Sustainable Transition to the Agile and Green Enterprise

Sustainable Transition to the Agile and Green Enterprise (STAGE) STAGE is a unique support mechanism, co-funded by the European Commission, helping enterprises with sustainability reporting and investment readiness. Our Approach Sustainability Ecosystem Our digital ecosystem is designed to address the sustainability needs of European industrial enterprises, providing incentives and support to make your business agile and green. The platform provides industrial enterprises and sustainability advisors with access to cutting edge innovation and sustainability training, support, and assessment tools assembled by consortium partners. In addition, enterprises will be able to connect with Sustainability centres and access to financial expertise to help in the implementation of their sustainability transition plans, action steps, and recommendations. Our sustainability ecosystem fosters the opportunity for successful collaboration among industrial partners and enterprises, providing sustainability implementation learnings from other sectors. Innovation and Sustainability Assessments Combining market-leading tools of our consortium partners, we provide enterprises with cutting-edge Innovation, sustainability, and technology assessments. These assessments make it possible to capture the needs of enterprises and efficiently develop bespoke transition plans, with defined action steps and recommendations to promote their Sustainable Transition into Agile and Green Enterprises. Training and Support We provide European industrial enterprises and sustainability advisors with online and onsite access to advanced technologies innovation and decentralised open-source sustainability training courses and support. Our goal is to help companies to address practical sustainability issues, such as to determine their ‘product footprint’ data, or as to how to incorporate sustainability data in tender documents, as well as the steps required to meet EU sustainability legislation, such as the new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). Based on preliminary sustainability assessments, we identify suitable training programs which will help to address the sustainability needs of individual enterprises. Interested companies can then apply to obtain additional in-depth advisory and support services, which will include the identification of sustainability gaps in their business, as well as potential approaches to address these gaps. Sustainability Centres By enhancing the current collaboration of key EU sustainability and innovation actors, we are promoting a large number of Sustainability centres to incentivise sustainable transition for thousands of European Industrial enterprises. Our Sustainability centres enable enterprises with the opportunity to access advanced training through virtual and cash vouchers using STAGE assessments and decentralised open courses. Access to Finance Based on the in-company identification of sustainability needs, if required, we can facilitate easy access to funding for the most promising industrial enterprises to support their sustainable transition to agile and green enterprise. In line with EU Taxonomy and Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFRD), these enterprises will receive financial analysis, planning, support, and advisory services in arranging the most relevant financing for the sustainable transition implementation plans based on their individual needs. The objective is that through the supports provided to individual companies that European industry meets its ambitious sustainability goals.