Category Archives: Events

SERI’s ERDgespräche Side-Event: City Walk “Green Vienna”
Together with our partner Mutmacherei, SERI will organise a city walk in Vienna on the occasion of this year’s ERDgespräche. The city walk will be held in German; find more information here [...].

Review: Brownbag-seminar on sustainability sciences and their attitude towards technology
On Thursday, March 29th 2012, SERI-researcher Christian Kerschner held an informative brownbag seminar at SERI and discussed the various attitudes of researchers towards technology. He gave an insight into his survey on the attitudes of ecological economists which was conducted during the ISEE conference 2010 in Bremen-Oldenburg. The participants also reflected on their own attitudes [...]

27 -28 November 2012: International Conference on Sustainable Business and Consumption (SusCon 2012) in Bonn
At this conference on “green economy – from intention to action”, the results of the Rio+20 conference will be discussed, practical approaches for sustainable solutions will be developed and case studies which show sucessfully implemented solutions will be presented. Moreover there will be room for discussions and networking. [more]

30 may to 1 june: Green ICT for Growth and Sustainability?
Linking Science and Policy: Event within the scope of the EU project “Responder”
ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) are widely regarded as enablers of “green growth” in various sectors of the economy, but at the same time expanded technology use raises energy consumption. Hence, there are various questions regarding the effects of ICTs on sustainable development.
Various keynote speakers, namely Lorenz Erdmann, Lorenz Hilty, Peter Johnston, Inge Ropke and Vida Rozite, will talk about different issues related to this topic. Participants are welcome to get active during the panel discussions and mapping sessions.

EcoChange Final Conference in Zurich
The final conference on the EcoChange project took place in march in Zurich, Switzerland. EcoChange is a 5-year EU project with 23 partner institutions from all across Europe, investigating the impacts of global climate change on biodiversity and its capacity provide for human needs in the coming decades. SERI researchers Ines Omann [...], Julia Wesely

(Deutsch) Brownbag mit Christian Kerschner am 29. März am SERI
(Deutsch) Am Donnerstag, 29. März 2012, gibt es wieder ein Brownbag-Seminar: SERI-Forscher Christian Kerschner spricht über den Technologiebegriff und Einstellungen zu Technologie in den Nachhaltigkeitswissenschaften. (…)

(Deutsch) Brownbag mit Dr. Wilfried Altzinger am 28. Februar am SERI
(Deutsch) Am Dienstag, 28. Februar 2012, gibt es wieder ein Brownbag-Seminar am SERI: Dr. Wilfried Altzinger von der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien spricht über aktuelle Thesen zu Ökologie und Verteilungspolitik.

