meves@civicon.eu

Dr. Hans Meves senior consultant and founder of the Network Bureau Europe received his academic and professional training in geography regional development and social environmental studies at universities in Kiel Frankfurt Sapporo Yokohama Tokyo and College Park/Maryland. He has extensive experience in European and international collaborative projects with a thematic focus on the implementation of sustainability respectively regional development issues. Since he returned to Germany in 1997 he has worked on EU-issues in the public and private sector. After another year of postgraduate studies of business administration he served as EU-programme and project consultant for the “Investitionsbank Schleswig-Holstein” EU-technology transfer and SME consultant for an innovation centre and incubator as European business and project consultant for a private consultancy firm and EU and international policy and project consultant for the regional government of Schleswig-Holstein. In 2003 he founded the Network Bureau Europe – international consultancy for knowledge innovation and sustainability. The organisation focuses on evaluation processes and projects of EU and international regional co-operation initiatives. Recently sustainability evaluation has become a key methodical approach in N.B.E.’s strategic process and project development for regional and organisational competitiveness. In 2010 Hans Meves founded CIVICON GbR – Institute for Sustainability Management. The institute has its head office at the Kiel Science Center northern Germany and event locations in Hamburg Bremen and Puerto de Soller Mallorca Spain. The institute focuses on the integration of evaluation principles and methods sustainability management concepts and instruments and (user-driven) innovation capacity building and production/product development. At CIVICON Hans Meves and his partners apply this integrative approach by their consultancy at the business public infrastructure and regional policy level as supporting measure for the transition to a sustainable practice in organizational and societal development