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The tools and support on this site are here to help you choose the most suitable guides, frameworks, and support materials for each situation. They’re designed to make it easier for you to tailor your stakeholder engagement, gather accurate data, and report your progress with confidence.
If you have a toolkit, guide, resource or training programme that you would like to see included, please get in touch at [email protected] or use our submission form.
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Elma.live
Elma-live is a digital platform for sustainable development in the live music and other performing arts industry. It is a digital data bank, planning tool and community platform, aimed at providing actors in the live music industry with information, tools and support in promoting sustainable development. Elma is based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which cover all aspects of sustainable development. The platform includes learning materials, a roadmap tool for building, monitoring and reporting on your own sustainability programme, and a Co2 Calculator for measuring and monitoring the carbon footprint of activities, tailored to meet the needs of live music and performing arts. (The Co2-calculator is currently available only in Finnish.)
The toolkit caters to music, festivals and performing arts.
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Innovation Cook Book
The Innovation Cook Book is a practical guide developed within the Label4Future project that shows how creative collaboration can drive circular and sustainable innovation in industry. Rather than presenting theory, it translates real experiences from six SME–artist collaborations into clear, step-by-step “recipes” that help companies, creatives, and policymakers work together more effectively.
Built on hands-on experimentation in sectors such as plastics and materials, the Cook Book explains how to frame challenges, match the right partners, prototype ideas, handle ownership and value creation, and turn creative exploration into tangible results. Alongside tools, checklists, and reflections, it also highlights what worked, what failed, and what was learned in real-world conditions.
The Innovation Cook Book is designed for SMEs looking to innovate sustainably, creative professionals working with industry, and policymakers aiming to embed creativity into regional innovation strategies. It is both a guide and an invitation: to adapt these methods, apply them in new contexts, and use creative collaboration as a repeatable pathway toward systemic, circular change.
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Circular Glass Edition
Created by Creative Glass Serbia Initiative - Institute for creative entrepreneurship and innovation - Serial of stories of artist and creative entrepreneurs highlights diverse circular approaches, from artistic interventions that give new life to discarded glass and recycled waste, to methods rooted in historical techniques and sustainable craftsmanship. Showcased contributors include studios and designers who transform remnants of glass or industrial heritage into innovative lighting, furniture, and sculptural pieces, demonstrating how creative imagination and environmental responsibility can coexist.
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Creative Glass Lab
Created by Creative Glass Serbia Initiative - Institute for creative entrepreneurship and innovation - Creative Glass LAB is an experimental open-innovation laboratory developed within the Creative Glass Serbia initiative. It connects the rich glassmaking heritage of Paraćin with contemporary artistic, design, and circular and technological practices. The LAB provides a collaborative space for artists, designers, craftsmen, and researchers to experiment with glass, reinterpret traditional techniques, and develop innovative, sustainable glass products. Through workshops, residencies, and pilot projects, Creative Glass LAB promotes knowledge exchange, creative experimentation, and the integration of circular economy principles into glass production.
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Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI)
Created by SEAI Energy Academy - Designed with Ireland's leading energy and e-learning experts, the Energy Academy gives you access to high-quality, on-demand energy training. Discover the skills you need to start your energy efficiency journey.
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Green Office Handbook
Created by Estonian Environmental Protection Agency - The handbook is intended primarily for organizations that are beginning to implement a green office and make their offices more environmentally friendly. However, offices that are already advanced in their environmental activities will certainly find something useful in it as well.
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EPD Polska – product carbon calculator
Created by EDP Polska - A calculator that allows you to determine (after entering the material composition of the product) an estimated result and identify the main sources of emissions. Interesting for projects in the field of eco-design, printing, gadgets, art installations, etc.
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BNP Paribas – carbon footprint calculator
Created by BNP Paribas - A carbon footprint calculator developed by BNP Paribas, intended mainly for businesses, but can be used more widely. Intended for micro-enterprises
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Climate & Strategy – Carbon Footprint Calculator for SMEs in Scopes 1, 2 and 3
Created by Climate & Strategy - A free carbon footprint calculator for organisations in scopes 1, 2 and 3 (GHG Protocol), based on updated indicators mainly for companies/SMEs, but the methodology applies to organisations, so it can be adapted to cultural institutions/NGOs. Useful for calculating comprehensive emissions, e.g. total organisational emissions (building, energy, purchases, travel, etc.), rather than just the footprint of a single event.
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Carbon Footprint Foundation – Carbon Footprint Calculator
Created by Carbon Footprint Foundation - Carbon footprint calculator for individuals, organisations, companies, etc., which calculates the carbon footprint based on daily activities, with a separate option for ‘Your work’ (employee – manager roles). It provides approximate calculations for small NGOs, individual artists, micro-offices, useful in educating project participants (workshops, activities with the public, etc.).
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MyClimate – event calculator
Created by MyClimate - CO₂ emissions calculator for events, with the option of supporting climate projects, useful for comparing results and showing different variants.
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Atmosfair – CO2 event calculator
Created by Atmosfair - A calculator useful for organising all kinds of events – concerts, conferences, festivals – it calculates event emissions (energy, travel, catering, etc.) and suggests compensation options (climate projects)