The kick-off event of the new series was combined with the “denkstatt summer party” held at Labstelle Vienna. Evelyn Grill, a popular Viennese textile artist decorated the whole location in- and outdoors with her beautiful and extraordinary work. Click here for more pics.

On the 4th and 5th of June 2018, denkstatt Romania and the city of Arad organized the „Arad Energy Day 2018 – 7th Edition“. The event took place at the Art Academy „Sabin Drăgoi“ and consisted of two parts: the information workshop on the topic of energy and the art competition. Click here for more info.

„Welcome to Sodom“ – a documentary about electronic waste ending up in Africa. denkstatt invited clients and partners to an exclusive preview of the awarded documentary done by austrian moviemakers. Producer and Director were happy to answer questions by the moved audience and gave an insight about our western way of disposing electronic waste. A movie theater in the viennese city centre was booked on December 11th, 2018 – over 60 visitors including a camera team of austrian TV channel ORF enjoyed the impressive pictures.

On January 23^rd  2019, nearly a dozen participants met at the DD JOGA STUDIO in Bratislava, Slovakia to celebrate  the 25^th anniversary of denkstatt with an intense yoga-lecture led by Janka Dúžiková. Representatives of companies from various fields such as energy, technology and IT gathered under the motto of the event: “Take time for your self and cooperation and change the view on the principles of sustainability in both, professional and personal life. Have a look at some of the pictures from the event:

Water supply and industries in Austria:

Drought or floodings – water is affecting society and industries not only in developing countries but also in Austria and CEE countries. On february 13th denkstatt hosted a round table discussion dealing with the topic „the value of water“ in Viennas „Motto am Fluss“. Our experts met representatives from retail and public services and discussed scientific papers as well as common business issues concerning water supply and scarcity. Our guests were happy to have room to share their experience as well as receive inputs from denkstatt on how to deal with this environmental topic.

Are we chained to our office chairs?

denkstatt Bulgaria hosted an event for clients and partners dedicated to the beauty of natural human movement. The human body is one of the greatest pieces of art created by nature, but daily life leads to stiffness of the body, even pain, and difficulties in mobility. We often become “hostages” of our bodies due to prolonged sitting in office chairs and less opportunities for physical activities during the day. During our event, we showed our guests different ways of controlling their body, as well as demonstrated the feeling of freedom in motion and explained ways in which they can maintain a strong presence of energy in their everyday lives. This training in mobility was complimentary to our partners, aimed at providing knowledge & practices for purposeful movement that facilitate improvement of each persons’ physical well-being.

Business talks about: Circular Economy

denkstatt Bulgaria recently organized a discussion on the topic “Business talks about … the Circular Economy. This important and hot topic attracted more than 40 business and media representatives. Industry organizations, branch associations, and companies discussed the expectations, challenges and opportunities facing businesses stemming from the circular economy agenda.

One of the main topics discussed was related to bridging the skills gap when it comes to circular economy implementation. Experts from denkstatt’s team presented the EU Circular Economy package and related requirements, as well as the latest news from Brussels to do with packaging and plastics. Another focus of the event was the concept of industrial symbiosis and opportunities for implementation in Bulgaria.

The event took place in the inspiring atmosphere of an interesting place – a specially created cozy hall for business events decorated with paintings of famous Bulgarian artists. The artworks on display in the collection have been purchased over the years from auctions supporting charity causes.

denkstatt organized this event in partnership with the Bulgarian Industrial Association – the biggest business organisation in the country.

Business Breakfast in Bratislava

On April 25th 2019 denkstatt Slovakia organized a Business breakfast on Sustainability in Food and Beverage industry. Representatives of production companies, retail and trade promoting organization gained overview on current global trends and challenges for the sector and joined an enthusiastic discussion with the denkstatt team. Topics such as adaptation strategies to climate change, shifts in consumer behaviour, packaging and food waste were discussed in detail for the Slovak market.

Breakfast with Prof. Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker

Vienna hosted the pioneer of sustainable business actions, biologist, author and Club of Rome member Prof. Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker and we had breakfast with him. Topics like climate change, world industries, politics and capitalism were discussed in an exklusive round table. Participants wer able to lay down their challenges and got great feedback from an intellectual giant like Weizsäcker.

We need unconventional decisions to solve todays problem, that is why we chose a rather unconventional location for our event.

denkstatt recommends having breakfast at „phil“ in Vienna.

