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SEE Policy booklet:Realising Sustainability and Innovation through Design

Launch of the second SEE Policy Booklet May 2010: Realising Sustainability and Innovation through Design: Making it Happen in Communities, Industry, Public Sector and Policy-Making.

The understanding and application of sustainability and innovation are expanding, as is the extent of the interconnectivity between the two. In both the private and public sector, design is emerging as the interface between sustainability and innovation as a tool that can engage stakeholders and align economic, social and environmental considerations. Design can contribute to fostering a culture of sustainability and innovation in communities, industry, the public sector and policy-making using creative and user-centred processes.

Since policies for sustainability and innovation are expected to serve an increasing array of purposes, this second SEE Policy Booklet aims to demonstrate how design can incite a sustainable and innovative mindset among all players in society. For communities, industry, public sector and policy-making the publication outlines the rationale behind policy intervention, explores how design can be employed to realise sustainability and innovation, provides illustrative case studies and puts forward policy proposals.

This publication is one of the outputs of the SEE project, a network of eleven European partners engaging with European, national and regional governments to integrate design into public policy. The project is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the INTERREG IVC programme. This is the second of four SEE Policy Booklets to be published between 2009 and 2011. An electronic copy of the booklet is available to download from the SEE website: project.org/publications.... If you would like to receive future SEE Policy Booklets please email info@seeproject.org.

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European Design Day 2009

As part of the EU Commission’s European Year of Creativity and Innovation, BEDA has elected to celebrate October 1st as European Design Day.

The main thinking behind this is to highlight the importance of design as an important innovation tool for European industry.

Over the past few years, BEDA has worked hard to persuade the European Commission (EC) to include design on the innovation agenda.

The result so far has been an extensive and unique Staff Working Document from EU’s Enterprise Directorate, which was published early this summer for open consultation. The document clearly identifies design as an important tool for innovation. The open consultation generated an impressive number of responses from all over Europe, and even outside Europe.

BEDA president Jan R. Stavik reports: “The European Commission sees design as crucial in bridging the gap between creativity and innovation today. We have achieved a genuine breakthrough for design in Europe, which can boost European competitiveness in the future.”