Transatlantic Symposium on Sustainable Development

Chairpersons
Professor Walter Leal 
HAW Hamburg  & Manchester Metropolitan University 
Germany & United Kingdom
FTZ-Events (at) hamburg (dot) de
 
Dr. Julie Newman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Office of Sustainability
Cambridge, Massachusetts
United States
 j_newman (at) mit (dot) edu

• Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Research and Transfer Centre "Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management" 
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Office of Sustainability

Co-Chairs

• Professor Walter Leal, Head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management", Hamburg, Germany
• Dr. Julie Newman, Director of Sustainability, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
   

• Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)
• European School of Sustainability Science and Research (ESSSR)
• Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP)
• UK Consortium of Sustainability Research (UK-CSR)
• German Consortium of Sustainability Research (DEKONA)

The meeting aims to congregate representatives from universities and research organisations on the one hand, but also from companies and enterprises on the other, from Europe and North America, working on matters related to sustainable development in a higher education context. It also aims at providing a platform for the exchange of information, paving the way for technology transfer and networking.
Furthermore, the Symposium intends to provide a fertile basis upon which European and North American organisations may cooperate more closely in this key area.
 

The event be will of special interest to researchers, students, project managers, representatives of NGOs and enterprises working on sustainability in higher education, from Europe and from North America. In particular, small and medium-sized colleges, which are not often present in international events, will have in the Symposium, a good opportunity to present their work, and for deep interactions with like-minded experts from both regions.

The Symposium will offer experts from Europe and North American an opportunity to meet and discuss the wide range of approaches and methods which are currently being used -or which will be deployed in the future- in order to further the cause of sustainability in higher education. The experiences from the presenters will be documented and promoted in the book "North American and European Perspectives on Sustainability in Higher Education", to be published by Springer Nature. This is part of the World Sustainability Series,  the leading peer-reviewed book series on matters related to sustainable development. The peer-reviewed nature of the book means that contributions to them have been officially counting over the years for promotion and tenure purposes.

The Symposium is divided into four tracks dealing with strategic issues for sustainability in higher education: 

• Theme Cluster 1:  Sustainable Campus Operations 
• Theme Cluster 2: Sustainability and the Curriculum: teaching on, about and for sustainable development
• Theme Cluster 3:  Sustainability research
• Theme Cluster 4: Community engagement, cooperation

*    Each Plenary Session Presentation will take 20 minutes, with 10 additional minutes of Q&A.
*    Each Parallel Session Presentation will take 15 minutes, with 5 additional minutes of Q&A.

The Symposium will be held in two different venues, as follows:

Venue on 2nd October 2023:
Wong Auditorium, Tang Center Bldg E51,
2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA 02139

Please note that the official address of the Tang Center is 70 Memorial Ave, but the main entrance is located at 2 Amherst Street

Venue on 3rd and 4th October 2023:
La Sala de Puerto Rico, 2nd Floor, Stratton Student Center, Bldg W20, 84
Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139

Expressions of interest to attend the event, initially consisting of a 200 words abstract outlining the paper and with the full contact details of the author(s) should be sent to the organising team at:  FTZ-Events (at) hamburg (dot) de

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 30th May 2023. Full papers are due by 30th November 2023. The details will be discussed with the selected authors.

In other to offset some of the costs with the organisation of the event, a registration fee of US$ 400/ Euro 395 (plus taxes) will be charged per delegate. The fee also includes the coffee breaks and lunches during the days of the Symposium. The details on how to register will be sent to those authors whose abstracts have been accepted. For cancellations up to 40 days before the event, the full fees will be refunded. For cancellations up to 30 days before the event, a 50% refund may be possible. For cancellations less than 30 days before the event no refunds will be possible.

The registration is closed now!