Case study: sustainable summer event for 350 staff on a Rhine island

In 2022, Finanz Informatik Solutions Plus GmbH invited its 350 staff to a summer celebration and team event on a Rhine island near Mainz. As an event agency, Servicebroker designed a sustainable day on which everyone pitched in together: guests cycled instead of taking shuttles, and a marquee big enough for everyone stood ready for rain.

Servicebroker GmbH · owner- and family-run event agency in Munich · since 1999

our client

Finanz Informatik Solutions Plus GmbH

The Challenge

A lavish open-air summer celebration and team event

Regional and seasonal sourcing, organic quality with animal welfare in mind, short distances, partners, venues and caterers who act sustainably – for us as an event agency, these are minimum standards. Instead of going cheap, we recommend less, but better. But that's not enough!

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To really live the idea of sustainability, you have to build relationships with the environment, with nature and with society. As at this team event. Our client invited 350 guests to an island in the heart of Germany, in the Rhine near Mainz – open air, interactive and playful.

We all went everywhere by bike, hugged trees and recycled our tableware. Then we turned the compost into lavender oil and gave it away at Christmas.

This was made possible by circular-economy workshops in which guests sorted waste and composted the organic part. And the oil? The compost went into the soil, lavender grew in it, and the lavender became oil. The guests received it as a Christmas present. It doesn't get more circular than that!

Research supports this approach. A review of 51 controlled studies shows that teams work better together when they become active themselves, for example in workshops; lectures alone do not achieve this (McEwan et al. 2017, PLOS ONE). And 195 findings link cohesion and performance most strongly where people work together on a task (Grossman et al. 2022, Organizational Psychology Review). On the Rhine island, one of these tasks was the cycle from organic waste to lavender oil. Others were clay pigeon shooting, ball games, chopping veg and cooking. Each time the team had a goal in sight, and the cheers were loud when they hit it.

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