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SMART SPECIALISATION STRATEGY (S3) IN THE ADRIATIC - IONIAN MACRO-REGIONAL STRATEGY (EUSAIR)

Prof. Phoebe Koundouri gave a speech on “Circular economy in national S3: the case of Greece” at the “SMART SPECIALISATION STRATEGY (S3) IN THE ADRIATIC - IONIAN ...

Aligning the European Recovery Plan and the European Semester with the SDGs: The role of knowledge institutions

Join Prof. Phoebe Koundouri on 22/10 @11-12:30 EEST for a discussion with chairs and managers of the European SDSN networks at SDSN Webinar: Aligning the European Recovery Plan and...

TED COUNTDOWN | TEDxEuropeanSustainabilityAcademy in Crete

Join Prof. Phoebe Koundouri on 17/10 @ 14:30 EEST for her speech on “Greening Energy in Greece” at TED COUNTDOWN | TEDxEuropeanSustainabilityAcademy in Crete, online ev...

2020 GSPP INTERNATIONAL ONLINE CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CHALLENGES OF COVID-19

Join Prof. Phoebe Koundouri on 16/10 @ 11:00 EEST for her keynote speech on “ketching Sustainability Transition in Europe: SDGs, European Green Deal, EU MFF and Recovery Plan...

2020 European Week of Regions and Cities, session: #EURegionsWeekUniversity: Localised Trends and Strategies for SDGs.

Join tomorrow @ 17:15 EEST Prof. Phoebe Koundouri for her speech on “Climate challenges and the need for a systemic economic change under the aegis of the UN Agenda 2030 (17 ...

Digital live event of egg - enter • grow • go & the Embassy of France in Greece | Connecting with the innovative ecosystem in France

Join Prof. Phoebe Koundouri on 13/10 @13:00- 13:40 for a discussion on “Promoting the Environmental innovation” at the Digital live event of egg - enter • grow &bu...

DENKRAUM - GOOD LIFE & SUSTAINABLE CITIES

On 9/10 @10:00- 12:30 Prof. Phoebe Koundouri will participate for a discussion on green ports practices at Denkraum - Good life & sustainable cities online event.

Beyond Boundaries: Realising the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

3rd General Assembly of our H2020COASTAL project

Nizami Ganjavi International Center Web-conference Exclusive High-Level Side Event to UN General Assembly

join Prof. Phoebe Koundouri on 23/9 @ 15:00- 17:00 (EEST), for a discussion on “SDG Challenges in Post COVID-19 Era” at the web- conference “The changing wor...

16th SDSN Leadership Council Meeting Virtual

On 24/9 @ 15:00 Prof. Phoebe Koundouri will give a speech on “The Energy Transition” at the 16th SDSN Leadership Council Meeting which will take place online.

Sustainable development and competition law Towards a Green Growth regulatory osmosis”, Hellenic Competition Commission

Join Prof. Phoebe Koundouri on 28/9 @ 16:40 for a discussion on “What is the Green Growth Agenda and what are its implications for the organization of the economy and public ...

International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD) 2020.UN SDSN Session

SDSN Greece is hosting a session on Day 1, 21 September 2020 at 16.00-18.00 EEST

ICSD 2020

Today @ 15:00- 16:00, Prof. Phoebe Koundouri will moderate the discussion on Multilateral Financing of the SDGs: African & Asian Experiences” at ICSD.

European Research and Innovation Days

Join Prof. Koundouri on 23/9 @17:00- 18:00 for her speech in the session: European Institute of Innovation & Technology Regional Innovation Scheme post-2020 at European Researc...

ICSD 2020- Job Opportunities and the Clean Energy Transition

Pls join Prof. Koundouri on 22/9 @ 23:00 EEST for a discussion on “Job Opportunities and the Clean Energy Transition” at ICSD.

Conference on Food, Water and Energy Solutions for Resilience in a Vulnerable World- Arava Institute (watch the video)

On 15/9, Prof. Phoebe Koundouri was a keynote speaker on “Sketching Sustainability Transition in Europe: Sustainable Development Goals, European Green Deal, EU Reco...

The Virtual Island Summit

Please join us live on September 11 at 7 am pst, 5 pm Athens time, where EarthFund's Board Director Phoebe Koundouri, will host a Political Roundtable of Island Leaders on...

