The conference is being organized in collaboration with the Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Nature Conservation and Consumer Protection of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Ministerium für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Landwirtschaft, Natur- und Verbraucherschutz des Landes NRW).

The following organizations are partners of the EU project SPREAD Sustainable Lifestyles 2050, of which the Sustainable Lifestyles and Entrepreneurship Conference is a part:

UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production gGmbH
http://www.scp-centre.org/

Ashoka France
http://www.ashoka.asso.fr/

Demos Helsinki   
http://www.demos.fi/english

Ecoinstitut Barcelona
http://www.ecoinstitut.es/english/index.html

Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands
http://www.ecn.nl/en/

EuroHealthNet
http://www.eurohealthnet.eu/

The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University
http://www.iiiee.lu.se/

The Northern Alliance for Sustainability
http://www.anped.org/

Politecnico di Milano
http://www.english.polimi.it/

Regional Environmental Center for CEE Countries
http://www.rec.hu/e_index.html  

Kindly supported by

The project SPREAD Sustainable Lifestyle 2050 project is kindly supported by the European Commission's Seventh Research Framework Programme (FP7).
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm

Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt   
http://www.dbu.de/

Supporters

Alanus Hochschule für Kunst und Gesellschaft
http://www.alanus.edu/

Autostadt
http://www.autostadt.de/

Borderstep Institute for Innovation and Sustainability
http://www.borderstep.de/

Colabora – Let's Work Together
http://www.colabora-together.de/

Deutsche Telekom
http://www.telekom.de/

ecosign / Academy for Design       
http://www.ecosign.net/

European Environment Agency       
http://www.eea.europa.eu/

European Topic Centre on SCP       
http://scp.eionet.europa.eu/

Ferrero SpA        
http://www.ferrero.com/

forum Nachhaltig Wirtschaften
http://www.forum-csr.net

Gesamtverband der Aluminiumindustrie e.V.
http://www.aluinfo.de/

Henkel
http://www.henkel.com/

IKEA
http://www.ikea.com/

Instituto Akatu pelo Consumo Consciente
http://www.akatu.org.br

Kraft Foods Europe
http://www.kraftfoodscompany.com/welcome.aspx

Nokia
http://www.nokia.com/home 

One Earth Initiative Society
http://oneearthweb.org/

Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship – The Voice of Social Innovation
http://www.schwabfound.org/

Swedish Ministry of Environment       
http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/2066

Turkish Business Council for Sustainable Development
http://www.tbcsd.org/

Unilever   
http://www.unilever.com/

World Economic Forum
http://www.weforum.org/

Association of Development Financing Institutions in Asia and the Pacific (ADFIAP)
http://www.adfiap.org

BSR Europe
http://www.bsr.org

Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe
http://www.hs-owl.de/fb1/studium/lehrgebiete/produktdesign-und-ergonomie.html

Forum for the Future
http://www.forumforthefuture.org

Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy
http://www.wupperinst.org/en/home/

Verbraucher Initiative
http://www.verbraucher.org

collective invention - Innovation for the Common Good™
http://www.collectiveinvention.com

Centre for Systems Solitions
http://www.crs.org.pl/en

enviu - Innovators in sustainability
http://www.enviu.org

Rabobank
http://www.rabobank.de

Sustainable Danceclub
http://www.sustainabledanceclub.com

UmweltDialog
http://www.umweltdialog.de

Collaborative Consumption
http://www.collaborativeconsumption.com

United Nations Environment Programme
http://www.unep.org

futerra sustainability communications
http://www.futerra.co.uk/

Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland e.V. (BUND) - Friends of the Earth Germany
http://www.bund.net

ecoScan - mobile transparency
http://www.ecoscan.info/en.html

Verbraucherzentrale NRW
http://www.vz-nrw.de/

yesilcember
http://www.yesilcember.de/