Let’s go for a walk and take a look at the urban district „Viertel Zwei“

denkstatt and the Projectmanagers of value one took a group of partners and decision makers for a smart urban walk in Vienna.

On a beautiful day in May we were able to take a look at the 40.000 sqm area that is modern, smart designed. Business and housing space is closed to common traffic and still very much in the centre of vienna. Sustainable planning of urban districts is mandatory for well-being and longlasting buildings. denkstatts experts were able to inform the crowd and learn from the project.

Circular Economy! Or are we just spinning in a cycle?

In the revered wine tavern, 10er Marie in Vienna Ottakring, representatives of the packaging industry and trade met to discuss the future challenges posed by the EU plastic strategy. On the tavern bench, Christoff Scharff of the ARA and Christian Holyer of the Federal Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism were present to discuss the growing trends and current developments in Austrian resource management.

At denkstatt we meet our guests outside of the typical business locations, so we’re able to exchange and understand their concerns and experiences.

TeachSUS Event  in Bucharest

We are striving to change mentalities and behaviors in education!

With the launch of TeachSUS project – Teaching and Educating for Sustainability, we thought that the input of stakeholders’ feedback on „an easy approach to education and the transmission of positive values ​​to younger generations“ would be highly needed.
During a two-day workshop held in Bucharest on 7-8^th of May, the denkstatt team, the Polytechnic University of Timişoara team and the guests (old and actual denkstatt clients, teachers, representatives from Romanian authorities and institutions) discussed important elements on new ways of informing and educating the younger generation to assimilate knowledge on aspects of environmental and social responsibility.

The aim was to create a new training structure, based on new modern methods, a structure to bring information quickly and easily to those who will contribute to the change without deviating from their role as educators and being constrained to change the curriculum of a specific subject.

Denkstatt Romania is trying to encourage the „Thinking out of the box„, which will result in a freedom in thinking, imagination, creativity, flexibility and belonging to values ​​that can lead to change.

Is it enough for employees to feel well at their workplace in order to be engaged and effective?

A denkstatt Event for IT companies in Sofia:

When it comes to taking care of employees, standards have undoubtedly been raised quite a lot by IT companies – most of them attract employees and indulge them with all kinds of additional bonuses. 

We focus on establishing an organizational environment and measures for achieving well-being, starting from the belief that people need to be at work with their full capacity as personalities, and not just with their roles in the company. People need to be healthy, emotionally stable and confident, mentally focused and challenged to develop. Achieving these things in the workplace is possible.

An opportunity to share experiences for the Upper Austrian Industry

 

An opportunity to share experiences for the Upper Austrian Industry

 

Sustainable investments, risk management and climate change

 

Exclusive Partner Gathering with Wine Tasting Show

denkstatt Hungary organized a partner meeting for our biggest and most important partners’ leaders where we invited a winemaker to hold a wine tasting show. It was held  in a photo gallery called Faur Zsofi Galeria in Budapest on the 18th June.

First our Managing Director Zsombor Ferjancsik held a short opening speech, then the winemaker held a presentation about chemical-free winemaking and sustainable farming meanwhile participants were tasting the winemaker’s own made wines.

After this, people were deepening their acquaintance through conversing about business and the value of wine.

A new tree for Budapest

The Ecovillage Foundation organized the competition. Trees could have been voted that play an important role in the life of the nomination community.

The nomination was made online on the website https://evfaja.okotars.hu/ .

The purpose of the Tree of the Year competition is to raise people’s awareness of the environment through the role of trees in nature. The competition is linked to the International European Year Tree Competition organized by the Ecotec’s Czech sister organization, Nadace Partnerstvi.

We have chosen a tree in the garden of our office in its shadow we used to keep team buildings and partner meetings.

 

 

 

Sustainability – what are the smaller businesses expecting?

In collaboration with the local office of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce and the tax advisory FAL-CON, denkstatt hosted an Austrian Business Circle on Sustainability and SMEs in Bratislava on June 12th. Roughly 60 representatives of Austrian subsidiaries in Slovakia, German speaking companies, government bodies and institutions attended the event, some of them travelling over 400 km to hear the inspirational talk on current sustainability trends, reporting  and relevance and joined the vivid discussion afterwards.

How is the upcoming energy transition changing our every day life?