The Centre for Sustainable Design

If you are an inventor, start-up, service or product manufacturing company – a small or medium-sized business, with less than 250 employees, based in the South East region (Surrey, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, West Sussex, East Sussex, Kent) - you may be eligible for up to two days of free consultancy support.

The Centre for Sustainable Design is able to provide free research and advice related to greener product design and development, funding, marketing and commercialisation to eligible small or medium sized enterprises, through the Eco-MIND project, with EU funding from the INTERREG IVA “2 Seas” Programme. Consultants from The Centre for Sustainable Design (CfSD) have worked multi-nationally in electronics, automotive, engineering, building, finance and marketing services industries in research, development and commercialisation capacities.

Support can help with:

• greening of existing products or services
• development of new greener products or services

This might include:
• identifying opportunities to reduce costs through environmental improvements
• identifying new market opportunities
• developing new product and service concepts
• identifying the implications of product-related environmental legislation
• exploring opportunities related to low carbon product or services

Benefits of CfSD’s approach:

• over 20 years experience in business sustainability
• industry focused
• access to regional, national and international networks
• multi-disciplinary innovation skills

Events

If you are a small or medium-sized business with less than 250 employees and are based in the Surrey, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, West Sussex, East Sussex, Kent you are eligible for free attendance at the following events:

Month	Year	Events	Timing	Venue
2nd October	2009	SMILE - Casper Gray, Damien Jones and David Parker - As Good as New: Product Design and Remanufacture	12.00 - 2.00	UCA, Farnham, Surrey
24th November	2009	Sustainable Building Products & Technologies	1.30 - 6.00	Bricks & Bread, Aldershot, Hampshire
26th February	2010	Responsible Design, Entrepreneurship and Leadership	12.00 - 3.00	UCA, Farnham, Surrey
15th April	2010	The Eco-innovation Workshop	1.00 - 6.00	UCA, Farnham, Surrey
29th June	2010	Eco-retrofit: Implications for Sustainable Building Products & Technologies	8.00 - 10.30	Blake Lapthorn, Eastleigh, Hampshire
1st July	2010	Austerity Business - Doing More with Less Through Eco-Innovation	2.30 - 5.00	UCA, Farnham, Surrey
December	2010	SMILE - Speaker 2	12.00 - 2.00	UCA, Farnham, Surrey
February	2011	Eco-innovation	1.30 - 5.30	TBC
March	2011	SMILE - Speaker 3	12.00 - 2.00	UCA, Farnham, Surrey
June	2011	Eco-design for Electronics	1.30 - 5.30	TBC
July	2011	SMILE - Speaker 4	12.00 - 2.00	UCA, Farnham, Surrey
December	2011	SMILE - Speaker 5	12.00 - 2.00	UCA, Farnham, Surrey

The document reflects the author's views. The INTERREG IVA 2 Seas Programme Authorities are not
liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

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