A wide range of urban stakeholders are collaborating on experiments, living labs, testbeds, innovation districts, and projects to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. These activities are intended to produce new insights on how we can reinvent cities to be environmentally resilient, economically prosperous, and socially vibrant places. However, it is not clear how we can learn effectively from these activities and how they can be used to catalyse broader societal transformations.
- Date
- Tuesday 10 Sep 2024, 16:00 - 19:00
- Type
- Workshop
- Location
The Hague Conference Centre New Babylon
Please join us on 10 September at The Hague Conference Centre New Babylon for an engaging discussion with practitioners and researchers about the opportunities and challenges of learning in urban sustainability transformations. The event will provide an opportunity to reflect on how we are developing and supporting learning practices in our current work and how these practices can be improved to realise deep and long-term impacts. The event will include a brief introduction, keynote talks, and a roundtable discussion, followed by a networking reception with food and drinks.
Schedule
| 16:00-16:15 | Welcome |
| 16:15-16:45 | Keynote presentation: Luca Bertolini, University of Amsterdam, ‘Learning through Urban Experiments: Overcoming Resistance to Change’ |
| 16:45-17:15 | Keynote presentation: Eva Kunseler, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), ‘Making Urban Transformations Happen: Embedding Learning as Part of the Job’ |
| 17:15-18:00 | Discussion and Q&A with the audience |
| 18:00-19:00 | Networking reception with food and drinks |
Registration
The event is free of charge and is intended for practitioners and researchers who are working on sustainable urban transformations in all sectors (energy, climate, mobility, water, solid waste, consumption, health, governance, etc.).
Please register for the event by 27 August.
Register now!
Sponsor
This event is sponsored by the Swedish research project ‘Ecosystems of learning for urban sustainability transformations (TRANS-LEARN)’ in cooperation with the Erasmus Initiative Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity. The project involves a comparison of learning approaches in The Netherlands, Germany, Finland and Sweden. More information here: https://translearn.se
