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SERI @ Ute Bock-Cup 2012
SERI will participate at the charitable Ute Bock Cup on 3 June 2012. The Ute Bock Cup is a voluntarily organized and realized football charity event in support of the association “Flüchtlingsprojekt Ute Bock” (refugee project Ute Bock). The main aim of the event is to collect money for the association and to draw attention [...]
SERI recommends: SOL – people for solidarity, ecology and lifestyle
SERI recommends the monthly SOL-meeting:
Fr, 18 may: “Living together solidarily in a housing project”
Programme: Cooking and eating together, followed by a discussion group in which the housing project “Gennesaret” is presented and SOL includes the global aspect of solidarity. Registration: vera@besse.at, 0699/ 11 24 12 59
Time: 18 may 2012, 16:30-22:00 (discussion group [...]
Conference: Region is future – open thinking spaces for new entrepreneurship. 11-13 june, Stift Ossiach, Carinthia
From 11-13 june, the IFZ (Institut für Zukunftskompetenz) congress on “regions as area for the development of new economic and life-concepts”. Well-known experts from different areas will dedicate themselves to the topic “region is future – cooperation instead of competition”. SERI is involved too: Fritz Hinterberger [...] will give a keynote speech on “challenges and perspectives
Report on the conference “market economy for the future: shapes of a sustainable economy”
SERI researcher Ines Omann was at a conference on “market economy for the future: shapes of a sustainable economy [...]” on 12 april.
This conference was organized under the direction of Univ.Prof. DDDr. Clemens Sedmak, Ines Omann moderated a workshop. She chose the topic “Conflicts in sustainable behaviour”. 12 people from several different areas
Report on resource efficiency indicators and targets for the EU
In a new report, BIO Intelligence Service, the Institute of Social Ecology and SERI present a basket of resource use indicators and corresponding targets for the Europe 2020 Flagship Initiative on Resource Efficiency. The researchers suggest a set of consumption and production based indicators that covers both, the environmental pressures and impacts from material, energy, [...]
Project BENE (citizen action for sustainable energy) completed
In the beginning of april, a workshop in the context of the project BENE [...] took place in the Eco-Region Kaindorf as the final project activity.
The project BENE (Citizen action for sustainable energy) consists of three parts: First, it assessed the potential of active citizen engagement in energy issues as a contribution to more energy-aware
Sustainability in urban planning, construction and living
A house has diverse meanings for people. In terms of conceptual history, it has the same root as „skin“ and therefore does not only function as protection against the outside, but shows to some extent the character of its inhabitants – after skin and clothing, the house is our “third skin”. The house offers living and [...]
SERI recommends: Common welfare economy event (Methods of Cooperation). Thursday, 26 april, in Vienna
Thursday, 26 april 2012, 19:00
Methods of cooperation – part 4 (last part)
Lecture room EH02, 1. floor
BOKU Wilhelm-Exner- Haus
Peter Jordan-Straße 82
A-1190 Wien
•Martina Handler: Dynamic Facilitation by Jim Rough – decisions which follow from understanding and which no longer have to be made.
•Nicole Lieger: How Open Space principles can change [...]
RESPONDER (Sustainable Consumption and Growth Debates): Upcoming events
The overall aim of the RESPONDER project is to promote sustainable consumption by exploring novel ways of knowledge brokerage that help to improve the management of potential political, social and economic contradictions with economic growth. RESPONDER links four communities: science, policy, pro-growth and beyond growth. The well-established method of “participatory system mapping” is used to [...]
