ICSE

The International Center for Sustainable Excellence (ICSE) in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, will be the first Center that shows visitors, participants and users how knowledge and skills in the field of sustainability will together shape our future and makes them experience this. Sustainability in a wide perspective but with the help of concrete examples (showcases) from trade and industry, universities and researchers, and social organizations. The center gives an insight into a new world where respect, trust and openness form the new central idea.

The aim of the Center is to make sustainability real and tangible, to show how developments come about and what it takes. In this way, visitors are handed ideas to make sustainability self-evident and a part of their every day life.

The purpose of the Center is also to let all participants cooperate in order to come to new developments or insights. This can be on a product or production level, but also at the level of corporate management, design, life style, work and housing.

The participants of the ICSE consist of local, national and international centers of knowledge, organizations and companies that lead the way with respect to sustainable developments.
All together they bring along a world wide network which is necessary to find solutions for the future.

Thus in the ICSE, projects in the cradle to cradle field and other applications of sustainability and sustainable entrepreneurship come together.

In this way, the ICSE will become a source of knowledge from where solutions may well up that are practically admissible to trade and industry, to public authorities and to the individual citizen. Because only through cooperation, the necessary new future can take shape.

The ICSE has been established by EVOKE/EPEA, Sustainable Enterprise Foundation, Cagerito and the foundation for a Sustainable City of Eindhoven with the cooperation of the council of Eindhoven.

The ICSE is situated on the second floor of the Philips Light tower (3700 m²) , which is an icon to the city of Eindhoven and for the industrialization of the whole community. The building belongs to the historical heritage and thus adequately links the industrial past with the industry of the future.

The center will be open from September 2009.

The Centre