Our Approach

Our digital ecosystem is designed to address the sustainability needs of European industrial enterprises, providing incentives and support to make your business agile and green.  The platform provides industrial enterprises and sustainability advisors with access to cutting edge innovation and sustainability training, support, and assessment tools assembled by consortium partners. In addition, enterprises will be able to connect with Sustainability centres and access to financial expertise to help in the implementation of their sustainability transition plans, action steps, and recommendations. Our sustainability ecosystem fosters the opportunity for successful collaboration among industrial partners and enterprises, providing sustainability implementation learnings from other sectors.

Explore the ever-growing STAGE ecosystem by looking at our factsheet (as of February 2024).

We provide European industrial enterprises and sustainability advisors with online and onsite access to advanced technologies innovation and decentralised open-source sustainability training courses and support. Our goal is to help companies to address practical sustainability issues, such as to determine their ‘product footprint’ data, or as to how to incorporate sustainability data in tender documents, as well as the steps required to meet EU sustainability legislation, such as the new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). Based on preliminary sustainability assessments, we identify suitable training programs which will help to address the sustainability needs of individual enterprises. Interested companies can then apply to obtain additional in-depth advisory and support services, which will include the identification of sustainability gaps in their business, as well as potential approaches to address these gaps.

Based on the in-company identification of sustainability needs, if required, we can facilitate easy access to funding for the most promising industrial enterprises to support their sustainable transition to agile and green enterprise. In line with EU Taxonomy and Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFRD), these enterprises will receive financial analysis, planning, support, and advisory services in arranging the most relevant financing for the sustainable transition implementation plans based on their individual needs. The objective is that through the supports provided to individual companies that European industry meets its ambitious sustainability goals.