Context

The different options for sustainable development demands interdisciplinary learning and integrated approaches.
The knowledge upgrading, the development of training techniques, the opportunities of learning organisations delineate a huge source of human resources for innovate policies, processes and products to facilitate the success of policies and actions of Local authorities, Governments, businesses, Ngos and citizens.
The know-how and the attitudes should be oriented to an integrated approach, through a combining use of professional up-dating skills, experimentation, pilot projects, team-works, self-organisation, self-training, networking projects, audit of learning processes and optimisation of Capacities building.

Our activities

Since many years Focus Lab organise and manage training courses in partnership with different research centres and Universities, on different topics as environmental management for local authorities and businesses, participation and facilitation of participatory processes to sustainable development addresses to students, officers and public administrators through integrated and interactive tools, simulations, self-evaluation and with the asset of multi-medial tools as training support.

Issues:

• Governance policies for sustainable development
• Environmental management tools for local authorities
• Environmental management systems, LCA, Green Marketing, voluntary agreement, Green Purchasing, environmental accountancy, social audit, reporting on sustainability for companies and local authorities, indicators for sustainability
• Multi-stakeholders managing tools and participatory processes
• Communications and sustainability (strategies, tools and messages)
• Promotion of partnerships