EuroSun 2020: 13th International Conference on Solar Energy for Buildings and Industry

The first two days of EuroSun 2020: 13th International Conference on Solar Energy for Buildings and Industry.

EIT Climate-KIC Hub Greece will participate in LOOP ports project (funded by EIT Climate-KIC)

UN SDSN Senior Working Group for the Energy Transition

The second Meeting of the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Shipping and Ports

University Sector Support to UN Secretary-General’s

Call for a Decade of Action on the SDGs - 9 and 10 July 2020 UN GENERAL SECRETARY JEFF SACHS AND PROF. KOUNDOURI ARE AMONG THE SPEAKERS

Circular Economy in Balkan countries

Webinar, 9 July, 2020, 12:00-13:50 CET, organised by our CE BEACONS project.

Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals in Greece after the pandemic

On 7 June, Prof. Phoebe Koundouri participated to the Online public discussion: “Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals in Greece after the pandemic”, organise...

8th Regional Growth Conference 2-4 July Achaia Clauss, Patra

Prof. Phoebe Koundouri participated to two panels in the framework of this conference.

European Semester e-Conference on Greece – 2020

 Online, 1 & 2 July 2020, Organised by: The European Commission in collaboration with The Foundation for Economic & Industrial Research – IOBE.

Nizami Ganjavi International Center web conference on 2 July

On 2 July, Prof. Koundouri participated to the web conference entitled “The Changing World Order and its implications for Multilateralism” organised by the Nizami Ganja...

Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

Annual Conferences EAERE 25th Annual Conference 24 June 2020 - 27 June 2020 Location: Virtual Conference Organizer: Technische Universität Berlin

Business towards Circular Economy on 26th June 2020

Jun 26, 2020 03:30 PM in Sofia

1rst Meeting of UN SDSN Lancet Commission on COVID-19 on 23 June 2020

Prof. Phoebe Koundouri is member of Lancet Commission on COVID-19 , which is directed by UN SDSN and Columbia Sustainable Development Institute

2nd project meeting for Circular Learning Hub project

CL-HUB PROJECT MEETING on June 19th & ON-LINE WEB CONFERENCE on June 26th

Global Leadership in the 21st Century

Global Leadership in the 21st Century Strategies for Transformative Global Leadership e-Conference -- June 15-19, 2020

Introductory workshop of Pioneers into Practice

From 9th to 12th June, the introductory workshop of Pioneers into Practice took place online

Nizami WEBINAR - 3 June 2020

Prof. Koundouri participates to Nizami Ganjavi International Center Webinar 3 June 2020

International FDP (OE4BW) UNESCO Project, on Environment and Sustainability for 614 faculty from India

Speech of Prof. Koundouri  Topic: COVID 19 & Energy. The need for a Sustainable Recovery  

KICK -OFF meeting H2020 PRIMA AWESOME project

On 22th May 2020 the Kick-off Meeting of H2020 PRIMA AWESOME project (PRIMA Call 2019 Section 1 Farming RIA), took place.

Sensemaking workshop, online

On Monday 27th April, a Sensemaking workshop was organized by EIT Climate-KIC

LNG: A Compass for Sustainable Shipping in Eastern Mediterranean, Piraeus Annual Conference

On 26th February 2020, a conference on the latest news of the Poseidon Med II project was held at the Piraeus Port Authority

COASTAL (H2020) WORKSHOP

ICRE8 had the pleasure to welcome Work Package (WP) leaders and MALs leaders in Athens on the 18thand 19th of February.

DEEP DEMONSTRATION MARITIME HUBS INTENT WORKSHOP PORT OF PIRAEUS

On Friday 14th February the ‘Deep Demonstration workshop’ was held at the Port of Piraeus, hosted by the Piraeus Port Authority.

SINGLE USE PLASTIC FREE EVENT

On Tuesday 4th February, UN SDSN and Climate-KIC were present at the American College of Athens for the event on going Single-Use-Plastic Free co-organised by the Laskari...

Investing in the circular transition

On 22nd November 2019, Sporos Platform carried out a private, invitation-only Roundtable, titled “Investing in the Circular Transition”. 

Climathon Athens on 25th October 2019

Challenge: Creating bikeways in Athens as a solution to air pollution and climate change  Date: 25th October 2019 at 11.30am Venue: HFAISTOS Educational ...

