The European Sustainable Development Week (ESDW) is taking place from 30 May until 5 June, 2018. It is a European-wide initiative to stimulate and make visible activities, projects and events that promote sustainable development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
For the first time...
The Future Forward Summit on Sustainable Higher Education is taking place October 17th – 19th, 2018. It is organized by Ecocampus and COPERNICUS Alliance.
The conference aims to bring together people from all over the world who are connected to higher education and who are a part of making a...
To further explore themes associated with the diverse concepts of value, the Valuing Nature Programme is pleased to support this Call for Papers inviting abstracts on Theoretical traditions in social values for sustainability which will form a Special Feature of Sustainability Science edited by...
The Spring Campus of the University Alliance for Sustainability will take place from April 9-13, 2018 at Freie Universität Berlin (UHH cooperation partner in the university network HOCHN. The conference will be on the topic: “Moving Beyond the Ivory Tower: How do Science and Universities...
The "2nd Symposium on Sustainability in University Campuses" (co-organized by HAW Hamburg, cooperation partner of the Center for a Sustainable University within the "Hamburger Hochschulallianz für Nachhaltigkeit") will take place from December 10th to 12th 2018 in Florence.
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In the following you find an overview of recent state-of-the-art literature on sustainable development. The listed publications were produced by members of the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP) which is co-coordinated by HAW Hamburg (cooperation partner of the...
The National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina invites to its symposium „Brain Power for Sustainable Development: The Cognitive Preconditions for a Successful Sustainability Transition“ which takes place on June 13th 2018 in Berlin.
The adoption of the 2030 Agenda was a landmark achievement for...
Scientists of Hamburg's universities are invited to submit project proposals for the 2018 ASA University Cooperation until September 30th 2017. The ASA project is a learning and qualification program dedicated to development education based in Germany and funded by the Federal Ministry for...
HAW Hamburg (cooperation partner of the UHH within the network "Hamburger Hochschulallianz für Nachhaltigkeit") is involved in the organisation of various sustainability symposiums in 2017 and 2018 (see below). More information regarding the registration and submission of papers can be found on...
On September 7th and 8th Universität Hamburg invites to a convention on the topic of sustainable consumption entitled "Sustainable consumption: Information regulation, consumer behaviour, and the rule of law". At this KNU-supported event the following questions will be addressed:
What are the...
The International Transdisciplinarity Conference (ITD) 2017 takes place from September 11th to 15th and is co-organized by Leuphana University Lüneburg (member of the KNU-coordinated HOCHN project), Germany and the Network for Transdisciplinary Research of the Swiss Academies of Arts and...
Universities can play a key role in attempts to handle climate change.
With this end in mind, the 2nd Symposium "Universities and Climate Change" focussing on "The Role of Climate Change Research and Projects in Fostering Climate Action" is being organised by Manchester Metropolitan University...
After being selected as one of the UNESCO Key Partners of the Global Action Program on Education for a Sustainable Development (ESD) and hosting the Stakeholder Meetings of the UNESCO World Conference on ESD in 2014, Okayama City (Japan) is committed to further advance ESD beyond 2015. With...
As in previous years, the company unilever (globally largest producer of consumption goods, based in Hamburg) awards the annual Young Entrepreneurs Award – an award for entrepreneurs who address the most crucial social and ecological problems of our time by means of innovative products and...
On Tuesday June 1st 2017 there will be a public panel dealing with the topic of "Anthropocene Mobilities". The panel discussion is supposed to address the enormous challenges in the areas of global mobility and migration which arise from the processing environmental changes and globalisation...
Hands-on Workshop "Lean for Flourishing Startups – Business Modelling and Testing Lab"
Antony Upward, Flourishing Enterprise Designer from Toronto, and Ondine Hogeboom, Social Entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Lean4Flourishing from Montreal, offer a full-day workshop on flourishing business model...
Below you find several recent announcements regarding sustainability in higher education:
Call for Papers: 4th World Symposium on Sustainability at Universities (WSSD-U-2018)The World Symposium on Sustainability at Universities (WSSD-U) series is the world´s leading event on sustainability in...
In 2015, the UN General Assembly approved the „2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development“. However, until now there are no comprehensive publications addressing the SDGs in an integrated way. Therefore, the "Encyclopedia of the Sustainable Development Goals: Transforming the World We Want" is...
The application for this year´s Global Entrepreneurship Summer School (GESS) in September has opened recently. Students from everywhere in the world are invited to develop innovative and entrepreneurial solutions concerning the topic "Food".
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of...
The Universität Hamburg Equal Opportunity Fund is designed to promote general projects in the areas of studying, teaching, research, and administration as well as those that aim to dismantle gender discrimination.
The following projects and activities are eligible for funding:
Projects...