enviSMART - Turning environmental challenges into business opportunities

One of the European Commission's important aims is to transform ecological challenges into economic opportunities, above all for small and medium-sized enterprises. Against this background, seven European projects co-funded by the EU were recently launched which give SMEs better access to advice and assistance in the area of environmental protection.

One of these projects is enviSMART, led by ZENIT GmbH. enviSMART focuses on the areas of chemicals, production and processing of metals, and surface treatment - sectors which throughout Europe still display a major need for support from external service providers with regard to environmental protection. The aim of this pilot project is to help SMEs in Greece, Slovakia and Malta to reduce their environmental impact and strengthen their market position as a result, by using tried and tested methods and experience from Germany, Denmark and Italy.

The Launch Meeting of the enviSMART project, in which all consortium partners participated, took place in early May in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.

ZENIT is also a partner in a second, Italian-led project - SWITCH4FOOD - which targets better use and improved purification of waste water in the food sector.

Contact:
Maximilian Jacobs (enviSMART)
Telephone: ++49-(0)208/30004-55
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Nora Anton (SWITCH4FOOD)
Telephone: ++49-(0)208/30004-51
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