EIT Awareness Day in Cyprus

On June 27th 2019, EIT Awareness Day in Cyprus organised by Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and it was hosted by...

4th Annual conference on “Smart cities-Digital Citizens-Go smart”

PREHealth International conference programme

Resilience as a parameter of urban design

On Wednesday June 5than event on Resilience and urban design was hosted by NTUA, Athens. Among the speakers were: Prof. Serraos, NTUA, Asst. Prof. Myrivili, University of Aegean, P...

Conference on the Energy Economics and Law for the launch of the new MSc in Energy Economics and Law

On the 27th March, the conference on the Energy Economics and Law for the launch of the new MSc in Energy Economics and Law took place at the School of Economics, Athens University...

Climate Change Symposium: Threats, Challenges, Solutions for Greece

  On Wednesday 3rd April 2019 "Climate Change Symposium: Threats, Challenges, Solutions for Greece"took place at the American College of Greece, DEREE Universi...

Signature programmes workshop

On May 3rd 2019, an interactive workshop on EIT Climate-KIC signature programmes hosted by EIT Climate-KIC in Amsterdam was attended by a member of UN SDSN Greece. The workshop aim...

EIT Climate-KIC Pioneers into Practice

EIT Climate-KIC Pioneers into Practice Introductory workshop organized by ICRE8 took place at ATHENA RC, Athens (Greece) from 15th to 17th May. The Introductory workshop help pione...

32nd Panhellenic Statistics Conference, The Science of Statistics and its contribution to the Sustainable Development

On May 31st32nd Panhellenic Statistics Conferencetook place in Ioannina. The Conference highlighted the role of Statistics in the implementation of the sustainable development agen...

SIMRA General Assembly

From June 10th to 12th 2019, our SIMRA H2020 Project Meeting organized by ICRE8 took place in ATHENA Research Centre in Athens! Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural A...

The General Assembly of the EU H2020 COASTAL project

Dr Ebun Akinsete and Alice Guittard, represented ICRE8 at the first General Assembly of the EU H2020 COASTAL project, which took place in Methoni, Messinia (Greece) from the 7th un...

Conference Offshore floating winds

On Friday, April 12, 2019, a conference on "Offshore floating wind energy in Greece: new opportunities, challenges and prospects" was held at Hilton hotel organized by No...

PowerUp! country final in Greece, by InnoEnergy

On Monday, April 15th2019, "PowerUp! country final in Greece!" organised by InnoEnergy took place at InnovAthens, Technopolis City of Athens, where it was presented the I...

COASTAL project

On the 2nd of May, to celebrate its 10 years anniversary, the Navarino Environmental Observatory (NEO), one of Icre8 partners on the EU H2020 COASTAL project, organized a seminar a...

Citizens united for the energy transition in Greece

On June 12th2019, a workshop on energy transition in Greece hosted by rainbow warrior boat of Greenpeace took place in Marina Zeas in Athens. The discussion was focused on energy c...

European Commission training course on sustainable management of ephimeral rivers: SMIRES

Athens Circular Forum-Symbiosis: Circular economy at the cities: the Greek case

Ex post evaluation of major projects supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Cohesion Fund between 2000 and 2013

04-05/03: Ex post evaluation of major projects supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Cohesion Fund between 2000 and 2013, European Commission, Brussels, Be...

Interreg MEDGRASPINNO project

10/04: Interreg MEDGRASPINNO project, TMEDE Prof. Dr. Phoebe Koundouri, AUEB, Director of ReSEES and Co-Chair of the EIT Climate – KIC Hub Greece talked about “the Bus...

Climate Change: Nature provides solutions

10/04: Climate Change: Nature provides solutions, Goulandris Natural History Museum, Athens On 10th April 2019, "Climate Change: Nature provides solutions" took place at...

Entrepreneurship in Higher Education and Research Commercialization

11/04: Entrepreneurship in Higher Education and Research Commercialization, Bodosakis Foundation Building, Athens On Thursday, April 11 2019, an event on Entrepreneurship in Highe...

Delphi Economic Forum: Innovating for Climate Resilience

Phoebe Koundouri chaired the session on Innovating for Climate Resilience, the main speakers of which were: - Andreas Papandreou, Professor of Environmental Economics, National &a...

Convergences Greece Forum

01-02/04: Convergences Greece Forum Convergences Greece Forum is the first platform for thought in Europe that aims at building new convergences between public, private, and solid...

