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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 […]

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

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

Welcome speeches:  ”Monitoring SDGs in the Black Sea and in the Mediterranean Region” 1). Prof. Phoebe KOUNDOURI, Athens University of Economics & Business, Co-Chair of SDSN Greece 2). Prof. Nicolaos THEODOSSIOU, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Chair of SDSN Black Sea Find out more here

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

On the 1st of October 2018, the official inauguration ceremony of EIT Climate-KIC Hub Greece will take place at Hilton Hotel, Athens ! EIT Climate-KIC is EU’s largest public-private partnership focused on climate innovation to mitigate and adapt to climate change and has established hubs in all European Countries (www.climate-kic.org). It aims to address climate

EIT Climate-KIC is EU’s largest public-private partnership focused on climate innovation to mitigate and adapt to climate change and has established hubs in all European Countries (www.climate-kic.org). It aims to address climate change across four priority themes: urban areas, land use, production systems, decision metrics and finance. Education is at the heart of these themes

Prof. Dr. Phoebe Koundouri (AUEB, LSE, ATHENA, ICRE8) will give a lecture on ” Interdisciplinary Approach towards a “fully integrated” sustainable development ” at Siena Summer School on Sustainable Development, The University of Siena, Italy. You can find the programme here: http://santachiaralab.unisi.it/siena-summer-school-on-sustainable-development/programma/ Programme  

Special Issue Water Resources Economics based on Contributions to the 8th International Conference on Water Resources and Environment Research, 14-18 June 2019, Hohai University, Nanjing, China Organizer/chair: Roy Brouwer, Executive Director of the Water Institute and Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Waterloo, Canada Scope and aims: Planet earth faces increasingly imminent water

For more details on the summit you may visit the website below. Website

The Swiss Soil Science Society is happy to meet the European soil community in summer 2020 at the Eurosoil conference in Geneva. Eurosoil 2020 shall not only be a scientific meeting but also tries to motivate all the representatives of soil-related stakeholders as well as the interested public. In a first step, the organizing committee has defined 6 conference

Phoebe Koundouri‘s Speech on Sustainable Development / Project Agora Junior Fellows – Andreas Papandreou Foundation (http://www.iap.gr). The speech took place at the amazing Laskarides Foundation Premises in Piraeus! (http://www.laskaridisfoundation.org/en/) Background on the program: Building on our successful Young Leaders Project<http://www.youngleadersproject.org/> Initiative which runs again in the framework of our annual Symi Symposium in Rhodes on

The Water Innovation Europe 2018 edition dedicated to “The road towards a water-smart society: Overcoming the water challenges of the future” was concluded on the 14^th of June in Brussels, with about 200 participants joining us from the whole water sector. The two special ingredients woven into the fabric of this year’s programme: a strong

1.    Training course on: Knowledge Brokerage for River Basin Management (3 Oct) The course aims to deliver knowledge and skills for a better use of scientific and stakeholder knowledge essential for River Basin Management. Participants will learn new methods to share knowledge and strengthen the relationships between science and policy for river basin management under

The WCERE 2018 – 6th World Congress of Environmental and Resources Economists was a huge success with about 1,500 participants! It took place from the 25th to the 29th of June 2018 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Several of the sessions were recorded and are available to watch on the congress website: Policy keynote lecture: “Environmental Policy and the Assault on Science”

For the first time, the SDG Index and Dashboards 2018 report compares the performance of all 193 UN countries on the Sustainable Development Goals and 2030 Agenda. Which countries are on track to achieve the SDGs (and which SDGs in particular) and which ones are on track to fail? The report examines how G20 countries

Dr. Nikos Englezos, Academic Manager of the Department of Economics and Econometrics: Modelling and Applications at ICRE8, participated in the joint conference of the 7th European Bioremediation Conference (EBC-VII) and the 11th International Society for Environmental Biotechnology conference (ISEB 2018), held in Chania, Greece, 25-28 June, 2018. The conference was co-organized by the Technical University

On Thursday 28 June Prof. Andreas Papandreou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Scientific Director of PESD, Co-Chair of SDSN-Greece) has been invited to represent SDSN at the event:1000 Ημέρες SDGs organised by Οργάνωση Γη (www.organizationearth.org) @ Γη Κ44 (Κωνσταντινουπόλεως 44 – Κεραμεικός). https://www.facebook.com/EarthK44/ https://maps.google.com/?q=%CE%9A%CF%89%CE%BD%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%80%CF%8C%CE%BB%CE%B5%CF%89%CF%82+44+%E2%80%93+%CE%9A%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C%CF%82&entry=gmail&source=g>)! You can find the newsletter of Organizationearth below: https://madmimi.com/p/427b6c?fe=1&pact=186180-145946410-10774163539-649b42feb8c50df875ec95d3c2eee9f27846cf2a PARTICIPANTS

13-14 June, Brussels. Water Innovation Europe 2018 organised by WssTP (European Water Supply and Sanitation Technology Platform). Under the theme ” Water-Smart Society: “Overcoming the water challenges of the future”, WssTP biggest annual event focused on bringing together people from the whole water chain to debate, discuss and shape, a resilient water future. WssTP was giving shape