Workshop series

Target groups of the Workshops

Management, Product developer, Environmental Officer, Environmental Consultants resp. people interested in environmental issues. Group size: 10-20 persons

Contents

Introduction into the topic sustainable product design/ECODESIGN by means of product examples. Guidance to recognition of chances and possibilities offered by applying ECODESIGN. In addition, the the ECODESIGN PILOT will be demonstrated and applied.

Identifying of optimizing potentials for your products and derivating strategies and measures for the application of ECODESIGN in your company.

It is possible to go into detail if you are interested in a specific topic.

Methods

With means of simple product examples ECODESIGN will be experienced, ECODESIGN criterias will be established in groups and product improvements will be developed together.

In addition to environmental knowledge basically the integration of ECODESIGN into the product developing process will be demonstraded and practiced.

Contact

Ao. Univ. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Wolfgang Wimmer

TU-Wien Institute for Engineering Design (E307), Getreidemarkt 9, A 1060 Wien, Tel.: +43 1 58801-30744, Fax.: +43 1 58801-30799, email: wimmer@ecodesign.at

Selected International ECODESIGN Workshops

- "ECODESIGN seminar for environmental experts from ASEAN countries" for the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Magdeburg, Germany

- "ECODESIGN for Electrical Appliances, Toy and Houseware Industries" for the Hong Kong Productivity Council, HKPC in Kowloon, Hong Kong

- "ECODESIGN - Sustainable Product Development" for the Ajou University in Suwon, South Korea

- Ecodesign Workshop at the Youth Environmental Summit of the Alliance for Global Sustainability, YES 2002, Braunwald, Switzerland

- ECODESIGN Training Course for the Ugandan Cleaner Production Center in Kampala, UCPC, Uganda

- "ECODESIGN workshop" for the Korean Chamber of Commerce in Seoul, KCC, South Korea

- Company workshop "ECODESIGN" for the enterprise Honeywell Inc. in Shenzhen, China

- In-house workshop "Innovative products through ECODESIGN" for the CP-Unit at the headquarter of UNIDO, Vienna

• Contact For further information please contact the ECODESIGN Team