The Sustainable Society Foundation, SSF, is a non-profit organization, established in 2006 with the objective of stimulating and assisting societies in their development towards sustainability. The SSF is based in The Netherlands and operates globally. The SSF has developed the Sustainable Society Index, SSI, which shows at a glance the level of sustainability of 151 countries.
About SSF
With the objective of stimulating and assisting societies in their development towards sustainability, the Sustainable Society Foundation – SSF – has been established in 2006 as a private initiative by Geurt van de Kerk and Arthur Manuel. The main objective remains to further develop the Sustainable Society Index – SSI – and to publish and disseminate the results every two years. The SSI has been developed for 151 countries on national level. Nowadays the SSI has been implemented on regional level as well. We are working on the development of the SSI on local level.
Furthermore, SSF is involved in various fields of promoting sustainability: development and implementation of projects aiming at development towards sustainability, research projects, lectures and contribution to sustainability courses and support of students.
The SSF has an extensive world-wide network of experts who support and contribute to the work of SSF, as well with respect to methodological aspects as to the various elements of sustainability.
Projects
Over the period since 2004 the Sustainable Society Foundation was involved in the following projects
- SSI-2014, the new update, published December 2014
- SCI, the second edition of the Sustainable City Index (SCI 2.0), published September 2014
- SCI, the first edition of the Sustainable City Index (SCI 2014), published January 2014
- SSI-2012, the nfourth edition, published November 2012. Download
- Audit of the SSI by Joint Research Center, JRC, of the European Commission, 2012.
- SSI-2010, the third edition, published December 2010. Download.
- Study on the developments towards a sustainable society over the period 1975 – 2008, for Finland and The Netherlands, 2010. Download
- Evaluation of the SSI, resulting in a redesign, 2009 – 2010. Download
- SSI on regional level. A tailor made index on regional level has been developed for the eight regions of Romania. The results were presented mid 2009.
Read more on www.romaniadurabila.net. - SSI-2008, the first two-yearly update, published December 2008. Download
- INHOLLAND University, development and implementation of a sustainability index for Greenhouse Culture, based on the SSI, 2008-2009.
- Romania, on its way to a sustainable society. Development and implementation of a tailor made measuring and monitoring tool, based on the SSI, for Romania on national level, 2007-2008.
Read more on www.romaniadurabila.net. - SSI-2006, identification and development of a new set of indicators to measure the level of sustainability for 151 countries and integrating the results in a single index, 2004 – 2006. Download
- Courses: SSF has contributed to various courses. Among these were lectures and workshops on Introduction to Sustainable Development and on the Economic Pillar of SD, both for courses of the REC Center (Hungary) in Budva, Montenegro, May 2009 and May 2010.
- Conferences: SSF has contributed to many international conferences and workshops.
Phone: +31 317 750 645
Email: info@ssfindex.com
Coordinates
Sustainable Society Foundation, Wassenaarseweg 16,2596 CH The Hague,The Netherlands
+31 317 750 645
info@ssfindex.com