“The European Ecolabel – Strategy Café”

Sit down a minute and feel. The relaxed working atmosphere of a Viennese Café. 5–6 tables, each with a host (moderator) and dedicated to a specific strategic question (written on the menu card).

The participants (22 Competent Bodies from 13 EU countries) split up, sit down and give ideas and experience which the table host will capture and visualise for the plenum.

Every 20 minutes the guests are invited by a given signal to get up and join another table and topic:

1. “The Vision”: How would I like to see my CB in 2015?
2. “Budget Strategy”: What would be a “sufficient budget” and how to get it?
3. “The Path of Synergy”: CB cooperation, of national & EU Ecolabel, of CB & stakeholders?
4. “Criteria Development Strategy”: More criteria? More synergy?
5. “Free Space” and “My best/worst experience” concerning EL
6. "Challanges for Ecolabelling and how to meet it?"

In the end each participant had visited 3 of the 6 tables.

Then the table  moderators presented the visualised summaries to the plenum.

Start the picture-shows by a click on the images of the procedure and the results:

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