Double award for Top Downloaded Papers
Our mission has always been to conduct research that matters and creates a real impact. Therefore, it makes us incredibly happy that two of our papers received the Top Downloaded Paper award from Wiley. It is truly rewarding to see our research being accessed and utilized by our peers within and beyond academia. These two highly downloaded papers from our laboratory, funded by the Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft CDG, perfectly encapsulate our core focus on the nexus of sustainability, circulareconomy, and digitalization.
In the first paper, Magdalena Rusch, PhD, Josef-Peter Schöggl, and Rupert J. Baumgartner delve into the application of digital technologies for sustainable product management: https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3099. In the second paper, Adriana Neligan and her team investigate how digitalization can drive circular economy business models: https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3100
Thank you to everyone who has supported our work and contributed to this success.
Most cited paper award
Josef-Peter Schöggl, Lukas Stumpf and Rupert J. Baumgartner have been awarded both the Most Cited Paper and the Most Downloaded Paper Award 2022 for review papers from Resources, Conservation & Recycling for their study, "The Narrative of Sustainability and Circular Economy - A Longitudinal Review of Two Decades of Research".The award is given to the top 10 papers in each category, and we are honored that our researchers are recognized for their achievement. In the study, they analyzed all #circulareconomy (CE) related papers (i.e. 3822) published between 2000 and 2019 with a specific focus on their #sustainability connotation. The paper is available with open access here: https: //doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.105073
Best Student Paper Award Winner ERSCP 2021
From 8. till 10. September 2021 the 20th European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production (ERSCP) Conference took place in Graz.
Katharina Berger was awarded with the best student paper award for her contribution about "Sustainable and circular battery management - Conceptualization of an information model". The conference paper of Katharina and her co-authors Magdalena Rusch, Josef Schöggl and Rupert J. Baumgarter is available in the proceedings of the ERSCP.
In 2019 the award was given to CD-Lab researcher Lukas Stumpf for the best research submitted and presented at the ERSCP by PhD students. He contributed to the conference with an analysis of 131 circular economy business cases from a scientific and policy perspective.
WKO Research Fellowship Award
Over 100 master's and diploma theses were submitted to the WKO Styria by students to win one of the coveted research grants for young scientists. One of the awards was given to Magdalena Rusch for her master thesis on "Social Life Cycle Assessment in a Circular Economy context" which was written in cooperation with the CD-Laboratory for Sustainable Product Management enabling a Circular Economy at the Institute for Systems Science, Innovation and Sustainability Research at the University of Graz.
The research scholarships were awarded under the title "Economy meets Science" by WKO Styria President Josef Herk for business-related diploma and master theses. In total, the WKO has already distributed 310,000 euros to young scientists within the framework of this program - the scholarships were awarded for the seventh time this year. For more information you can also visit our blogpost from February 2020.
DGAW scholarship for real time Delphi software for the CD-Lab
At the9th science congress of the German association for waste management (DGAW e.V.), CD Lab member Lukas was given a scholarship to support the acquisition of a real time Delphi software. The software will be used for a study on organizational requirements for circular practices in the packaging industry across the whole supply chain. A more detailed understanding of how organizations need to structure their resources for a circular transition is an expected outcome of the study, which will be carried out early 2020.
ERSCP 2019 best conference paper award
The European Roundtable for Sustainable Consumption and Production (ERSCP), founded in 1994, supports the development of a European (but also worldwide) community of research and practice in sustainable consumption and production. The main goal of the ERSCP is to encourage discussion amongst stakeholders such as businesses, public institutions, universities, institutes and research centers, NGOs, SMEs, professional associations, decision-makers, etc. involved in such areas.
In 2019, the ERSCP was hosted by the polytechnic University of Barcelona and was dedicated to the topic 'Circular Europe for Sustainability'. This year's award was given to CDLab researcher Lukas Stumpf for the best research submitted and presented at the ERSCP by PhD students. He contributed to the conference with an analysis of 131 circular economy business cases from a scientific and policy perspective.