These articles and the EcoAP website are available in 5 languages:        
21 May 2014

News and events published on the EcoAP Community Platform

Go to the EcoAP community platform
Promoting green behaviour: don't mention the environment!

Every hotel has them: notices in the bathroom informing guests that they can do their bit for the environment by reusing their towels, rather than expecting clean towels every day. Usually the notice contains a standard appeal, something like: Save our planet: every day millions of litres of water are used to wash towels that have been used only once. Researchers, however, have wondered if these appeals make any real difference.

Read more »
Environmental technology verification: an emerging discipline

Hopes are high for ETV – environmental technology verification. This emerging practice can help the developers of eco-innovative technologies gain market acceptance by providing an independent assessment of the veracity of their claims about the performance and environmental benefits of their technologies. This verification can be used for many purposes: to provide evidence to the first customers and to investors that the technology really does what it claims, to differentiate from competing technologies, to avoid repeating the same tests for different customers or to support a bid for a public contract.

Read more »
European regions bring innovation to life

The Swedish region Värmland has won the 2014 Regional Innovation Award organised by the Assembly of European Regions (AER) following the building of a sustainable hospital in Karlstad, Sweden.

Read more »
Follow us on Twitter! @EU_ecoinno Follow us on Twitter! @EU_ecoinno
Hot news
New Eco-Innovation Observatory Scoreboard published!
Read more »
Enabling new forms of cross-sector collaboration by Pre-commercial Procurement and Public Procurement of Innovative Solutions will take place 26-27 June in Brussels.
Read more »
Call for Papers for 2014 World Resource Forum in Peru
Read more »
Check out the newly extended Innovation Seeds web portal, which includes an eco-innovation funding guide and policy library
Read more »
Upcoming events
Green Week 2014 Brussels, Belgium 3 - 5 June 2014
Read more »
Deconstruction Forum Madrid, Spain 12 - 14 June 2014
Read more »
European Sustainable Energy Week Brussels, Belgium 23 - 27 June 2014
Read more »
Water Innovation Europe 2014 Brussels, Belgium 25 - 26 June 2014
Read more »
Subscribe
If you wish to receive this email please subscribe.
EcoAp Communication Contact us at: contact@ecoapwebsite.eu If you no longer wish to receive this email please unsubscribe