IECAD Projects

As part of Germany’s National Meteorological Service, the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), summer celebration, the AG Nachhaltigkeit offered interactive activities focusing on biodiversity & resource conservation. Highlights included a beekeeping tour, locally produced honey, beeswax wrap making & a sustainability rally with eight stations. A swap shelf encouraged reuse. The activities raised awareness of sustainable mobility, energy and water conservation, waste separation and resource efficiency.

KLIMAready is a joint project of seven Hamburg clusters supporting organizations in addressing the opportunities and challenges of climate change and developing concrete measures for climate protection and adaptation. Key areas include energy transformation, emissions reduction, and long-term climate resilience – enabling organizations to anticipate change and act proactively.

The project, organised by the Umweltteam at Sport-Thieme GmbH, aims to make selected green areas on the company grounds more nature-friendly and create more space for nature and biodiversity. Together with NABU, suitable areas were identified and planted during two planting days. Our apprentices played an active role, gaining hands-on experience while learning more about Sport-Thieme’s environmental goals.

Since 2020, the monthly online format “Meet & Green”, organised by Team Green / Meet & Green at Vodafone GmbH, has been bringing sustainability to life at Vodafone. In 30-minute sessions, different speakers share knowledge on environmental, social and economic sustainability topics. With more than 50 events and an average of 100 participants per session, the format raises awareness, inspires action and encourages exchange. A key feature is that Meet & Green is run entirely without a budget.

The annual AGN Days 2026, organised by colleagues from Occupational Safety, Health Protection and the Sustainability Team of Hamburger Energienetze GmbH, took place from 19–25 August. The week featured inspiring talks, interactive activities, and health and sustainability initiatives. All three dimensions of sustainability – social, environmental, and governance – were addressed through a diverse programme available both online and on-site at the main locations.

The OGP for Sustainability community is a voluntary community that contributes to Orange’s social and environmental objectives by building bridges with various stakeholders and acting through measurable and concrete actions. Members: 200+ OGP from all cohorts, diverse entities and expertises. Impact: 10+ taskforces finalized, 3+ social programs initiated by our members, celebrations, anniversary events with conferences, roundtables, awareness workshops. Building bridges for impactful change.

A quarterly newsletter on sustainable logistics, written and produced independently, shared company-wide via Viva Engage and emailed directly to around 200 people across supply chain, sales, and sustainability. It combines internal and external case studies, market developments, and practical knowledge to build awareness of sustainability in logistics decision-making — running for 1.5 years so far.

“Re – Become a Changemaker” is a quarterly, one-day workshop held at the Vodafone Campus in Düsseldorf for around 25 employees from across different roles and departments, with a particular focus on leadership. Co-created by TeamGreen and The People Network, it fosters courage, community, and a proactive mindset for a regenerative future, combining Theory U, the Regenerative DNA Wheel, and hands-on experiences.

To strengthen the role of the Sustainability Collective within the organisation, a regular Steering Committee was established with the CEO and other members of management. Every two months, members of the Collective meet with management to share progress, raise important topics, make requests and discuss issues requiring management decisions. Members of the Collective participate on a rotating basis, depending on current priorities and responsibilities.

DIVIS builds video systems for freight and warehouse logistics. Components like mainboards, controllers and hard drives used to be scrapped along with their metal server housings at end of life. Since newer, more powerful components often still fit older housings, DIVIS now reuses them instead of discarding them — cutting e-waste and conserving resources.

The Nature Garden at the Schindler Campus in Berlin provides a diverse habitat for wild bees, insects, and small animals. Working together, school students and employees created wildflower beds, a sandarium, a deadwood hedge, and an insect hotel. With additional features such as early-blooming flowers and a bird feeder equipped with a camera, the garden serves as a place for learning, connecting, and exploring biodiversity.

SelfPower is an energy self-reliance advisor app for individuals, small businesses,, resturant owner and farmers across nine countries but also custom location around world, free of cost. The system runs a four-layer machine-learning pipeline that turns three structured inputs location, customer type, and an energy module mix into a personalised plan with cost, savings, and self-sufficiency figures, and renders the result as a multilingual customer report in six different languages.