ECCI is the official Scottish partner of Climate-KIC, Europe’s largest climate innovation initiative. The idea behind Climate-KIC is to drive innovation in climate change through creative collaboration. It forges partnerships — large and small, local and global — between the private, public and academic sectors. Climate-KIC was set up in 2010 by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, an EU body. It has developed a strong foothold in the UK and Ireland since, wit

Delighted that our Circular Economy Showcase idea has been shortlisted between 15 finalists for CREATE HIGHLANDS AWARDS Finals among 131 applicants for the Inverness College Business Competition 2016. We would like to offer our grateful thanks to the following for their sponsorship and support: Bridge 2 Business, Business Gateway, Cairngorm Brewery, Converge Challenge, dwMassey, Harper Macleod LLP, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, HISEZ, HISEZ Fusion, Inverness Chamber of Co

MUSHROOMING CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN SCOTLAND Circular Economy is a fantastic opportunity to redesign businesses. But what does it mean? Ten things that you need to know about it Our main goal as sustainability mentors is to let people and companies understand things with practical examples and so we create and help to create pilots and showcasing to demonstrate that this model not just works, but it has a limitless potential. In order to demonstrate what is possible with circular

Achieving a Sustainable Food System in Moray - see the graphic report here #CircularEconomy #FoodSecurity #Scotland #Morayshire #Highland #sustainability #ScottishFoodImport

The Natural Step Level 1 - 7/8 May 2016 Moray - 100% Resilient Food Security and 0% Waste - Venue TBC £435.60–£544.50 sliding scale - bursaries on requests For the first time in Scotland, The Natural Step and Circular Economy Frameworks are working together to involve food stakeholders to define and explore sustainability and create a Sustainable Food System in the North of Scotland. The course is open to everybody and it has a special access requirements for Scottish Food St

In this phase of Food Resilience project the understanding the location of each point in the journey food is required and travels from trough to table is essential. One of the best ways to achieve this is through mapping. By linking geographic information to food data it’s possible to simplify the complex web of origins and process points so food chains can be more easily evalueted, understood, accessed, traced and tracked. #sustainability #resilience #TransitionTownScotland

26 people from the Moray and Highland joining food resilience mapping with Iain Findlay & Isabella Guerrini @Transion Town Forres pic.twitter.com/ly9YUAqkst Mapping and Analysis of the Resilience of the Food Supply Chain in Moray and Highland bioregion in Scotland. Last Friday, Aurora Consulting Integrative Solutions for Sustainability &tsiMORAY, held a workshop on defining sustainability that looked at the four key principles to achieving a sustainable world. These key pri