Our Projects
Technical Assistance project (DG REFORM)- Do No Significant Harm (DNSH) Guidelines and application in Czechia
Trinomics has partnered with ISFC in this technical assistance project for the Czech Ministries, with a focus on the guidance and application of Do No Significant Harm (DNSH) Guidelines for EU funds.
The project started in September 2022 and will continue for 20 months until its successful completion. As part of the project work, ISFC and Trinomics are reviewing EU and Czech level DNSH and related legislation, guidance, and application to eventually create a guidance document in spring 2023.
The technical work includes stakeholder consultations, research and review, as well as special workshops and ad hoc support for select Ministries and Operational Programmes.
The project team also liaises with a similar project which carried out in Finland, to ensure useful lessons are learnt and applied.
Project lead: Julian Toth
EU LIFE Project - Certification of clean energy SMEs
Together with an international consortium (RWTH Aachen University, Climate & Company, Circular SRL, and CVUT), ISFC is working on an EU LIFE project that will create and pilot a certification scheme for clean energy SMEs in several countries.
The project will initially focus on Germany, Italy, and Czechia. The project team will create a methodology for the certification scheme, and engage with a range of financial sector stakeholders (including banks) to ensure that the final scheme has good usability and is fit for stakeholder needs.
The project will run for three years and will create materials available to the wider public.
Project lead: Réka Sulyok
ESG 2.0 - ESG indicators and standardisation
As part of our core work, we at ISFC work on the analysis of different non-financial reporting standardisation efforts and frameworks.
We have published an overview of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and its application, and our work will include a series of publications that evaluate and compare the frameworks.
As part of this project, we will also take part in the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) annual conference, where we will host a two-day workshop “Sustainable finance and IA systems: Synergies and Interlinkages” which will explore ESG 2.0 along with ESG indicator linkages to impact measurement and Impact Assessment (IA) assessments as part of double materiality application.
Project lead: Linda Zeilina
Decarbonisation of the Industrial Sector: Sustainable Finance as an Opportunity?
The EUKI-funded project is created by a consortium of Central European not-for-profit organisations (WiseEuropa, Equilibrium Institute and a for profit organisation Pedal Consulting), led by EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy.
The project focuses on identifying barriers to heavy industry decarbonisation (steel, cement, and chemicals industries), while also offering opportunities for stakeholder exchanges and dialogues. In addition, the project aims to analyse the feasibility of hard-to-abate industry decarbonisation, to offer practical solutions for the financing of decarbonisation and to create policy recommendations that can support or accelerate decarbonisation efforts.
The project includes an international angle by creating knowledge exchange opportunities between different European and global think tanks, NGOs, and universities, as well as private sector institutions.
Project website: www.v4decarb.org
Project lead: Karel Voldrich
