Other Event Archive

• Doing Good While Doing Your Job – Moving Toward a Circular Economy (during this time of Coronaviru – 27th May 2020

  Brought to you by the Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) and its members – a network of higher education associations with a commitment to advancing sustainability within their constituencies and the entire system of higher education. There is an urgent need to ...

• The fierce urgency of now - Navigating paradoxes in sustainability education – 20th May 2020 to 21st May 2020

  Today we face multiple challenges – social, economic and environmental – and a growing sense of urgency to act to address these. This was powerfully emphasised recently by Greta Thunberg when speaking at the World Economic Forum. "I want you to act as if you would in a crisis. I want ...

• oikos Case Writing Competition – 15th May 2020

  Case Writing Competition encourages the writing of high-quality cases on sustainability topics that can stimulate innovative teaching and learning experiences. The program aims at giving students the possibility to approach their faculty to start embedding sustainability into curricula through the u...

• The Impact Rankings webinar series: Analysis of the UK and Netherlands – 14th May 2020

  Vertigo Ventures, the team behind the Times Higher Impact Rankings, are running an analysis webinar for universities across the globe, with an in depth breakdown of how the nations (UK and Netherlands) performed in the Impact Rankings. A number of topics will be covered, including: • The vi...

• Is internationalisation sustainable? Addressing the challenges and finding solutions – 5th May 2020

  Internationalisation has become a fundamental part of how the UK higher education sector operates and is a large factor in its success. But the climate crisis and the launch of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 has led to questions about whether so much international activity and ambition...

• 2nd World Symposium on Social Responsibility and Sustainability – 27th April 2020 to 29th April 2020

  Social responsibility and sustainable development are two different concepts, whose integration over the years has led to significant progress in the way enterprises see and perceive their operations. It is not only about policies or steps taken to meet legal requirements, but it also about social e...

• Online seminar - Is it possible to have a green international strategy? – 24th April 2020

  #IHEFonline consists of five live online seminars, each one exploring a different facet of the fast-changing world of higher education. It will explore the future of international higher education, and consider the geopolitical, ethical and reputational challenges faced in international engagement, ...

• Symposium - Sustainability Development and Business Education – 20th April 2020 to 21st April 2020

  Sustainability Development and Business Education: fostering competences on matters related to sustainable development in business education programmes Promoting participatory and inclusive approaches to sustainability, towards the use of business education as a basis for a broader understanding ...

• 2020 Student Global Leadership Conference – 3rd April 2020 to 5th April 2020

  Encourage your undergraduate or graduate students to gain international conference experience and connect with other students from the US, UK, and around the world at the 2020 SGLC. Students will build a personal leadership action plan, participate in interactive breakout sessions, and hear from ins...

• oikos Curriculum Academy 2020 – 3rd April 2020 to 5th April 2020

  The oikos Curriculum Academy is a 3-day workshop for students, early career researchers, faculty representatives and other stakeholders, developed and facilitated by oikos student members. Its main purpose is to reflect and learn about innovative economics and management programs and teaching approa...

• Role of Universities in Addressing Societal Challenges & Fostering Democracy – 2nd April 2020 to 4th April 2020

  The Role of Universities in Addressing Societal Challenges and Fostering Democracy: Inclusion, Migration, and Education for Citizenship  The public and democratic role of universities has become an increasingly relevant topic in recent years in light of social, political and economic developments...

• Commitments for Future - Sustainability in Higher Education – 30th March 2020 to 3rd April 2020

  Freie Universität Berlin is the first university in Germany to declare a climate emergency and thus to join renowned international universities that make the topic of climate protection and  sustainability the focus of their institutional practice. In 2019, social movements raised awareness of cl...

• The Role of Universities in Addressing Societal Challenges and Fostering Democracy – 2nd April 2020 to 3rd April 2020

  The Role of Universities in Addressing Societal Challenges and Fostering Democracy: Inclusion, Migration, and Education for Citizenship The public and democratic role of universities has become an increasingly relevant topic in recent years in light of social, political and economic developments,...

• UAS Spring Campus Conference 2020 – 30th March 2020 to 3rd April 2020

  Spring Campus Conference 2020: "Commitments for Future: Sustainability in Higher Education" We are delighted to announce that the calls for abstracts for oral & poster presentations for the 5th Spring Campus Conference of the University Alliance for Sustainability: "Commitments for Future: Sustai...

• Food Waste - Small Group Meeting – 1st April 2020 to 2nd April 2020

  The Small Group Meetings are an initiative by EuroCHRIE to support an in-depth exchange of ideas on special topics in the field of hospitality and tourism.  FOOD WASTE The small group meeting (SGM) will be on the topic of food waste as one of society’s greatest financial, economic and et...

• Global Virtual Conference - Epidemiology and economics of coronavirus – 30th March 2020

  The COVID-19 global health pandemic is rapidly changing the ways we live and work. In the age of sustainable development and at a time when the world is working towards achieving the SDGs, this disease is complicating SDG implementation efforts as well as posing a real risk to achieving targets on c...

• Earth Hour – 28th March 2020

  Started by WWF and partners as a symbolic lights-out event in Sydney in 2007, Earth Hour is now one of the world's largest grassroots movements for the environment, engaging millions of people in more than 180 countries and territories. It has become a catalyst for positive environmental impact, dri...

• Women in Public Sector Leadership 2020: Breaking Down Barriers To Success – 26th March 2020

  Although it is encouraging that women have made up more than half of all civil servants since 2001, only 43% of senior civil servants are women. While there has been an upward trend in the proportion of female senior civil servants, the same cannot be said for heads of departments, with only six out...

• Heat and Decentralised Energy Conference 2020 – 25th March 2020

  The Heat and Decentralised Energy Conference 2020 will focus on levelling up with local energy. Decentralised energy is local energy: from demand side response operating on air conditioners in the high street supermarket, to local energy centres serving district heat networks, to the smart systems m...

• The Geneva Challenge – 23rd March 2020

  The Geneva Challenge is a project that aims to encourage interdisciplinary problem solving analysis among master students on advancing human development within the scope of a relevant topic. This year, students are invited to develop analysis-based proposals on "The Challenges of Social Inclusion...