Eliza Panagiotidou, Urban Camel
Eliza Panagiotidou is an Industrial Ecologist with a background in business administration and member of GREEN ASSIST expert community, an advisory initiative managed by the European Climate Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency. Her areas of expertise include the development of strategic pathways to sustainable growth and competitiveness. She can assist you in identifying new opportunities to enhance your company's circular performance, promote sustainable business development, and integrate circular thinking into your team.
Her partners include sustainability professionals with expertise in engineering, technological innovation, renewable energies, decarbonization, and research projects and initiatives for the development of innovation portfolios for sustainable transformation.
In 2020, Eliza founded Urban Camel, a boutique strategic research and innovation agency with expertise in sustainable growth and the transition to the Circular Economy. Urban Camel's vision is the co-creation and growth of sustainable business ecosystems within which eco-conscious and purpose-driven businesses are committed to reconsidering how they create and sustain value while serving society.
As a member of EIT Climate-KIC, Europe’s leading climate innovation agency and community, and, Urban Camel is on a mission to inspire, enhance and speed up the adoption of sustainable solutions and circular performance of organisations.
To achieve this, we innovate your business model by co-designing your sustainability strategy. We enable circular thinking and competencies for sustainable business transformation, and we support sustainable business development by creating synergies among business, technology and research partners.
In this context, Urban Camel is interested in participating in national and international research projects (Research & Innovation Actions) with tasks and work packages that cover circularity, sustainable business model innovation, and social sciences and humanities (SSH). This enables the exploration and improvement of new technologies and methods. Furthermore, Urban Camel is interested in participating in accelerator programs for its clients. These programs aim to produce valuable insights and replicable findings regarding social, environmental, and economic activities. Additionally, they contribute to the dissemination of knowledge about circularity performance.
Unique Selling Proposition: water-energy-food nexus and blue growth sectors e.g. offshore renewable energies, port and shipping, aquaculture.
Services include:
- Sustainability strategy: Exploring strategic options to enable the integration of sustainability factors into your business model. We develop key performance indicators (KPIs) based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals to monitor performance and track progress. We analyze your environmental, social and governance (ESG) context to identify risks and opportunities and develop an ESG action plan.
- Circular business innovation:Assessing the circularity performance of industrial products, identifying intervention points, co-designing circular strategic directions to improve value circulation.
- Sustainable business development: Supporting the development, uptake and marketability of sustainable products, services, processes and solutions by creating synergies between business, technology and research partners. Providing close to market research and innovation for technologies near commercial stage and assisting start-ups in preparing proposals and participating in business innovation competitions for funding and awards.
- Knowledge transfer and skills development: Capacity building and co-organization of hackathons that link academia with industry, enabling students to develop sustainability-related skills.
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