Date: 25/09/2008 Time:
09:00 - 10:30 Location: Hall F.1
Target Audience: national, European and international / science (universities and private institutes), science policy (ministries, departments), international funding agents for sustainability science
Objectives:
Identification of future research foci for sustainability science,
identification of needs for action of actors in science and science policy,
discussion of possible contributions of sustainability science to innovations,
discussion of possible benefits from stronger international cooperation.
Format: Short inputs from the presenters (10 min each), Panel discussion / open expert interviews, open discussion with the participants of the session. Language:
English
The rationale of the session Session E1 is to open the debate on roles and functions of science for sustainable development and to discuss as concrete as possible current developments and lessons learned of this relatively new field in different parts of the globe. It focuses on recent developments for Sustainability Science in USA (Arizona State University / Roundtable for Science and Technology for Sustainability), Japan (IR3S) and Europe. The session targets at identifying needs for development of research and communication formats for sustainability science, needs for action for science policy making and possible benefits from international cooperation to reach at a better understanding of future paths for sustainability science.
Buizer, James L. Science Policy Advisor to the President & Director for Strategic Institutional Advancement, Office of the President, Arizona State University, USA
Contribution of research to a competitive and sustainable Europe
The session opened the perspectives for the future of research towards sustainable development. By providing concrete experiences from Japan, the USA and Europe examples were given on how to reform education and research designs for contributions to sustainable development.
Research priority areas for the foreseeable future
Key priority is to adapt the frameworks of research themselves to the requirements of research towards sustainable development. Challenges lay in the inter- and transdisciplinary integration of traditional academic disciplines and other co-producers of knowledge from industry, the polity and civil society.
Other important issues or topics discussed during the session
Sustainability science in the broad sense used in this session has to be built up from the very beginning of the education process, that is already in basic education, in secondary and university education.
Talking about the university systems in Europe – a great reform process has to be started to actually allow for a science 'of a third type'
Organisation
Dr. Peter Moll
science development
Viktoriastr. 49
42115 Wuppertal
Tel.: (49) 0202 -7991628
Mobil: (49) 0160 - 976 227 25 moll@science-development.de
Research for Sustainable Development - full paper (DIN-A4) - 68 pages (URL: http://www.fona.de/pdf/publikationen/research_for_sustainable_development.pdf)
Research for Sustainable Development - abstract (DIN-A5) - 20 pages (URL: http://www.fona.de/pdf/publikationen/research_for_sustainable_development_short.pdf)
Research for Sustainable Development
