Sustainability
greenSME understands that the road to sustainability can be long and complex. By allowing companies to address one of the three sustainability pillars below, the chances for successfully integrating a new Advanced Technology (AT) or social innovation increase.
- Environmental: Reduced environmental impact through energy efficiency, material optimisation and water management.
- Social: Establishment of worker upskilling opportunities to increase employability and efficient person-technology collaboration and governance reform for worker well-being.
- Economic: Ensuring profitability in the long-term without negative environmental and social impacts.
Advanced Technology
The EU has identified 16 areas, known as the Advanced Technologies for Industry, which focus on technologies enabling industries to manage a shift to a low-carbon and knowledge-based economy successfully.
Social Innovation
Social innovation is addressed from a company perspective, focusing on delivering non-technological (organisational, interpersonal relations) solutions for sustainability challenges within a given company. For example, developing new management practices for more inclusivity and diversity.