26-28 May 2009, Brussels
Charlemagne building

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Presentations and Reports

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Audio recordings

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DAY 1 – 26.05.2009

10:00 – 11:30
Opening session: Achievements, challenges and expectations (show details)
11:30 – 11:45
Coffee Break
11:45 – 13:00
Sustainable development: a matter of life and death (show details)
13:00 – 14:30
Lunch break
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14:30 – 16:30
Parallel sessions
1. Research for sustainable development: who is accountable? (show details)
2. Sustainable cities: from an oxymoron to a target (show details)
3. Cash and Theory:*
Corporate responsibility, life-cycle assessments and environmental technologies for economic development (show details)
4. Still waters run deep:*
Tools and methods for water management (show details)
16:30 – 17:00
Coffee break
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17:00 – 19:00
Parallel sessions
5. How can R&D help industry's transition towards sustainable production? (hide details)
Room: Jean Durieux (S4)
Moderator:
Werner Bosmans – European Commission Directorate-General for Environment, Sustainable production and consumption
Shadow rapporteur:
Michel Poireau – European Commission Directorate-General for Research, Industrial technologies
Over the last 30 years, technical advances have contributed to improve dramatically the efficient use of energy and primary resources at the assembly and production stages. However, the increased need to reduce the environmental footprint of the whole production chain, from raw materials extraction to final product delivery, use, maintenance and end of life call for new economic and technical challenges. Hence the importance of novel approaches through research (promoting enhanced ecodesign, using the potential of "converging technologies", of mimicking nature etc) for achieving substantial and cost- effective progress towards
  • minimisation of inputs
  • optimisation of use and maintenance
  • improvement of recovery
  • increased recycling of industrial products and of the related services attached to them.
Speakers:
Michael Matlosz – E.N.S.I.C., France
Wolfgang Dienemann – Heidelberg Cement Technology Centre, Germany
Gunnar Svedberg – STFI-Packforst AB, Sweden
Marco Taisch – Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Presentations
6. Car electrification: on the path towards sustainable road transport? (show details)
7. Live and learn:*
Towards social sustainability (show details)
8. Sustainable development in the city:*
Groundwater recharge, water management and spatial planning (show details)
19:00 - 20:30
Cocktail
Room: Exhibition area
Side event by the Czech Presidency of the EU

DAY 2 – 27.05.2009

09:00 – 10:00
Award ceremony for the competition of the call for papers (show details)
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee break
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10:30 – 13:00
Parallel sessions
9. Presentation of winning papers (1)* (show details)
10. Foresight and public goods - A new framing for agricultural research (show details)
11. Enhancing global sustainability through international cooperation (show details)
12. Changing mindset in industry (show details)
13:00 – 14:30
Lunch
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14:30 – 16:30
Parallel sessions
13. Economics, employment, behaviour and territorial dynamics (show details)
14. Alternative visions: the contributions of civil society organisations to research for sustainable development (show details)
15. Fix it !*
Approaches for sustainable solutions (show details)
16. “Yes, we did”:*
Shared experiences of strengthening the sustainability of research (show details)
16:30 – 17:00
Coffee break
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17:00 – 19:00
Parallel sessions
17. Nuclear energy and sustainability: the role of research (show details)
18. Interactions and feedbacks between ecosystems and climate change (show details)
19. New imaginings* (show details)
20. Promises:*
How to deal with unsustainability? (show details)
19:30 – 21:30
Dinner
Room: Brussels town hall
Access upon presentation of conference badge only

DAY 3 – 28.05.2009

09:00 – 10:00
Developmental difficulties (show details)
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee break
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10:30 – 13:00
Parallel sessions
21. Presentation of winning papers (2)* (show details)
22. A gram of prevention is worth a kilo of cure: environmental research is a good investment (show details)
23. Can research bring about an energy revolution? (show details)
24. A pathway to sustainable development: a German perspective (show details)
14:30 – 16:00
Between past and future (show details)
16:00 – 16:15
Coffee break
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16:15 – 17:30
New beginnings (show details)

* Half the parallel sessions – those marked with an asterisk (*) – are built on the basis of the call for papers, peer-reviewed by the scientific committee. The other half of the sessions was developed at the initiative of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Research