This document summarizes a meeting taking place on December 12, 2011 in Bregenz, Austria to prepare for the European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production (ERSCP) in May 2012. The objectives of the meeting are to prepare the ERSCP based on the needs and offers of corporate partners and to share information about vocational education and training programs from eight companies. The full-day agenda includes sessions for planning workshop contents, discussions with sustainability managers from various companies, visits to companies to learn about their vocational training programs, and a discussion about improving existing applications.

1. TRUST IN Meeting
Monday, 12 December 2011
Bregenz, Austria
Dear Partners
This meeting is intended to prepare the European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production
(ERSCP) in Bregenz, Austria in May 2-4, 2012. Therefore, we have invited experts of the corporate partners
of the ERSCP for a dialogue session.
The objectives of the workshop are
 The preparation of the ERSCP along the needs and offers of the corporate partners
 Information about the VET programmes of these 8 companies to include this practical approaches
into the TRUST IN scheme
Time: 09:00 to 18:00
Venue: Hotel Schwärzler, Bregenz + the corporate headquarters
Welcome
09:00 Andrea Schwärzler, Willi Sieber
ERSCP dialogue
09:15 – 12:30 Moderator: Willi Sieber
Planning of workshops contents at the ERSCP and discussion about needs, research questions and
solutions in companies.
Dialogue partners:
o Iris Köstinger, global sustainability manager, ALPLA (packaging company with 135 sites
worldwide)
o Verena Hutter, staff manager (responsible also for the Schwärzler Academy), Schwärzler
Hotels (6 Hotels in Austria and Liechtenstein)
o Jodok Metzler, managing engineer, Pfanner (one of Europe’s leading juice producer)
o Bernhard Nemcic, product manager, Haberkorn Ulmer (Austria’s biggest technical wholesaler
with several branches in East and South-East Europe)
o Robert Hoschek, sustainability and innovation, Omicron (innovative power system testing
solutions)
o Michael Zangerl, managing director, Rhombergbau/CREE (the Life Cycle Tower company)
o Thomas Schierle, head engineering and construction, Sutterlüty (regional retailer with about
20 supermarkets)
o Peter Waldenberger, sustainability and quality manager, Gebr. Weiss (global transports and
logistics)
Lunch break
12:30 – 14:00

2. Corporate VET
14:00 – 18:00 All partners
Visits and discussions in the involved companies about their VET Programmes
Project development discussion
18:00 – 19:00 Willi Sieber
Information and discussion about the improvements of running applications
Dinner
19:00
If some TRUST IN colleagues tend to stay till Tuesday noon:
Optional: Corporate VET
Tue, 13 December 2011 All partners
09:00 – 13:00
Visits and discussions in the involved companies about their VET Programmes
If some TRUST IN colleagues like to improve their snow skills:
Optional: Skiing exercise
Sat/Sun 10 and 11 December Skiing instructor: Willi Sieber
Depends on having snow enough