40 SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production – Chivite

Group Reflection

Concluding this sustainability project focused on a notable wine company has surely been a rather enlightening experience. Their dedication to sustainable practices, pollution reduction, and active environmental advocacy sets a commendable standard, and it makes it even more special when one takes into account that sustainability in wine was a never-thought-of modus operandi. The company’s commitment to sustainability, evident from vineyard to product, stands out as a very rare example in the wine industry. They’ve not just embraced eco-conscious measures but have innovatively integrated them into their business model, showcasing a visionary approach. As a potential heir to the company name and business, it crosses my mind to follow the wise example of the current owners. Sustainability is something that is here to stay and the climate situation speaks for itself. That’s why, somehow, this project has helped to plant a seed, so to say, to take into consideration and act based on the environment well-being in our future business ventures.

It has always been in our interest to interact with people from other countries and through Aim2Flourish we have been given the opportunity and privilege to do so. The company that we chose if from Spain and it is called Chivite, a winery company in favor of sustainable goals. It has been a great discovery to find out more about the sustainable methods that are implemented in this company, of which have been going on for decades now. As this is a company which will later be managed by one of our group members we as a team are delighted to find out and see the more amazing and sustainable innovations that with come out of the company .We would say that as a team we were all active and we all took portions of work without really communicating, I suppose it was more of each of us taking on the work that they have the most strength on and another doing so, we liked how one of the members would come and back us up or help if one of us was struggling to submit the work. Also, we never had conflicts or any arguments ,we believe that shows how united we are and how we were willing to understand each other’s differences. Above all we were used to learning about the United Nations goals for sustainable development in class only ,and it was a great and eye opening to see how they are implemented in different businesses and specifically the company that we chose. From this cross-cultural experience we learned how to effectively communicate with one another even though we are far from each other, communication skills, creativity in terms of creating the poster, we learned how to approach and conduct interviews with a well-established company and last but not least ,we learned how to be united regardless of how diverse we all are.

We personally learned a lot from this experience. It was very exciting, and it was a pleasing experience to get to know this group of students from all around the world. Sometimes it was really stressful to manage all the different time zones in order to have a proper meeting, but I think we managed it flawlessly. The communication was not really a challenge because of the fact that all of us speak English good enough in order to communicate without problems. It is true that sometimes we had to meet at strange times of the day because of the time differences in each country but as a team we managed to successfully get together most of the times. We had nearly no virtual problems, sometimes the recording didn’t work or the microphones or cameras for example but nothing we weren’t able to overcome. All in all, it was a great experience and we are glad and had such a great group. It was stressful sometimes because we were writing exams, but we were able to balance the work. Sometimes we also had a problem with the submission, but we were able to submit all our assignments . we have learnt a lot from all the other students, especially about the SDG, we got to get a different view about it, their knowledge and opinions added a different detail to what we initially knew.