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How does a team event become a green event?

Would you like to organise a team event with a focus on sustainability? Are issues such as environmental sustainability, economic sustainability and social sustainability important to you and your company, or even enshrined in your mission statement? Then a green event from BITOU is just the thing for you!

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How do you organise a green event, i.e. a sustainable team event?

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It starts with the format: will the team event be held online, in a hybrid format or in a traditional on-site format? Depending on the format, there are different things to consider to ensure that the team event is a green event. Choosing the right partners for the team event is the decisive factor here. There is also the option of donating to a climate protection project and doing some good in the process.

There is significantly more to consider for a physical team event to be a green event than for an online or hybrid team event. Here are the most important points.

  • Catering: Regional and seasonal catering is essential for a green event. It is important to consider where the food is grown and how it is processed. Calculating the amount of food required for the participants is also an important factor. Ultimately, no food should be thrown away. If the actual number of participants is difficult to determine, concepts such as Rebowl
    can also be a sustainable event solution.
  • Waste management concept: How is waste collected? How can waste be separated sustainably? These are important questions when it comes to a sustainable waste management concept. There are providers with a ‘green seal’ who are committed to taking waste separation particularly seriously and subsequently attaching great importance to proper recycling.
  • Transport: travelling to the event is often the most ‘serious’ part of a green event. Are all participants flown in, or is there a solution for travelling by train? This can also be a decisive factor in choosing the location for the green event. A location with good transport links is important. To make an international team event as sustainable as possible, a hybrid event can also be a solution.
  • Providers: The choice of location and team event provider is also an important factor in a green event. How much attention do providers pay to sustainable concepts and how socially responsible is their treatment of employees? Here at BITOU, we have a number of locations up our sleeve that place great importance on precisely these points. We would be happy to advise you!
  • Key topics: Which sustainability topics should be presented at the green event? Is it primarily about ecological sustainability or also about social and economic sustainability? How should the topics be communicated to participants? In general, it makes sense to make all points transparent in a green event so that all participants are on board. Clear communication about why a green event is being held is also essential for employee acceptance.

Top 3 green events on site

Wind park – Sustainable team event with a view
4 – 500
90 – 150 minutes
Face to Face

Wind park – Sustainable team event with a view

Building a vision for the future together: At the wind park, teams develop a sustainable energy system and experience how cooperation, creativity and ecological values interact. Perfect as a green event for companies that want to combine innovation and sustainability.

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Green events as sustainable online team events

An online team event consumes the least amount of resources, requiring only electricity for the computers. If this electricity is generated from renewable sources, the green event is already perfect from an ecological point of view. Now the question of social sustainability remains. Our sustainable online team events are hosted on European servers and we ensure that the formats have been co-developed by fair companies.

Social compatibility is also very important to us when it comes to our internal employees. We ensure fair pay and a good work-life balance with compensatory time off.

Our online team events also offer the opportunity to incorporate your sustainability topics through customisation, making it a true online green event! Whether it’s food waste, second-hand goods or simply the economic design of business processes – all these topics can be interactively incorporated into the online experience – a green event of a special kind!

Top 3 online green events

After Work Party Online – The digital green event with no carbon footprint
6 – 1.000
30 – 80 minutes
Virtual

After Work Party Online – The digital green event with no carbon footprint

Relaxed celebrations – without any travel, material costs or resource consumption: the online after-work party is the most sustainable team event for companies that want to consciously strengthen their community. Your team meets virtually in a relaxed, interactive atmosphere, exchanges ideas, laughs together and experiences digital mini-challenges that bring people together – climate-friendly, flexible and perfect for remote teams.

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A green event as a hybrid team event? No problem!

However, it is often crucial in team-building processes that employees come together and that energy and emotion are palpable in the room. This means that most resources are consumed by travel to and from the venue – and this, in turn, can be reduced by a hybrid team event – making it a green event!

The teams only travel short distances and meet regionally in small groups. The small groups are connected via online technology. This creates a sense of togetherness within the group – and at the same time saves precious energy. When it comes to technology, the same factors are important as for an online team event.

Why have a green event at all?

Well, the need to protect the environment is obvious. At BITOU, we believe that the events industry should do its part. Above all, team events offer the potential for good ideas to have a lasting impact and be disseminated further, simply because of the number of participants.

Furthermore, the issue of sustainability is often anchored in corporate values or guidelines. Here, it is important to get employees on board and familiarise them with the topic. Only then can they identify with the company. In general, identification with the company is a very important issue. According to the Gallup study, employees feel less and less connected to their team and employer. This suggests a lack of identification and often has a negative impact on work performance. This is where we need to take action and counteract this with formats such as green events or ‘normal’ team building.

 

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What green events does BITOU offer?

We have taken a close look at all our team events and drastically reduced our consumption of resources. As a result, BITOU team events produce virtually no waste – and if they do, it is recycled. Here are a few specific examples:

Our Future City used to be built on a disposable hard foam board – today we use reusable screen printing plates. Consumption here is limited to the covering and paper.

For the chain reaction team event, we usually only use adhesive tape, a few balloons and cable ties. For the team event Rollercoaster, only four cable ties per participant are used, while for Adventure Everest, Before Mars and other products, one to three sheets of paper per participant are used. And the following team events do not require any materials at all: Haka, Smart City Challenge, Highland Games, Team Monopoly, Get the Code, Quiz Shows, Across the Hotel, Sustainability Challenge and Wind Park.