It seems that we have a ten years rhythm for big changes.
We founded our consulting company in 1997 in Germany and its been ten years we established cocoate in France.
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The transition to a resource-saving and sustainable economy is one of the largest challenges of our century. The preservation and augmentation of capital is a self-evident tasks for companies, but sustainability in managing ecological and social resources is still relatively new. Economics was often conceived as a set of rules, based on abstract models, for the development of businesses and economies, which seemed to have no relation to social and ecological contexts. Even today, we still use mathematical models from the 19./20.
For a European Project on adult education, Isabell Schulz and me wrote a tutorial about critical thinking. It’s part of a series of workshops for this project and worth to share, we think.
Preparing the next European meeting of the Happy Home Wallet project I did discuss with some people of different ages and social backgrounds the above question.
The ways to handle money are different and it often causes stress for a lot of people but all agreed on these two main principles:
We are permanently changing something, adapt ourselves to external and internal conditions but from time to time, changes are more visible to our audience.
cocoate.com was started in February 2007 as the successor of a German consultancy, established in 1997. The main fields of our activities were quite the same, our project activities, cooperation and the geographical area changed with our move to France.
Le projet EU CITCOM il s’agit de la citoyenneté et le développement de la communauté. Au cours des dernières semaines, j’ai fait des recherches sur l’image de citoyenneté en France afin de mieux comprendre le cadre dans lequel les actions civiques ont lieu.
Notre communication est influencée par les processus inconscients qui sont décisifs pour le succès ou l’échec du schéma de nos relations. Même sans parler, nous transmettons beaucoup d’information pendant nos échanges avec les autres et donc, influençons leur comportement.
Our new European Project for adult education "Happy Home Wallet"
aims to rediscover sustainable ways of living and to make it practically, we will deliver some workshops about a range of topics covering that aim.
In preparation for our international workshop in Ostrava about “Private consumption patterns and its impact on the local economy” we were researching about consumption patterns and we did a survey in our area to find out how “the average person” behaves.
Nous avons rencontré nos partenaires européens à l’Université de Bangor les 27 et 28 novembre 2013 pour lancer leur nouveau projet – CITCOM – Citizenry & Community.
La réunion a fourni une excellente occasion aux partenaires à se présenter ainsi que leurs organisations. Nous avons exploré et comparé des idées de citoyenneté et les processus communautaires dans notre pays, puis avons programmé une série d’ateliers qui seront livrés au cours des deux prochaines années.
La crise économique qui a affecté l’Europe pendant des dernières cinq années a inévitablement amené des changements dans la vie des gens. Cette crise a concrètement eu un impact sur les portefeuilles de ménage changeant les choix quotidiens et la vie de millions d’Européens. Le coût de la vie a augmenté de façon significative et en même temps, beaucoup de gens ont perdu leur emploi, créant ainsi un nouveau déséquilibre entre des revenus et dépenses dans leurs budgets de ménage.