Sustainable Future Eco Landmarks SFEL global investment intiative on culture, innovation & sustainability

​What is SFEL  global investment intiative on culture, innovation & sustainability?

Sustainable Future Eco Landmarks - SFEL:  A global investment initiative

• An insightful, exponential & disruptive combination of culture, sustainability & innovation; 
• A whole area in the vicinity of an UNESCO World Heritage Cultural / Natural Monument virtually built on sustainable specifications in 2-year period;
• Highly related to World Heritage & Sustainable Development (SD) using both culture & SD construction as leverages to each other;
• Sustainable Development construction uses culture as leverage, as vital space & time, for profitable SD startups & higher public aware­ness; 
• In co-operation with global leading industries, e.g. Clean energy; VR/AR/MR; IoT; Nanotechnology; 3D printing; circular economy ecosystem; funding ecosystem; 
• Global opportunity for profitable investments on viable startups under a global franchise umbrella with a social cause supervised by a Global Public Policy Network; 
• Business initiative with social cause as leverage to support UNESCO World Heritage Cultural & Natural Monuments involving leading industries; 
• Sustainable Development large scale prototype constructions on virtual form for all stakeholders succeeding tangible results & exponential climate awareness.

 SFEL Elevator pitch

• GLOBAL PROBLEMS: Crises on climate; finance; energy; moral.
• INVESTMENT TOOL IN STYLE: Innovation & entrepreneurship; ‘conventional’ startups (not solving real problems) success rate still very poor though.
• SINE QUA NON PREREQUISITE: Higher awareness degree for investors & public. 
• SFEL GLOBAL SOLUTION: Sustainable Development (SD) global construction.
• THE DIFFERENTIATOR: SD construction in combination with UNESCO World Cultural & Natural Heritage Monuments using culture as leverage, as vital space & time, as teaser, as bait for profitable SD startups and higher public awareness.
• THE DISRUPTIVE product - TOOL: SUSTAINABLE FUTURE ECO LANDMARKS (SFEL): a global pool for investors: franchise of startups with a social cause using 2600 culture locations globally: 1. to implement SD in virtual form (+ leading industries tangible applications) AND 2. to raise awareness of ALL AUDIENCES, all stakeholders: local population; state & municipal authorities; local market; civil society - & tourists.

Market tips

Fact #1.  2017 International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development;
Fact #2.  “Action against Climate crisis, especially Sustainable Development construction, is no longer a scientist’s job; it’s now a salesman’s job”;
Fact #3.  From 3/1-10/1, 2017 google search on Sustainable Development increased globally by 64%;
Fact #4. Sustainable Business Can Unlock at Least US$12 Trillion in New Market Value, and Repair Economic System. Next decade critical for companies      to open 60 key market “hot spots,” tackle social, environmental challenges, and re-build trust with society;
Fact #5.  Entrepreneurship and start-ups sector highly likely to grow in 2017; Innovation isn’t enough. Ways to share technology's benefits better  (World Economic Forum 2017).


SFEL Social Innovation

• All social stakeholders cube Core idea enhancement
• The Future 50 structural elements Strategic partnerships enhancement
• Multiplex Social Grid Revealed Workshop Development team enhancement
• The sustainability puzzle

Potential funding sources: EIB; NDB; German ethical bank GLS; the German Social & Ethical Investing; the Swiss WIR Bank; DM Drogerie (Gotz Werner) potential CSR partner; UBS; the Swiss Foundation for the Protection and Care of the Landscape; EU funding programs. Potential partners / investors: Piraeus Balk Cultural Foundation; International Association of Investors in the Social Economy (INAISE); Institute for Social Banking; Oikocredit; World Future Council; La Societe financiere de la NEF; Global Alliance for Banking on Values


Additional information

• Interview UNFCCC COP21 Paris 4min
• SFEL at-a-glance 8 & timeline 3 p.
• Original presentation Dresden 2013, 36 ppt slides
• SFEL organizational structure 1p.
• ‘Fu­ture 52’ big­ger picture 1p.
• Dreams' solid disruptive toolkit; SFEL is the tool 1p.
• Multiplex Social Grid Revealed work­shop; 4p.
• The google per­spective; 1p.
• The Civi­li­za­tion of Na­ture 2p.
• Social inno­va­tion stakeholders’ cube;
• Busi­ness plan (under final touch);
• Letter of intent (under deve­lop­ment)
• Memorandum of Understanding, collaboration & confidentiality state­ment (under deve­lop­ment)

Secretariat contact person:

Andreas  Andreopoulos, UNESCO Task Force •  METIS Global Awareness Net­work,  Accred­it­ed Observer to the  UNFCCC,

Email: mhtiswan@gmail.com  
Skype: ecologicalcivilization  
Mobile: +306978903280, 6932608518  
Fixed line:  +302114078503   

Andreopoulos SFEL Letter of Intent

Mijuskovic SFEL Letter of Intent

Bonser SFEL Letter of Intent

Charvat SFEL Letter of Intent

Contargyris SFEL Letter of Intent

SFEL Letter of Intent - draft for our partners

1-3, Zaharitsa st, 11742, Athens Greece ​

​Affiliations so far … and counting
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1. Global University Alliance +450 members 

​2. Global Thinking World - Professor Marina P. Bonser - Educational Resource for Global Consciousness and Sustainability
A member of UNESCO Open Educational Resources & US Partnership of Education for Sustainable Development

3.METIS Global Awareness Network - conceptual framework toolkits 

4. PowiDian autonomous power plant from alternative sources, Airbus Group spin-off WINNER AT COP21

5. Women Economic Forum ALL’s business network (ALL Ladies League). ALL is the world’s largest league of diverse & positive women uniting & uplifting the world; the largest networking chain for women with over 30,000 members (and constantly growing) with over 500+ chapters in 110 countries across the world. Featuring Serbian Chapter.