Programa 

 Tuesday

23 November

12.00-16.00

Registration

16.30-17.15

Welcome Address

Chair: Antoni Giro Roca, Rector UPC and GUNI President

• Georges Haddad, Director Higher Education Division, UNESCO

• Konrad Osterwalder, Rector UNU (Videoconference)

• Ángel Gabilondo, Ministry of Education, Spain (TBC)

• Representative from the Government of Catalonia (TBC)

17.30-19.00

Opening Session

• Johan Rockström,Executive Director SEI, Sweden (TBC)
• Claudio Naranjo, Director SAT-Educa Programme, Chile
• Aline Bory Adams, Chief of Section, UNESCO ESD Programme, France

 Wednesday

24 November

09.00-10.00

Plenary Session on Actual Trends on Higher Education and Sustainability

Chair: Agustí Pérez Foguet, UPC Commissioned for SD, Spain

Keynote Speakers:

• Daniella Tilbury, University of Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

• Walter Leal, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany

10.30-13.00

Parallel Sessions on Advancing Higher Education and Sustainability in the Regions

Higher Education and Sustainability in Africa Sub-Saharan

• Regional Speaker: Heila Lotz-Sisitka, Rhodes Unviversity, South Africa

   

• Regional Project: Goolam Mohamedbhai, Former Secretary General of AAU

Chair: Abdel Momeim Osman, UNESCO Office Beirut, Lebanon

• Regional Speaker: Tayseer Al Noaimi, Former Ministre of Education, Jordan

Higher Education and Sustainability in Asia and the Pacific

• Regional Speaker: Osamu Abe, ESD Research Centre at Rikkyo University, Japan, and Ko Nomura, Graduate School of Environmental Studies at Nagoya University, Japan

• Regional Network: Zinaida Fadeeva, UNU-ESD Programme, Japan

• Regional Speaker: Jos Rikers, Open University, Netherlands

• Regional Network: Friedrich M. Zimmermann, European Network for Sustainability in Higher Education, Austria

• Regional Speaker: Tarah Wright, Dalhousie University, Canada

• Regional Network: Paul Rowland, Executive Director of AASHE, USA

• Regional Speaker: Miguel Ángel Chacón Veliz

• Regional Network: Laura Ortiz, General Secretary COMPLEXUS, Mexico
  

13.15-14.45

Lunch

14.30-15.30

Poster Session

16.00-18.00

Parallel Sessions on Innovative Practices in Higher Education and Sustainability

• University Appraisal for Diversity, Innovation and Change towards Sustainable Developmen

• The Role of Community-University Research Partnerships and Science Shops in Meeting the Challenges of Sustainability and Poverty Alleviation

• Higher Education, Cities and Sustainable Development

• Parallel Session on Innovative Practices 1

• Parallel Session on Innovative Practices 2
• Parallel Session on Innovative Practices 3
• Parallel Session on Innovative Practices 4
• Parallel Session on Innovative Practices 5

20.00-21.30

Dinner

Thursday

25 November

09.00-10.15

Plenary Session on Emerging Issues and Challenges to Move Forward: from Understanding to Action

• Arjen Wals, Wageningen University, Netherlands

10.30-13.00

Parallel Workshops on Emerging Issues and Challenges to Move Forward: from Understanding to Action 

13.15-14.45

Lunch

14.30-15.30

Poster Session

15.30-17.00

Plenary Session on the Presentation of the Workshops’ Conclusions

17.00-18.00

Closing Session

• Sonia Bahri, Chief, Section for International Cooperation in Higher Education, Division of Higher Education, UNESCO (TBC).

• Sjur Bergan, Head of Higher Education and Research Division of the Council of Europe.