Athens Science Festival

04/04: Athens Science Festival, Technopolis, Athens On Thursday 4th April 2019 "Athens Science Festival" took place at Technopolis, Athens, bringing all citizens close t...

7th Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists,

07-08/02: 7th Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Udine Italy 7th Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Environmental ...

Innovation for Climate Action: EIT Climate KIC meeting

20/03: Innovation for Climate Action: EIT Climate KIC meeting, Sofia, Bulgaria Prof. Phoebe Koundouri in Sofia (Bulgaria), speaking about Innovation for Climate Action a...

Business Innovation Greece Programme

27/03: Business Innovation Greece Programme, Piraeus Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Athens On 27th March 2019, another event took place at Piraeus Chamber of Commerce and Indus...

3 years “Resilience Athens”

06/03: 3 years “Resilience Athens”, Serafio City of Athens On 6th March 2019, "3 years Resilient Athens" took place at Serafeio organised by Prof. Lenio Myri...

Clean Energy for EU islands

05/04: Clean Energy for EU islands, Arion Hotel, Athens The event "Clean Energy for EU islands" on 5th April 2019 at Arion Hotel, Athens, brought close the islands with ...

5th GLOBAQUA Training Course: ‘Economics of Sustainable Water Management in accordance to the Water Framework Directive (WFD), the Millennium Ecosystems Assessment (MEA) and Sustainable Development Goals of the UN Agenda 2030’

The course will introduce the basic principles of resource economics related to water with focus on the Water Framework Directive and the Millennium Ecosystems Assessment. Topics c...

WORKSHOP: Innovative Proposals and Solutions in Aquaculture

WORKSHOP: Innovative Proposals and Solutions in Aquaculture Venue: ATHENA RC, Maroussi Date: 9th of February 2018 ATHENA RC, 9.2.2018 Aquaculture is the world's fastest-gro...

''The history and the future of the nuclear program of Iran'' - SDSN Greece Youth event

Within the established partnership between UN SDSN Greece Youth and SAFIA (Student Association for International Affairs), the academic event under the title '' The history...

Workshop: " Entrepreneurship for the Circular Economy"

Με ιδιαίτερη χαρά σας προσκαλούμε σε ημερίδα που διοργανώνεται από τη Σχολή Επιστημών Ανθρώπινης ...

JOIN THE BLUEBRIDGE WEBINAR: NEW  GENERATION TOOLS FOR AQUACULTURE

The Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of NKUA, the SMEs CITE and i2S and ICRE8 participate in the framework of the BLUEBRIDGE PROJECT which main aim is the brid...

ISBS 2018 International Sandy Beaches Symposium, May 2018, Crete, GR

2018 International Sandy Beaches Symposium: Linking knowledge to build integrated paradigms and face global change challenges The registration deadline is approaching! The I...

SURED 2018: Conference on Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics CALL FOR PAPERS

SURED 2018  Conference on Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics  Ascona (Switzerland), 3-7 June 2018 Deadline for paper submission:  January 31st, 2018 Co...

Globaqua Programmes of Measures Integration Workshop, 12 - 13 of September 2017, Athens

The Globaqua Project (FP7) Programmes of Measures Integration Workshop took place on 12thand 13th of September, 2017, in Maroussi, Greece. The workshop was hosted by ATHENA Re...

3rd International SDSN Mediterranean Conference | Official Launch of SDSN Greece, September 7 & 8, Athens, Greece

3rd International SDSN Mediterranean Conference | Official Launch of SDSN Greece, September 7 & 8, Athens, Greece

23rd Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists hosted by ICRE8

It is our pleasure to invite you to the 23rd Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 28 June – 1 July 2017, organized by ...

“Sustainability and Resource Valuation” workshop under the auspices of SDSN-Greece

An Advanced Policy Workshop in “Sustainability and Resource Valuation” will be held on 28 June 2017 in the historic Kostis Palamas Building (Akadimias 48) in the center...

EAERE supported event: Advanced Policy Workshop in “Sustainability and Resource Valuation”

The implementation of Sustainable Development, in general, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of Agenda 2030, in particular, presupposes a robust answer to the question: ...

Join the BLUEBRIDGE DATATHON on fisheries and aquaculture (Heraklion, Crete)

Ο διαγωνισμός χρήσης δεδομένων (datathon) ή/και προγραμματισμού με θέμα την αλιεία και τις υδατοκαλλιέ...

