SusProNet newsletter

SusProNet was a thematic network of industries and institutes under the EU Fifth Framework Programme (FP5). SusProNet developed and exchanged expertise on design of product-service systems for sustainable competitive growth. Key networking tools were SusProNet's experts database, and collection of product service systems (PSS) resources. The final SusProNet newsletter is available from www.suspronet.org as a pdf file. It has the form of a short booklet with information on SusProNet and its need area groups, but also on the most important other EU PSS projects. Also, the Sixth Framework programme supports SCORE. Many of SusProNet's results including SusProNet's network will feed into SCORE (Sustainable Consumption Research Exchanges), which is expected to start in 2005 and which is essentially a network project emphasising user awareness for sustainable consumption. Soon after the project's start, SCORE will open a web site where people can register for involvement in the network at www.score-network.org (probably operational from mid-2005).