Projects

Project goal

The goal of the project „Contribution of the Waste Management to the Copper Metabolism of Austria“ is to identify the quantitatively most relevant copper-containing goods that circulate in the Austrian economy as well as to define their mass flows and stocks in production, supply and consumption. Additionally, the waste generation that occurs during raw material extraction, production and consumption is roughly estimated.

Project goal 

The project aims at identifying PVC-free alternatives for the most relevant PVC-containing articles applied in the Viennese hospitals and geriatric centres, and creating  the basics towards an efficient PVC phasing-out. With the data available as a solid background, the hospitals-members of the Viennese Hospital Association are sensitised, informed and given due support by means of well-founded PR and training campaigns. Tailored training materials, e.g. folders, leaflets and posters as well as information events, serve the targeted information and training at the hospital wards, completed by PVC-free alternatives identified.

Project goal 

The goal is to  to create the basics for an efficient phasing-out of PVC-containing medical articles, considering the current state (2004) registered in an individual campaign. Together with the Viennese Hospital Association, PVC-free alternatives are identified and introduced at selected wards. The latter practice-related test serves an enhanced use of PVC-free medical articles in future.

Project goal

Goal of the project is to analyse the action need, and to prepare a concept for the establishment and the structure of a “Carinthia Transfer Centre for Sustainability”. The target group of this centre are the enterprises (the majority of them being SMEs), who are members of the networks of the Development Agency Carinthia, namely the networks “Wood”, “Plastics”, “Energy and Environment” as well as the “Carinthia Worth to Live in” (“Lebensland Kärnten”) network being currently established.