We are a collective of like-minded entrepreneurs, consultants and scholars from organisations that are working towards accelerating innovation and sustainability. We have come together for Fashion for Change to make an impact in the EU fashion industry.
With 200+ staff members and around 1,200 students, its practice-based Fashion, Textile, and Accessory Design curricula have a specific focus on design for sustainability. EKA has previously been involved in the development of EcoDesign Audit – a diagnostic tool for SMEs to assess their eco-design capabilities – as well as a teaching resource repository to further contribute to the sustainable transformation of (fashion) design education.
Ecopreneur.eu is the European Sustainable Business Federation currently seven national associations representing about 3000 sustainable companies – mostly SMEs.
A member of the Coordination Group of the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform, Ecopreneur.eu is the only international business organisation in Brussels committed to ambitious measures, rules and regulations for a low-carbon circular economy.
Ecopreneur.eu and our members bring concrete experience from pioneering companies into the political debate, show best practice examples and represent the needs of green SMEs in a credible way.
CIVITTA provides management consulting and data analytics services to corporations, start-ups, SMEs, governments and NGOs. CIVITTA helps companies to challenge their own industries by becoming more innovative, efficient and dynamic. Areas of expertise are entrepreneurship support, market analyses, business planning, innovation management, commercialization and public tenders consultancy services to the SMEs, designers and start-ups, mentoring and coaching and managing investor programmes.
Since 2017, Katalista Ventures collaborates with companies, governmental institutions and NGOs globally to build capacity in the sustainability ecosystem, provide sustainable innovation advisory, and help develop resilience with a triple top line business model. Its portfolio consists of high-impact startups focused on developing solutions to global grand challenges and sustainable development goals.