Are you searching for ways to improve your sustainability performance? Be reassured, you’re not alone -and you don’t have to reinvent the wheel!
We have a history working with local authorities – villages, towns, cities and regions – as well as private companies, Universities, schools and other organisations from around the world. With our help you will be able to tap into the vast pool of knowledge and local experiences accumulated worldwide.
aiforia GmbH and aiforia – ecoculture e.V. dispose of comprehensive competencies. Below you will find an overview of the services we offer to make this happen:
STUDY TOURS
As official partner agency of the Green City Freiburg, we feel privileged to be able to invite you to come and learn about the sustainability hotspots of the city and its region, such as: eco-model district Vauban, plus-energy buildings, integrated mobility concept, ecological farms, citizen-based eco-power stations, renewable energy applications and much more. We organise interactive tours and workshops for local authority representatives, councillors as well as NGOs, school classes etc., tailored to your needs and interests.
SUPPORT FOR FUNDED PROJECTS
For a local authority – or for any private or public entity – taking part in local and international projects offers many opportunities: an effective way for you to develop and implement your own ideas, to discuss them with partners from other cultural backgrounds, learn alternative ways to solve problems, market your organisation internationally, and make valuable contacts. It may even be a way for you to fund your working resources.
However, tender proposals use a complicated language, are time-consuming, and can be a daunting task for the inexperienced. At aiforia we support your organisation all along the different steps of project realisation, from its initial conceptualisation to its implementation and dissemination. For long-term partnerships, we also develop and coordinate multi-stakeholder projects to support mutual learning between different actors worldwide.
LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL EVENTS
Workshops and seminars can be splendid opportunities for intensive, focussed exchange between different stakeholders. We have the means to make your events efficient and worthwhile, be they participatory workshops, seminars, expert talks or larger conferences. In a result-oriented manner, we help you to define an appropriate concept for your event, draft the agenda, select and invite international experts, actively support exchange amongst participants (through methods such as world café, fish bowl, future search workshops, charrette etc.). All of this, of course, will be embedded in a strategy to make your event sustainable even in terms of resource consumption.
PEER TO PEER EXCHANGE
What better way for learning and self-improvement than discussing your ideas with “critical friends” who are in a similar situation? We coordinate interaction with your peers through the organisation of meetings, exchange and adaptation of documents and facilitation of reviewing processes. Upon your specific request, we will find the most suitable partner for you to learn from and exchange ideas and experiences with in a bilateral fashion, both virtually or through on-site visits.
As sustainability agents we explore the world for you!