Our research strives towards a completely new IT solution that will improve sustainability communication between companies and the financial community. To avoid time-consuming reading for several stakeholders and decision-makers, the prototype demonstrates the results of our research. In several meetings, Read more…
In December the eco4fin team met in Oldenburg for the last quarterly meeting in 2019 to discuss the results achieved so far and to plan the start in 2020. The discussions focused on the creation of the next prototype version Read more…
A project meeting took place in Wolfsburg at the end of October. At the factory gate, the VLBA team was welcomed by the new VW logo. Changes were discussed at the project meeting. Cedrik Theesen introduced himself as a new Read more…
It would be a dream for investors, politicians, and customers if sustainability-related company data was machine-readable and freely available Open Data. Such approaches exist for individual contents and regions, but they are not widespread worldwide and only concern a selective part of the Read more…
In mid-August, the project team presented the results of the last project quarter. The meeting took place in Wolfsburg. Focus was on the first version of the prototype. All project participants were satisfied with the results so far and there Read more…
In the beginning of July, the eco4fin project team presented a platform concept to our research partner Volkswagen in Wolfsburg and participated in a training on FOSS (Free Open Source Software) deployment. Our demonstration met the expectations and was the Read more…
We are thinking theoretically about the practice: What should the first prototype be able to do and what should we postpone until later? We discussed this question at the project meeting in March 2019. The meeting took place at the Read more…
Is there a bottleneck in sustainability communication between companies and investors? Yes, summarizes the external doctoral student of the VLBA Raphaela Helbig. She is part of the eco4fin project. At the 14th International Conference on Information Systems (WI2019) she presented Read more…
On St. Nicholas Day, the participants of the eco4fin research cooperation took stock of the interim results. The project meeting took place in Wolfsburg, next to the Christmas-decorated Autostadt (photo).
Environment, capital market and Volkswagen – How does it fit together? Since June 2018, a research cooperation between the Business Information Systems / VLBA department and Volkswagen AG has been working on new ways of environmental communication. The aim is Read more…