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The International Center for Sustainable Excellence (ICSE) in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, is a Center that shows visitors, participants and users how knowledge and skills in the field of sustainability will  together shape our future and makes them experience this. Sustainability in a wide perspective but with the help of concrete examples (showcases) from trade and industry, universities and researchers, and social organizations. The center gives an insight into a new world where respect, trust and openness form the new central idea.

The aim of the Center is to make sustainability real and tangible, to show how developments come about and what it takes. In this way, visitors are handed ideas to make sustainability self-evident and a part of their every day life.

The purpose of the Center is also to let all participants cooperate in order to come to new developments or insights. This can be on a product or production level, but also at the level of corporate management, design, life style, work and housing.

The participants of the ICSE  consist of local, national and international centers of knowledge, organizations and companies that lead the way with respect to sustainable developments.
All together they bring along a world wide network which is necessary to find solutions for the future.

Thus in the ICSE, projects in the cradle to cradle field, biomimicry and other applications of sustainability and sustainable entrepreneurship come together.

In this way, the ICSE will become a source of knowledge from where solutions may well up that are practically admissible to trade and industry, to public authorities and to the individual citizen. Because only through cooperation, the necessary new future can take shape.

In the ICSE there is room for more than 100 companies to show the public customers and associated companies their newest developments in the area of sustainability. Showing how one thing works, implies also an open communication. This requires trust in and respect for another.

In the ICSE, there is also room for more than 80 work spaces which are hired by local, national and international institutions, knowledge centers and organizations in the field of sustainability.

Further you will find in the ICSE, a conference area plus a source of knowledge, a room  from where, among other things, you can consult various databanks in the field of sustainability but where also the knowledge "obtained in the ICSE" will be safeguarded.