Ecodesign Knowledge Transfer: How to take the Economical and Cultural Context of the Receiver into Consideration

Since the beginning of the 90's Ecodesign Education and Knowledge has been built up based upon Ecodesign methodology developments and experiences in education and in practice in demonstration projects. During the end of the 90's first attempts took place to transfer the created Ecodesign education and knowledge from Europe to other parts of the world like Central & Latin America, India and Africa. Because of the differences in economical, social and cultural contexts the European Ecodesign approaches had to be adapted to the local situations in order to become effective and successful. Based upon these experiences we came to the conclusion that in order to transfer Ecodesign knowledge in an effective way to the local receivers (students, consultants, professionals), the specific background and characteristics of the receiver and the local context should be taken (more) into consideration.