New task together with partner concern
ConPolicy takes over office of the CDR-Initiative
In the last five years, the CDR-Initiative of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) has set a variety of impulses on how companies can get involved in the digital transformation to take the concerns of consumers into account (so-called Corporate Digital Responsibility). Therefore, it has implemented numerous activities with the participating companies. Following a successful launch phase, the CDR-Initiative is now entering the expansion phase. Since January 2023, this next important development step has been supported by an office jointly operated by the partners ConPolicy Institute and concern GmbH.
ConPolicy is looking forward to this new task. In the current year, the initiative's program includes the publication of a white paper on the topic of disinformation, the new edition of the CDR Impulse event series starting in May, a 'Digital Data Cleaning' campaign in September, and the CDR Conference in autumn.
Further information on the CDR Impulses and the opportunity to register for the compelling presentations can be found here.
The joint "Digital Data Cleaning" campaign is designed to inspire employees in companies and other organizations to tidy up their digital lives and to support them in doing so. The office of the CDR-Initiative offers support in the implementation and is looking forward to more participants. Further information on the campaign can be found here.
If you are interested in receiving regular updates on the activities of the CDR initiative, we invite you to subscribe to the newsletter or follow the office on LinkedIn.
Strengthening local consumer advice
ConPolicy and VVA organize EU seminar
Traditional approaches to consumer advice have a problem: they struggle to reach vulnerable consumer groups. Against this background, EU Member States are experimenting with approaches of local consumer advice. With the help of this type of consumer advice, precisely those people who have a low self-help potential should be reached.
Within the framework of the New Consumer Agenda, the EU Commission has set itself the goal of strengthening initiatives that offer local consumer advice especially for those consumer groups that for structural or personal reasons do not have access to advice services so far.
In this context, the EU Commission commissioned a study. This study shows which approaches of local consumer advice exist in the EU Member States and which success factors can be derived from these initiatives. Together with VVA, the ConPolicy Institute carried out this study last year. The results were published in spring.
Secondly, the EU Commission commissioned VVA and the ConPolicy Institute to organize an EU-wide seminar. This seminar should firstly show why local consumer advice is so important. Secondly, initiatives from the different EU Member States should present themselves and exchange their approaches in the sense of a good practice exchange. Thirdly, proposals for action were to be identified.
This seminar took place on April 25, 2023, with representatives from all EU Member States. ConPolicy Managing Director, Prof. Dr. Christian Thorun, moderated the event.
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