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The Congress
Since 2014, the International Cradle to Cradle Congress #C2CC23 has been the first and to date the world’s largest platform for C2C solutions with approximately 1,000 visitors, 100 speakers and a 2-day program.
THE HOST
C2C NGO
Problems can only be solved by those who understand them – we promote this through our educational work. C2C NGO networks business, science, education, politics and civil society. Our volunteers, who are organized nationwide, carry the idea of Cradle to Cradle into the world.
Our Congress is the world’s largest C2C platform: over 1,000 participants from the C2C community meet key figures from science, business and politics here every year. Forums, presentations and workshops offer space for exchange and networking.
In 2019, we built the C2C LAB in Berlin: the world’s first comprehensive refurbishment of an existing commercial unit according to C2C criteria. As an education center, NGO head office and real laboratory, the school of thought and design concept can be experienced in practice. Anyone who wants to commit to a positive ecological footprint can become active with us.
2026
10th International Cradle to Cradle Congress
2025
9th International Cradle to Cradle Congress
Change instead of just business as usual, joie de vivre instead of a doomsday scenario, shaping the future together instead of pointing a finger: the 9th Cradle to Cradle Congress showed how the future can succeed. Under the patronage of the Federal Minister for the Environment, Steffi Lemke, the March 13 On March 14, around 80 speakers and around 1,000 participants from business, politics, science and civil society came together at TU Berlin.
Dr. Eckart von Hirschhausen
Franziska Giffey
1.000
Kerstin Erbe
2024
Large-scale project Labor Tempelhof 2.0
Four years, six concerts, 330,000 people – and a lot learned!
The Project Labor Tempelhof shows the extent to which climate- and resource-positive events can already be implemented today and where the limits of what is (currently) feasible lie.
2023
8th International Cradle to Cradle Congress
Back in Berlin: The 8th International C2C Congress at TU Berlin was filled with exciting discussions about the state of the circular economy, inspiring best practices from C2C companies and those on their way there, scientific discourses and plenty of opportunities for exchange and networking.
Claudia Roth
Klara Geywitz
800
Jörg Witthöft
Michael Kellner
2022
Large-scale project "Labor Tempelhof"
Four major concerts. A quarter of a million spectators. A C2C lighthouse that can serve as a role model – for the event industry and far beyond.
2021
7th International Cradle to Cradle Congress
For the first time three stages in three German cities (Freiburg, Mainz, Mönchengladbach) as a hybrid event.
1 Congress
3 stages
Svenja Schulze
91
Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter, MdB
700
Thomas Fuhr
2020
Founding of the Network C2C Regions
Shaping the municipalities of the future according to C2C for prosperous,
liveable and resilient regions.
2020
6th International Cradle to Cradle Congress
For the first time in Berlin with 1,000 participants.
Special Track: Food
Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker, MdB
Reinhard Schneider
Dr. Anton Hofreiter, MdB
1000
2019
Opening of the C2C LAB
The world’s first comprehensive C2C renovation.
The C2C school of thought and design concept
can be experienced in terms of content and practice on 400 m2 as an education center, NGO head office and real laboratory
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