Author name: Mary Psilou

Οn Monday, October 24, the Hellenic Association of Insurance Companies organized a event on the topic: “Insurance industry contribution in building a sustainable future”, at Technopolis City of Athens – Auditorium “Miltiadis Evert”. Distinguished personalities from Greece and abroad with expertise in sustainability issues participated as speakers. Prof. Phoebe Koundouri gave the keynote speech on

On Wednesday, October 26, Retina, the digital vertical on Prisa trends, held an event focused on the dramatic and ongoing transformation the world is experiencing since the Covid pandemic. Under the title of Retina, Year Zero, and with the motto “Ideas for a brand new world”, the conference proposed “a critical reflection on some of

The First Dolomite Conference on the Global Governance of Climate Change: On the road to Sharm El-Sheikh From the 20th – 22nd October in a three-day meeting thirty visionary intellectuals, policy makers, entrepreneurs, managers, journalists, political and natural scientists met to discuss the matter of climate change and find innovative solutions. The whole conference has

From the 11th to 14th of October 2022, more than 60 managers from 50 national and regional networks joined a four-day hybrid workshop from Kigali, Kuala Lumpur, New York, Paris, and online. The 2022 network managers workshop gave the global team a chance to reconnect in person after a long period of virtual convenings. SDSN

On Thursday, October 20, Prof. Phoebe Koundouri gave the keynote speech at the 10th edition of STRATEGICA International Conference: Sustainable Development and Strategic Growth. Her speech focused on “Accelerating SDG-based Sustainability Transition”. Prof. Koundouri connected the dots between four major policy initiatives – the SDGs, the European Green Deal, the European Semester, and the EU

From 10 – 14 October members of European Junior Water Programme (EJWP) Groups 3 and 4 combined expertise and learning paths in a Training Week hosted by the University of Thessaly, in Athens. The week saw immersion in European projects along with development activities and experiences in local culture and history. Chrysi Laspidou, Professor of

From the 5th to 6th of October, the second part of the InnoWise Scale networking workshop with problem holders took place at the San Mamés Stadium in Bilbao, Spain. ATHENA RC was represented by Ms. Lydia Papadaki (Sustainable Development Unit at the ATHENA RC).  In parallel to this workshop, two events were taking place at

The International Conference on “Dialogue and Cooperation in the Black Sea and the Balkan Regions” was held in Bucharest, Romania on 12 – 14 October. This International Congress organized by University of Bucharest, Black Sea Universities Network, Balkan Universities Association, the World Academy of Art & Science, and the World University Consortium. The conference included

On Tuesday, October 11, Professor Phoebe Koundouri, participated in the Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences (WAAS). After three years, this was the first personal meeting organized in Bucharest. Discussion topics included procedural and organizational issues related to the upcoming WAAS activities, the Board also welcomed

On Tuesday 11 October at the Frontiers Forum  “A safe and just future within planetary boundaries” Prof Johan Rockström, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany gave an keynote address on how many of these nine boundaries are now breached and present new data on the boundaries’ interactions.A discussion with high-level policy and other experts

  Under the umbrella of the H2020 funded BRIDGE-BS, the Blue Economy High-Tech for the Black Sea is a large research-based Black Sea forum on ocean digitalization and Industry 4.0 across academia, research organizations, investors, industry, and society at large. It aims to provide a meeting point for industry and research to generate and incubate