Completed Projects

Sustainably Successful? Analysing, Measuring and Managing Corporate Sustainability with the Sustainable Value Approach (NeW - Nachhaltig erfolgreich Wirtschaften)

Project Overview:

The project ”NeW – Nachhaltig erfolgreich Wirtschaften“ (English title: Sustainably successful? Analysing, measuring and ma­na­­ging corporate sustainability with the Sustainable Value approach) runs for 27 months and is funded by the German Fe­de­ral Ministry of Education and Research. It is a cooperation between IZT, Scottish Sustainable Development Research Centre (SDRC) in Forres, Wuppertal-Institut and four partner companies. In this project the newly developed Sustainable Value approach is applied to German companies on a large scale and tested in practice for the first time.

 

With Sustainable Value corporate sustainability performance can measured in monetary terms and managed in value-oriented way. The overall objective of the project is to apply and test-run this approach in the corporate context. In its first part of the project, the sustainability performance of 28 German companies has been assessed using the Sustainable Value approach. During a second phase of the project, the approach will be applied and tested in corporate prac­tice in different management areas. The third part is mainly concerned with dissemination and transfer of know how.

 

The project encompasses the following activities:

 

  • Monetary assessment of the sustainability performance of at least 25 German companies using the Sustainable Value approach.
  • Publication of a survey with the results of the sustainability assessment of at least 25 German companies.
  • Test run of the Sustainable Value approach in different management areas together with for partner companies.
  • Publication of a practitioner handbook on the application of Sustainable Value in corporate practice.
  • Transfer workshops in different German cities.
  • Development of a web-based Sustainable Value assessment tool that can be used by companies for their own Sustainable Value assessments.

http://www.new-projekt.de/

Project duration:

2006-2008

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Funded by:

German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

More information:

More information on the project as well as the project results can be found at: www.new-projekt.de