The Sustainable Science Days will be held as a two-day event from Wednesday to Thursday on 16th-17th May 2018. Here you can see the programme and get the information how to registrate to the events.
Welcome to join us!
Programme 16th May 2018
Partnerships for sustainable solutions
Venue Think Corner Lounge (2nd floor)
Time 14.00-18.00
Stakeholder event
Registration
Event is in Finnish
Partnerships for sustainable solutions is an event where HELSUS and stakeholders meet. The event aims to foster collaboration between academia, cities, companies and startups, and contribute to solving the most pressing sustainability challenges through co-creation. After the event, participants should have an idea how to bridge the latest academic knowledge with innovation - and which great examples are already taking place.
During the event, participants are invited to work together on collaborative sustainability solutions within challenges identified within the HELSUS core themes of the Urban, the Global South, the Arctic, and Sustainable consumption and production.
Welcoming words, Jari Niemelä, Director, HELSUS
Keynote speech: Mari Pantsar, Director, Carbon-neutral circular economy, Sitra
Four viewpoints about the need for sustainable solutions:
- Urban: Carbon neutral cities?
Pekka Tuovinen, Senior Advisor, Sustainability, Neste Oyj, Esa Nikunen, Director of Environment Services, City of Helsinki and Sirkku Juhola, Associate Professor, University of Helsinki - Global South: Sustainable value chain
Susanna Horn, Life Cycle Manager, Outotec Oyj, Eija Ranta, university lecturer, University of Helsinki - Arctic areas
Tuuli Ojala, Senior Specialist, Ministry for Foreign Affais of Finland, Reetta Toivanen, professor, HELSUS - Sustainable consumption and production: Towards sustainable consumption
Anu Kaukovirta-Norja, SVP Research and Technology, Valio Oyj, Virpi Jonson, Innovation Manager, Valio Oyj, Annukka Valkeapää, Conservation Officer, WWF, Annukka Berg, Senior Researcher, SYKE and Petteri Repo, researcher, University of Helsinki
Co-creation workshop around the four HELSUS themes
Pitches from researchers, startups and student teams on sustainable innovation
Get-together with informal networking (wine and snacks)
Programme 17th May 2018
Sustainability Science – Discipline or something else?
Morning plenary session
Venue: University of Helsinki, Main building, Small Festive Hall
Time: 9.00-12.10
Open for everybody, no registration needed.
Event is in English
Watch the plenary session online
9.00 Opening, Rector Jukka Kola, University of Helsinki
9.10 Sustainability science: its disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity, Prof. Uskali Mäki, University of Helsinki
9.50 Coffee break
10.10 Notes from the Frontlines: why Sustainability Science is more than just another discipline, Dr. Katharine N. Farrell, Humboldt University Berlin
10.50 Prospects for Interdisciplinarity in the Sustainability Sciences: Challenges and Solutions, Prof. Miles MacLeod, University of Twente
11.30 The limits of extra-academic transdisciplinarity in sustainability science,
Prof. Janne Hukkinen, University of Helsinki
12.10-13.15 Lunch (No host)
Interdisciplinarities in Sustainability Science
Academic group discussions
Venue: Metsätalo Hall 6 (B317) & Group Work Rooms
Time: 13.15-17.30
Registration
Event is in English
13.15 Short intro to group discussion and instructions, Henrik Thorén, Lund University/HELSUS fellow
Participants work in groups integrating the morning session themes and the HELSUS thematic issues (each group having a moderator and a reporter, who takes notes of the group work).
13.45 Group discussions (coffee between the discussions)
- Sustainability Science methodologies/theories
- Interdisciplinarity in Sustainability science of the Arctic
- Interdisciplinarity in Sustainable consumption and production research
- Interdisciplinarity in Sustainability science of the Global South
- Interdisciplinarity in Sustainability science of the Urban
15.15 Reporting back and summing up, Michiru Nagatsu, University of Helsinki
16.15 Wine and snacks
Registration
Stakeholder event May 16th
Register here. The last day to register is 9th May and for this event the total capacity of participants is limited.
Plenary session Thursday May 17th
The event is open for all without registration. Can't make it on Thursday? Watch the steam online https://www.helsinki.fi/fi/unitube/video/20864!
Academic group discussions Thursday May 17th
Register here. The last day to register is 10th May and for this event the total capacity of participants is limited.