Economic Partnerships
WiPa: Gaining a foothold in Africa
For Dutch flower and food plant expert Delphy, sub-Saharan Africa is an important promising market. Several national teams prepare the terrain. The Austrian Development Agency supports a Delphy consultancy project in Kenya.
Cool solutions: A few degrees cooler
Because the earth is getting warmer, people need more cooling. Even simple structural measures can help to reduce heat stress.
CO2 certificates: Not just hot air
Many companies want to make a contribution to climate protection. One way that is not undisputed is offsetting your own greenhouse gas emissions. New rules that were adopted at the World Climate Conference in Glasgow make the market clearer. And local social entrepreneurs are also successfully involved in the sale of CO2 certificates.
Plumbing
Sanitation: Small business, big business
Because the world cannot wait until everyone has a classic toilet, resourceful companies are turning to alternative solutions.
Economic Partnerships
WiPa: 250 sofas and more
The project and hotel outfitter Foness Designwerk from Vienna offered two furniture manufacturers in Vushtri, Kosovo, development opportunities in cooperation with the Austrian Development Agency. One got out, the other took off.
SDG pioneers 2021
SDG pioneers: working with an agenda
The SDG Pioneers 2021 show how sustainability can actually be implemented in core business.
Alliance to End Plastic Waste
Together against plastic pollution
The Alliance to End Plastic Waste wants to take action against plastic waste and preserve plastics as a resource - for example with Project STOP.
Economic Partnerships
Retrieval of the forest in Albania
The cellulose fiber group Lenzing has opened a new chapter in its commitment to sustainable business with a reforestation project in Albania. The Austrian Development Agency supports the initiative.
Raw Materials
Baobab: Africa's superfruit
Africa's imposing baobab trees thrive in harsh conditions and can live for more than a thousand years. Its vitamin and fiber-rich fruits - in powder form - are being consumed more and more frequently in Europe and the USA. But baobab has not yet made its big market breakthrough.
Economic Partnerships
WiPa: pasture instead of coal
An international consortium is helping Serbia to expand renewable energies. The promoters expect a first breakthrough from the development of a biomass market. The Austrian Development Agency ADA is supporting the project in the pilot phase.
multifaceted
The longstanding Africa correspondent Bartholomäus Grill outlines a multifaceted and thoroughly personal image of Africa.
Solution (manual) book
"Frontiers in Social Innovation" is a practical and multi-faceted guide for social enterprises.