Livestream: Join the Think 20 Summit GLOBAL SOLUTIONS - May 29-30

With the Think 20 Summit GLOBAL SOLUTIONS  fast approaching, we want to inform you about the opportunity to follow our livestream this coming Monday(29 May) and Tues...

Το ΕΚ "Αθηνά" στο Mind the Lab!  - Σταθμός Δουκίσσης Πλακεντίας - 3 Φεβρουαρίου

Την Παρασκευή, 3 Φεβρουαρίου, η έρευνα και η επιστήμη ταξιδεύουν με το Μετρό της Αθήνας. Εντυπωσιακ...

ENHANCE project concludes with a webinar on Friday 13 January

The EU-funded ‘Enhancing risk management partnerships for catastrophic natural hazards in Europe’ (ENHANCE) has now officially ended. It has been a great project and a...

MARS-GLOBAQUA-SOLUTIONS Internal Workshop to be held in Sesimbra, Portugal in March

The MARS-GLOBAQUA-SOLUTIONS Internal Workshop “New predictive tools to improve river water management from local to European scale” will be held in Sesimbra, Portugal o...

The Economist Sustainability Summit for Southeast Europe and the Mediterranean entitled “Adapt or Die?”

We are glad to announce that the International Centre for Research on the Environment and the Economy (ICRE8) and UN SDSN Greece kindly support the organisation of The Economi...

ICRE8 Uncertainty & Research in Progress fall seminar series starts on Wednesday, November 02 @ ATHENA RIC

EAERE 2017

The 23rd annual scientific conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) took place in Athens, from 28 June to 1 July. The EAERE 2017 conf...

1st SITT SIMRA WORKSHOP

The Department of Strategic Environmental Analises at The Institute of Forest Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (IFE SAS) in cooperation with The James Hutton Institut...

ICRE8 - Athens Office of Resilience workshop

A workshop to investigate partnerships and future collaborations in events, projects and proposals between ICRE8 and the Athens Office of Resilience took place on 10 October 2016 a...

Prof. Michael Rauscher's presentation on “Demographic Change and Climate Change” - March 18th 2016 @ ICRE8

Prof. Dr. Michael Rauscher (Department of Economics, Universität Rostock) made a presentation on “Demographic Change and Climate Change” in the ICRE8 seminar ...

1st GLOBAQUA CONFERENCE; Managing The Effects Of Multiple Stressors On Aquatic Ecosystems Under Water Scarcity

This interdisciplinary conference is a platform for exchange and discus­sion of innovative scientific findings and methods in aquatic ecosys­tems research. It focuses on no...

EIT Climate-KIC Pioneers Local Managers meeting

On May 7th 2019, an interactive workshop on EIT Climate-KIC pioneers local managers hosted by EIT House in Brussels was attended by a member of UN SDSN Greece. The main goal of the...

EIT Climate-KIC Pioneers into Practice: Train the trainer, Multiburo Parliament, Brussels

EIT Climate-KIC Pioneers into Practice Train the trainer workshop took place at Multiburo Parliament, Brussels (Belgium) from 8th to 10th May. The Train the trainer workshop help c...

4th European Climate Change Adaptation Conference

From May 28th to 31st, the 4th European Climate Change Adaptation Conference took place in Lisbon, Portugal. There Dr. Ebun Akinsete participated in a panel on the Food-Water-Energ...

World Oceans Day 2019

On june 8th 2019, world oceans day took place in lesvos, organized by healing Lesvos. Lydia Stergiopoulou, researcher at ICRE8 spoke on the ecosystem services, presenting three pro...

Workshop "Towards carbon neutrality, the perspective of investors"

On May 15th, a workshop on carbon neutrality, organized by Innopaths took place at Electra Palace, Athens. Among the speakers were: Prof. Paul Ekins, University College London, Dir...

Climate change: Risks and Disaster management

On May 28th, Joël Guiot, research director at CNRS, gave a speech on climate change in French at the French Institut of Athens.

1st Summit on Gender Equality in Computing

On Friday June 7th, the 1st Summit on Gender Equality in Computing (GEC 2019) organised by ACM-W and supported by ATHENA RC was hosted by Kostis Palamas building in Athens, Greece....