The XV World Forestry Congress (XV WFC) will be held from 2 to 6 May 2022 in Seoul, Republic of Korea. The Congress was originally scheduled for May of 2021, but was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The theme of the XV WFC is Building a Building a Green, Healthy [...]
Digital ecosystems need an orchestrator for the ecosystem to integrate several players and parts of the ecosystem. Digital platforms, act as an orchestrator for this ecosystem. In recent years several projects are funded by the European Commission to address the topic of digital platforms for digital transformation in [...]
This Summit will be the celebration of the success and achievements from cooperation across Smart Communities and a opportunity for mutually commit to share challenges and smart solutions. It will gather local and regional leaders from across Europe to discuss how to involve the citizens and stakeholders in [...]
This event is organised by 3 projects funded by Horizon 2020 - Nefertiti (www.nefertiti-h2020.eu), IPMWORKS (www.ipmworks.net) and IPMDecisions (www.ipmdecisions.net). You will have the opportunity to have a macro vision on the main outputs and outcomes of these projects , as well as their future developments. The event is [...]
The workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners i) to discuss their current work focusing on requirements, design, frameworks, and empirical studies with regard to emerging opportunities and challenges of CPSS for sustainability, ii) to identify the main challenges and define a research agenda on [...]
F&A Next is an initiative by Rabobank, Wageningen University & Research, Anterra Capital and StartLife, collectively believing that innovation will be key to sustainably feeding future generations. Disruptive innovation in itself is not enough; it also needs to be implemented and transformed into tangible applications. Entrepreneurs are needed for their drive, [...]
KINESIS project (Knowledge alliance for social innovation in Shrinking villages) is organising webinars on depopulation and shrinkage on Wednesdays. This last session will discuss on the role of social enterprises in rural community development.
Living Labs / Multi-Actor Platforms are increasingly considered by innovation policies as drivers of transformative change. Indeed, the interaction between stakeholders is supposed to generate innovation adapted to the needs of users and their context and to promote inclusion. A reflection is needed, both on the effectiveness of Living [...]
The 14th International Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics takes place exactly 50 years after the UN conference on the human environment, where the UN acknowledged the environmental crisis. Yet the current state of the environmental crisis seems to indicate that the needed actions and policies [...]
On 14-15 June the H2020 ROSEWOOD4.0 project will hold its final event in Barcelona, Spain (hosted in a hybrid format). The event is co-organised by the European Forest Institute (EFI) and Steinbeis Europa Zentrum (SEZ) and will consist of 3 sessions with innovation towards a more sustainable forestry sector [...]