News and events published on the Eco-innovation Community Platform

• New topic on the forum - Demonstration projects: Could "ecological intensification" sustainably increase crop yields while protecting ecosystems?
• News - "Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) featured on Euronews (video)"
• New event - "Adaptation Futures 2016: the fourth international climate change adaptation conference"
• New event - "How Constraints make us Grow - Society in Transition"

Austria's Federal Procurement Agency has gained Europe-wide recognition for innovation-friendly use of public procurement. In October 2015, the agency picked up a Public Procurement of Innovation award from the Procurement of Innovation Platform. By using their purchasing power to choose environmentally friendly goods, services and works, public authorities can make an important contribution to sustainable consumption and production.

To tackle economic and environmental issues together, we need eco-innovation - what does it mean for you? We asked people from the policy and business worlds, from all over Europe, to tell us what it means to them.

A European award scheme for innovative social projects shows that social innovation often goes hand in hand with environmental innovation. The European Social Innovation Competition gave out its first awards in 2013, and the scheme is now getting ready to open its fourth edition, with a launch event in Amsterdam on 25 February 2016.