Month: October 2018

Green-Blue Shipping and Sustainable Marine Resources Management

What did  Carleen Lyden Walker, co-founder, executive director, North American Marine Environment Protection Association, NAMEPA, IMO maritime ambassador, Abdellah Srour, executive secretary, General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM), Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, Georgios Gratsos, chairman, Hellenic Marine Environment Protection Association (HELMEPA), Vasileios Lampropoulos, chief operating officer, Thenamaris Ships Management, Charis Plakantonaki, chief strategy officer, …

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New Technologies and Education Facilitating the SDG’s

What did Athanasios Polychronopoulos, executive chairman, Polyeco Group, Philip Vafiadis, founder & chairman, Innovyz Institute, Australia, Rossella Cardone, head of sustainability and corporate responsibility, Ericsson, Yannis Ioannidis, president and general director, “Athena” Research and Innovation Center, professor, department of informatics and telecommunications, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, and Theodore Dalamagas, principal researcher and vice-director of Information Management Systems …

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Climate change:Bridging the gap between innovation and investment

What did Mike Cherrett, Director, Climate KIC Europe, Marily Konstantinopoulou, scientific associate, Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, Roelof Moll, project manager, BRIGAID, Michael Iggy Litaor, professor, head, MIGAL, Hydrogeochemistry Lab, Katerina Pramatari, associate professor, department of management science & technology, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) and Phoebe Koundouri, co-chair UN SDSN Greece, professor, Athens University of Economics and Business, talk …

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Sustainable and Smart Cities: Where Growth can overcome obstacles and lead to prosperity

What did Kostas Bakoyannis, regional governor, Central Greece, Greek leadership council member, United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), Arab Hoballah, director, EU SWITCH-Asia SCP Facility, Bangkok, Dimitris Papastergiou, mayor, Municipality of Trikala, Eleni Myrivili, deputy mayor of urban nature, resilience & climate change adaption, Athens and Marnie McGregor, director, intergovernmental relations & strategic partnerships, City …

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Welcome to SIMRA’s 5th newsletter!

SIMRA (Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas) is a four-year project (2016-2020) funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme. It aims to advance understanding of social innovation and innovative governance in agriculture, forestry and rural development – and how to boost them – in marginalised rural areas across Europe and around the Mediterranean, including non-EU countries. Welcome back to …

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2nd Sustainability Summit for South East Europe and the Mediterranean: Pursuing Sustainability

What lies ahead in achieving the SDGs?   More than 400 participants, key thinkers, business leaders, policymakers, scientists, researchers, advocates and investors participated in the 2ndSustainability Summit for South East Europe and the Mediterranean which was held on the 1st and the 2nd of October 2018, in Athens. The 2nd Sustainability Summit was organized by …

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