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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 …

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

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 to SIMRA’s 5th newsletter! Read More »

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 …

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

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 …

The official inauguration of Climate Kic Greece Hub! Read More »

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 …

On the 1st of October 2018, the official inauguration ceremony of EIT Climate-KIC Hub Greece will take place at Hilton Hotel, Athens ! Read More »

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 …

Τhe 8th International Conference on Water Resources and Environment Research, 14-18 June 2019, Hohai University, Nanjing, China Read More »

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 …

Eurosoil 2020 conference In Geneva! Read More »

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 …

Phoebe Koundouri’s Speech on Sustainable Development / Project Agora Junior Fellows – Andreas Papandreou Foundation – The speech took place at the amazing Laskarides Foundation Premises in Piraeus! Read More »

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 …

Water Innovation Europe 2018 has been successfully concluded ! Read More »

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 …

In October, two GLOBAQUA events (Course and Conference about Water Management) are taking place in Agadir, Morocco. Read More »

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” …

WCERE 2018 – 6th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists took place from the 25th to the 29th of June 2018 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Read More »

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 …

SDG INDEX 2018 has been released! Read More »

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 …

Dr. Nikos Englezos 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. Read More »

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 …

On Thursday 28 June Prof. Andreas Papandreou has been invited to represent SDSN at the event:1000 Ημέρες SDGs organised by Οργάνωση Γη (www.organizationearth.org) @ Γη Κ44 (Κωνσταντινουπόλεως 44 – Κεραμεικός) Read More »

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 …

” Water Innovation Europe 2018 ” took place on June 13th and 14th in Brussels, Belgium at the BluePoint center. / Prof. Koundouri gave a keynote speech on ” Smart Sustainable Cities ” at Water Innovation Europe 2018. Read More »

The website of climate kic europe: http://www.climate-kic.org/   The Partners of EIT Climate KIC Hub in Greece are: 1). ATHENA Research & Innovation Information Technologies https://www.athena-innovation.gr/en 2). Academy of Athens http://www.academyofathens.gr/ 3). Uni fund MAKE IT HAPPEN http://uni.fund/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI08f7qaKF3AIV2eFRCh11ggrEEAAYASAAEgLt_fD_BwE 4). European Regional Framework for Co-operation: ERFC 5). http://www.unsdsn.gr/ 6). Ιδρυμα Οικονομικών και Βιομηχανικών Ερευνών http://iobe.gr/ 7). Eunice Energy Group …

” EIT Climate-KIC Hub Onboarding & Partner Days EIT Regional Innovation Scheme ” held in Brussels on the 14 and 15 of June 2018. Read More »