 | 2022 (by Sarina Thiele & Michalis Katharakis)

Startup ecosystem and “green” entrepreneurship on the Island Crete (Sarina Thiele & Michalis Katharakis) During the last few years, the German-Hellenic Chamber of Industry and Commerce is closely co-operating with the Technical Institute of Heraklion Chamber in the fields of vocational education and training, as well as in the implementation of projects about the protection of environment and energy saving….

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October 17, 2022

Cross-national startup cooperations as a driver of the green transformation in Europe: Chapter 6 of the Transition 1 | 2022 (by Rüdiger Klatt & Silke Steinberg)

Cross-national startup cooperations as a driver of the green transformation in Europe (Rüdiger Klatt & Silke Steinberg, FIAP e.V.) Against the background of current social and ecological crises, business ideas that are only economically viable and promise profits are coming under pressure to justify themselves. It is possible that in the future every startup will have to define itself far…

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October 13, 2022

New markets in the energy transition: Energy efficiency of buildings and energy refurbishment: Article 5 of the Transition 1 | 2022 (by Jose Manuel Salmeron Lissen & Francisco Javier Pino Lucena)

New markets in the energy transition: Energy efficiency of buildings and energy refurbishment (Jose Manuel Salmeron Lissen & Francisco Javier Pino Lucena) At the present, 75% of the stock of existing buildings in Europe are energy inefficient. Moreover, 90% of them will continue to remain so until 2050. This, together with the fact that 2/3 of the energy consumption in…

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October 11, 2022

Public funded project as driver for a new economy and a fairer society: Article 4 of the Transition 1 | 2022 (by Marco Rogai & Miro Poláček, Pedal Consulting)

Public funded project as driver for a new economy and a fairer society (Marco Rogai & Miro Poláček) The European Union has established very ambitious goals for the next medium and long-term period. It aims to cut in half the amount of CO2 production by 2030 and to become completely carbon neutral by 2050. In addition to these already extremely…

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