Market for sustainable development in higher education
The Market for Sustainable Development in higher education will take place in the Baudouin Building in Brussels on Friday, March 5th. The Vrije Universiteit Brussel is also represented with two tables and two round-table workshops:
- Table 1: VUB and UAB: Sustainable together
The objective is to provide an overview of sustainable initiatives that are running at the VUB, relating to both personnel and students of the educational institution.
Initiatives: EcoTeams and Ecolleagues, non-profit organisation UCOS, Together Sustainable Taskforce, Energy efficiency cross-talk project, VUB goes green, Bike workgroup and VUB biking point (Dimitri Devuyst). This will possibly also include Scientific Communication.
- Table 2: KLIMOS, Environment & Climate for development cooperation and Sustainable Higher Education in the South (Tom Waas)
- Round-table workshop 1: Course in sustainable materials, with last year’s practical demonstration of recycling a PC (Hubert Rahier).
- Round-table workshop 2: Sustainable construction: best case in Flanders: analysis, indicators, approach and processing of the best case in Flanders (case to be determined) (Marleen Wynants)
Discover the secret behind the best practical examples
How can sustainable development be integrated into higher education? Or, in other words, how can higher education search for and pinpoint maintainable solutions relating to current ecological, economic, cultural, ethical, technological and social-political issues? And how are the three P's (people, planet, prosperity) integrated into Flemish colleges and universities?
Programme
10 a.m. Official opening of the market and registration for the round-table sessions
10:30 a.m. Is PPP still OK!? Education with regard to sustainable development
11 a.m. First round-table session – the market is open continuously!
12:15 p.m. Lunch
12:45 p.m. Second round-table session
2:15 p.m. Third round-table session
4 p.m. End of the market
Practical information
- Friday, March 5th, 2010 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
- Location: Boudewijngebouw (Baudouin Building), Boudewijnlaan 30, 1000 Brussels
- Please visit the Markt Duurzame Ontwikkeling website for further information.
- Registration is free of charge, but the number of places is limited: Please register by forwarding an e-mail to bert.degroote@lne.vlaanderen.be with the following data: name, title, organisation/educational institution, vegetarian/non-vegetarian.
- For more information: elke.vanwildemeersch@lne.vlaanderen.be or tel.: 02-553 76 88
The Market is a joint initiative of Ecocampus (Flemish Government, Environment, Nature and Energy Department), Sustainable Higher Education in Flanders (DHO Vlaanderen) and Social Economy at the Campus.
The European Parliament's Green Credentials – An analysis of the EP and co-decision for the environment.
The Institute for European Studies (IES) at the Vrije Universitetit Brussel and the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) kindly invite you to their next Environmental Policy Forum on 8 March. Charlotte Burns will present the results of a study on the European Parliament's green credentials in the co-decision procedure in the 2000s, which investigated whether the European Parliament is an environmental champion and whether co-decision has been good for the environment. Ms. Burns worked in the European Parliament as a Research Assistant to the Chair of the Environment Committee for two years before undertaking her PhD at the University of Sheffield. She currently teaches at the University of Leeds.
Commenting on Ms. Burns presentation will be Professor Doctor Ludwig Krämer, Honorary professor for European environmental law at the universities of Bremen and Copenhagen and visiting professor at University College, London and working with the Commission for three decades as Head of Unit of Legal Affairs, Waste, waste management and environmental governance in DG Environment.
Practical information
- The event will take place on Monday 8 March 2010, from 12.00 to 14.00 at the IES, Pleinlaan 15, 5th floor, 1050 Brussels
- The programme will start at 12.00 with a lunch reception.
- The presentations will be followed by an open discussion.
- Participation is free of charge and open to all, but due to space limitations, registration is required at the website of IES
Cities & Migration Research Seminars
Members of the Cities & Migration Group of the UAB Urban Studies Network present their recent research results and ongoing research activities. The research seminars will take place at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Campus Etterbeek), once a month on Thursdays from 12 – 2 pm:
- 25 March 2010
Brussels! (Eric Corijn Eefje Vloeberghs) – Room D1.06
- 22 April 2010
Language and migration. A multicultural reality in a bilingual straitjacket (Rudi Janssens) – Room D2.14
- 20 May 2010
Beyond national models of integration. Immigrant integration policies of the Belgian regions (Ilke Adam) – Room D2.14
You are all kindly invited. More information can be found on the website of Cities and Migration and in this flyer (linken aan pdf Cities and Migration)
Contact: anne.winter@vub.ac.be