The challenges of eco-innovation

EcoSD network is a French association whose main objective is to encourage collaboration between academic and industrial researchers so they may create and spread advanced and multidisciplinary knowledge in the eco-design fields at national and international levels. Several actions are proposed by the EcoSD network with the support from the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME), from the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research as well as the Ministry of Industry:

• Structuring EcoSD research activities in France to take advantage of the expertise from more than 200 members of this research network,
• Developing knowledge among researchers regarding the field of eco-design, particularly better training of PhD students by organizing relevant training courses over different themes in eco-design,
• Elaborating new methods, new tools and new databases to achieve complex systems design, compatible with the principle of sustainable developmen